Norway at the Paralympics

Norway at the
Paralympics
IPC code NOR
NPC Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports
Website www.idrett.no (in Norwegian)
Summer appearances
Winter appearances

Norway has participated in every edition of both the Summer and Winter Paralympics, except the second Summer Games in 1964. It was one of the seventeen countries to take part in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, where it sent a delegation of eleven athletes. Norway was the host country of both the 1980 Winter Paralympics, in Geilo, and the 1994 Winter Paralympics, in Lillehammer.[1]

Norwegian athletes have won a total of 584 Paralympic medals, of which 234 were gold, 194 silver and 156 bronze. 315 of these (including 134 of the gold) have been won at the Winter Games. As of 2010, Norway is the most successful country of all time at the Winter Paralympics, and ranks twelfth on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table (for Summer and Winter Games combined).[2]

Norway has topped the medal chart on four occasions at the Winter Games: in 1980, 1988, 1994 and 1998. It finished in the top ten in every edition of the Winter Games until 2002, included, then dropped to 12th in 2006 and 2010.[3]

Norway boasts some of the world’s most successful Winter Paralympians of all time:[4]

  • Ragnhild Myklebust has won medals in every event she has ever participated in, in cross-country skiing, ice sledge speed racing and biathlon. Between 1988 and 2002, she won 27 medals, of which 22 were gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze.
  • Cato Zahl Pedersen has represented Norway at both the Summer and Winter Paralympics. He competed in both in 1980, making a perfect Paralympic début by entering four events in athletics, three in alpine skiing, one in cross-country skiing, and winning gold in all seven. Between 1980 and 1994, he won 14 medals in these sports, of which 13 were gold and 1 silver.
  • Erling Trondsen competed in swimming from 1976 to 1992. He swam in 22 events, and won medals in 20 of them: 13 gold, 6 silver, and 1 bronze.
  • Terje Loevaas took part in 13 events in cross-country skiing between 1980 and 1994, and won medals in all of them: 10 gold and 3 silver. During the same period, he also won 5 medals in athletics: 2 silver and 3 bronze.

Medal tallies

Summer Paralympics

Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking
1960 Summer Paralympics934166th
1964 Summer Paralympicsdid not participate
1968 Summer Paralympics531913th
1972 Summer Paralympics1551122nd
1976 Summer Paralympics9641916th
1980 Summer Paralympics151383610th
1984 Summer Paralympics2931309011th
1988 Summer Paralympics1111143623rd
1992 Summer Paralympics131373310th
1996 Summer Paralympics9742017th
2000 Summer Paralympics2671540th
2004 Summer Paralympics311538th
2008 Summer Paralympics133743rd
2012 Summer Paralympics323835th
2016 Summer Paralympics323832nd

Winter Paralympics

Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking
1976 Winter Paralympics732124th
1980 Winter Paralympics232110541st
1984 Winter Paralympics151313413rd
1988 Winter Paralympics252114601st
1992 Winter Paralympics554147th
1994 Winter Paralympics292213641st
1998 Winter Paralympics18913401st
2002 Winter Paralympics1036193rd
2006 Winter Paralympics113512th
2010 Winter Paralympics132612th
2014 Winter Paralympics121411th
2018 Winter Paralympics134814th

See also

References

  1. ↑ Norway at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  2. ↑ Norway at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  3. ↑ Norway at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  4. ↑ Norway at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
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