Idrettsforeningen Tønsberg-Kameratene is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

sports club from

Tønsberg Tønsberg , historically Tunsberg, is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, eastern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak. The administrative ce ...

Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered th ...

. It has sections for

boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

sport wrestling Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, th ...

and

weightlifting Weightlifting generally refers to activities in which people lift Weight training#Equipment, weights, often in the form of dumbbells or barbells. People lift various kinds of weights for a variety of different reasons. These may include various t ...

General history

The club was founded on 10 October 1917. In November 1981 it lost its

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

section, as it merged with Tønsbergs TF to form

Tønsberg FIK Tønsberg Friidrettsklubb is a Norwegian track and field club from Tønsberg, Vestfold. Organization On 25 November 1981 it was established as a merger of the athletics departments of Tønsbergs TF with IF Tønsberg-Kameratene. This was the fift ...

. In 1985 the

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

section merged with Tønsbergs TF to form Tønsberg FK.

Current sports

Weightlifter Ruth Kasirye represents the club.

Athletics

The club has had many athletes who competed on national level.

Rune Nilsen Rune Nilsen (15 September 1923 – 19 July 1998) was a Norwegian triple jumper. He represented IF Tønsberg-Kameratene and IL i BUL. At the 1952 Summer Olympics he finished fifth in the triple jump final with a jump of 15.13 metres. At the 1950 ...

became

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

champion in 1949 and won the bronze in 1946. He also became

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

champion in 1946, 1947 and 1949 and won the silver in 1948. In the

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

, Andreas Larsen took silver medals in 1950 and 1951. Per Steen Andersen took a bronze medal in the

standing long jump The standing long jump, also known as the standing broad jump, is an athletics event. It was an Olympic event until 1912. It is one of three standing variants of track and field jumping events, which also include the standing high jump and ...

in 1962. The club itself hosted the Norwegian Championships in Standing Jumps in 1958. Kåre Johansen became national

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

champion in 1951, and Thor Smith became national

800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the ...

champion in 1976. Åse Svinsholt Smith won 800 metres silvers in 1973 and 1975 and a bronze in 1981, as well as a 1500 metres bronze in 1975. For the history after 1981, see

References

Official site
Sports clubs and teams in Norway Sport in Vestfold og Telemark Tønsberg Sports clubs and teams established in 1917 Defunct football clubs in Norway Defunct athletics clubs in Norway 1917 establishments in Norway {{athletics-club-stub