Løkken Idrettsforening is a Norwegian sports club from

Løkken Verk Løkken Verk (or simply ''Løkken'') is a village in Orkland Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located south of the village of Svorkmo, east of the village of Bjørnli, and north of the municipal center of Meldal (village), Meld ...

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association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

speed skating Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marathon speed skat ...

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Nordic skiing Nordic skiing encompasses the various types of skiing in which the toe of the ski boot is fixed to the binding in a manner that allows the heel to rise off the ski, unlike alpine skiing, where the boot is attached to the ski from toe to heel. Re ...

. It was founded on 21 November 1896 as ''Meldalskogen SL''. The name was changed to ''Løkken IL'' on 30 March 1898. The name was changed to ''Løkken IF'' on 26 July 1947 as two clubs merged with Løkken IL. One club was ''IF Thor'', founded in 1918 and incorporating the short-lived ''Løkken AIL'' (1924–1926). ''IF Thor'' was a member of the Workers' Confederation of Sports, but later joined the Red Sport federation. When they did that, a new Workers' Confederation of Sports club was founded by the name ''SK Fjell'' in 1930. This was the third club to participate in the 1947 merger. Løkken IL was founded as a Nordic skiing club, and also participated in cycling and speed skating. IF Thor concentrated on football and skiing, but also participated in swimming, track and field, cycling and sport shooting. SK Fjell concentrated on skiing and football, and was also a practitioner of swimming, bandy, boxing and race walking, and in 1945 it added handball for women. SK Fjell and IF Thor played each other in a women's football match in 1939, perhaps the first of its kind in Norway. In addition to these clubs, chess was played at Løkken Verk, by the club ''Løkken SK''. SK Fjell was the dominant club at the time of the merger, while IF Thor struggled. Skiers included Kåre Vaslag and the five brothers Henry, Torger, Kyrre, Egil and Arthur E. Tokle. Løkken IL members had included the World Championships (

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respectively) participants Rudolf Kojan and John Sagvold. Some of these continued after the Second World War. In the 1950 World Championships Arthur Tokle participated together with Norwegian Vidar Lindboe-Hansen and Swede Kåre Karlsson who together with his brother Evert Karlsson had represented Løkken in their youth. The best ski jumper in newer times was Kurt Børset. Vidar Løfshus has one World Cup start in skiing. Speed skater

Jan Egil Storholt Jan Egil Storholt (born 13 February 1949) is a former speed skater from Norway. He was born in Løkken Verk which at the time was part of the Meldal municipality. Biography Together with Amund Sjøbrend, Sten Stensen, and Kay Stenshjemmet, Jan ...

is from Løkken Verk. Stig Berge was an able orienteer while orienteering was practiced for a period in Løkken. The club has dropped several sports from its roster, and only football, skiing and speed skating is left. The men's football team played in the Third Division, the fourth tier of Norwegian football from

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. The club does not currently field a senior team, only some children's teams. The clubs had good ski jumping hills and good trails for cross-country skiing. On 4 July 1954 Løkken IF opened a decent field for football and track and field. In 1997 the track was demolished, as an artificial turf was paid for by the local corporation, Orkla. The speed skating arena is Granatjønna.

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External links

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