At the Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936, he did not win a medal after finishing fourth in the 8 metre class competition.

He finished his Olympic career in 1948 on the 6 metre class with his fourth medal, and second bronze, as part of the crew on the Ali Baba II.

In the early 1920s, the Holm boatyard at Gamleby designed and built a number of boats in the Skerry Cruiser (or Square Metre Rule) Class.

[3] In 2014 it was reported that a new J-Class hull, Svea, was under construction at the Freddie Bloemsma Aluminiumbouw shipyard in the Netherlands to an original design by Tore Holm dating from 1937.

[5] During racing in the Superyacht Challenge Antigua in 2020 she was in collision with fellow J-class competitor Topaz.