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.

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.

[14] The best known athlete to represent Bergens TF is Johan Christian Evandt, who dominated the standing jumps.

Synnøva Reiakvam, later married Borgen, became Norwegian high jump champion in 1955 and 1957, and also won medals in 1956 and 1958.