Arthur Emil Tokle (August 16, 1922 – March 3, 2005) was a Norwegian-born American ski jumper who competed for the United States at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, finishing 18th in the individual large hill event.
Torger Tokle, Art's older brother, came to the U.S. in 1939 and gained sudden fame before he was killed in Italy as a ski trooper in 1945.
[4] Arthur Tokle won his first national championship as a teenager and served in the Kings Guard before immigrating to America in 1947.
Tokle carried the American flag during the opening ceremonies of the 1958 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland and competed in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.
[6][7] In 1948, Tokle married Oddfrid Larsen and settled in Lake Telemark, New Jersey, a semi-rural community favored by Scandinavian immigrants.