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Torleif Torkildsen

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Torleif Torkildsen
Torleif Torkildsen (left) and Jack Nielsen (right) in the 1929 Davis Cup Tie against Hungary in Oslo
Country (sports)Norway
Born(1882-05-12)12 May 1882
Died14 October 1944(1944-10-14) (aged 62)
PlaysRight-handed
Singles
Career titles5 (national), 1 (international)
Team competitions
Davis Cup2nd round (Europe) (1930, 1931)
Last updated on: 21 February 2013.
Olympic medal record
Men's Gymnastics
Bronze medal – third place 1912 Stockholm Team, Swedish system

Torleif Torkildsen (Norwegian pronunciation: [toːrlæɪf toːrkɪlsn̩];[stress and tone?] 12 May 1892 – 14 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]

References

  1. ^ "Torleif Torkildsen". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b "Tennis". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Stockholm, Sweden: Gustaf Zethelius. 1927. ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  4. ^ "tennis – norgesmestere utendørs i single" [Tennis outdoors singles champions]. Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norway: Kunnskapsforlaget. 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2013.

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