Torleif Torkildsen

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{{short description|Norwegian gymnast and tennis player}}

{{ Infobox tennis biography

| name = Torleif Torkildsen

| image = Torleif Torkildsen and Jack Nielsen.jpg

| caption = Torleif Torkildsen (left) and Jack Nielsen (right) in the 1929 Davis Cup Tie against Hungary in Oslo

| country = Norway

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1882|5|12}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1944|10|14|1882|5|12}}

| death_place =

| plays = Right-handed

| singlestitles = 5 (national), 1 (international)

| Team = yes

| DavisCupresult = 2nd round (Europe) (1930, 1931)

| updated = 21 February 2013

}}

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{{MedalSport|Men's Gymnastics}}

{{MedalBronze|1912 Stockholm | Team, Swedish system}}

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Torleif Torkildsen ({{IPA|no|toːrlæɪf toːrkɪlsn̩}};{{fix|text=stress and tone?|date=July 2017}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/30856 |title=Torleif Torkildsen |work=Olympedia |access-date=15 April 2021}}

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.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. 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.{{cite journal

|title = Tennis

|location = Stockholm, Sweden

|url = https://runeberg.org/svda/1927/0215.html

|access-date = 21 February 2013

|year = 1927

|publisher = Gustaf Zethelius

|journal = Svenska Dagbladet

|issn = 1101-2412

|language=Swedish

}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://snl.no/tennis/norgesmestere_utend%C3%B8rs_i_single|work=Store norske leksikon|year=2012|title=tennis – norgesmestere utendørs i single|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|trans-title=Tennis outdoors singles champions|language=Norwegian|location=Oslo, Norway|accessdate=21 February 2013}}