Torleif Torkildsen
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Torleif Torkildsen (Script error: No such module "IPA".;Template:Category handlerTemplate:Category handler[<span title="Script error: No such module "string".">stress and tone?]Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 12 May 1892 – 7 October 1944) was a Norwegian gymnast and tennis player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Norwegian gymnastics team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event.[1]
In tennis he was a member of the Norway Davis Cup team, in which he granted Norway's first victorious rubber in the tie against Hungary in 1929 by beating Imre Takáts.[2] Prior to entering the Davis Cup in 1927 Norway competed in the Nordisk Cup, an annual four-nation Scandinavian tennis team cup, in which he granted Norway's only won match against Sweden's Curt Östberg.[3] The same year in August he won an international tournament in Oslo meeting Östberg again in the final.[3] In national competition he was a five-time tennis champion between 1926 and 1930.[4]
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- ↑ Béla Kehrling, ed. (25 May 1929). "Osloi levél [Letter from Oslo]" (in Hungarian). Tennisz és Golf (Budapest, Hungary: Bethlen Gábor írod. és Nyomdai Rt) I (2): 35. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
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- 1892 births
- 1944 deaths
- Norwegian male artistic gymnasts
- Norwegian male tennis players
- Gymnasts at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts for Norway
- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen