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May 12, 1892 Died on 14 Oct 1944 (aged 52)

Norwegian tennis player

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  • Torleif Torkildsen (Norwegian pronunciation: [to?rlæ?f to?rk?lsn?]; May 12, 1892 – October 14, 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. 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.
  • 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.
  • The same year in August he won an international tournament in Oslo meeting Östberg again in the final.
  • In national competition he was a five-time tennis champion between 1926 and 1930.

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