Torleif Torkildsen (; 12 May 1892 – 14 October 1944) was a

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and tennis player who competed in the

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. 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

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, in which he granted Norway's first victorious rubber in the tie against

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in 1929 by beating

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.Béla Kehrling, ed. (25 May 1929). "Osloi levél etter 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. 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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* * 1892 births 1944 deaths Norwegian male artistic gymnasts Norwegian male tennis players Gymnasts at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub