Bergens TF
Bergens Turnforening, often shortened to Bergens Turn is a Norwegian sports club from Bergen, founded in 1882. It has sections for athletics, orienteering, gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics. The biggest international success has come in gymnastics, where the club had multiple Olympic champions before the Second World War. In the same period the club saw its heyday in Norwegian athletics; it is now a feeder team of IL Gular. General history The club was founded on 5 March 1882, among others by Johan Martens. He was a sportive pioneer who chaired the club from 1882 to 1888 and 1892 to 1897, and also the Norges Turn- og Gymnastikkforbund from 1899 to 1911 and the Norwegian National Confederation of Sports from 1910 to 1914. Gymnastics Olympic medal winners include Sigvard Sivertsen (1908, team and 1912, free system team), Bjarne Johnsen (1912, free system team), Knud Leonard Knudsen (1912, free system team), Tor Lund (1912, free system team), Hans Beyer (1912, free system team), Sigurd Jørgensen (1912, free system team), Nils Opdahl (1912, free system team), Jacob Opdahl (1912, free system team and 1920, free system team), Lauritz Wigand-Larsen (1920, free system team), Jakob Erstad (1920, free system team), and Otto Johannessen (1920,