Career
In August 1928 at the same stadium he jumped 14.11 metres in the triple jump, another career best. At the 1928 Summer Olympics he competed in the long and triple jump. He did not hold the triple jump club record in Hamar Illinois, as Lauritz G. Bryhn had jumped 14.28 metres in 1921. chaired the club Hamar Illinois from 1946 to 1947.
Together with Guri Bakke (1910–1989) he had the son Borger Arildssøn (b 1937), a jurist and banker.