| Npc: | NOR |
| Npcname: | Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports |
| Games: | Summer Paralympics |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Website: | |
| Location: | Rio de Janeiro |
| Competitors: | 25 |
| Sports: | 10 |
| Flagbearer: | Bjørnar Erikstad |
| Rank: | 32 |
| Gold: | 3 |
| Silver: | 2 |
| Bronze: | 3 |
| Appearances: | auto |
Norway competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. They won a total of eight medals; three gold, two silver and three bronze. Sarah Louise Rung led the team by winning five medals in swimming; two gold, one silver and two bronze.
See main article: article and Disability sport classification. Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[1] [2] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.[3]
| Medals by sport | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | Total | ||||
| bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | 2 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | 1 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | 3 | 6 | ||
| bgcolor=#f7f6a8 | 1 | bgcolor=#dce5e5 | 1 | bgcolor=#ffdab9 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Total | bgcolor=gold | 3 | bgcolor=silver | 2 | bgcolor=#c96 | 3 | 8 | |
See main article: article and Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
|-|align=left|Morten Johannessen|align=left|Men's individual compound open|648|24|
L 136–143|colspan=4|did not advance|17|}
See main article: article and Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Ida Yessica Nesse | Women's discus throw F44 | 27.08 | 7 | ||
| Runar Steinstad | Men's javelin throw F44 | 50.78 | 11 | ||
See main article: article and Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
See main article: article and Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left rowspan=2 | Glenn Johansen | Men's road race C3 | 2:00:56 | 25 |
| Men's time trial C3 | 45:47.58 | 13 |
See main article: article and Equestrian at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The country qualified to participate in the team event at the Rio Games.[4]
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | ||||
| Jens Lasse Dokkan | Cypres | Individual Championship test grade Ia | 70.087 | 9 | |
| Heidi Løken | Armano | Individual Championship test grade IV | 62.333 | 7 | |
| Individual Freestyle test grade IV | 66.900 | 6 | |||
| Ann Cathrin Lubbe | Donatello | Individual Championship test grade III | 72.878 | ||
| Individual Freestyle test grade III | 73.800 | ||||
| Birgitte Reitan | Steffi Graf | Individual Championship test grade Ia | 68.130 | 13 | |
| Athlete | Horse | Event | Individual score | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Score | Rank | |||||
| Jens Lasse Dokkan | See above | Team | 70.652 | 70.087 | 140.739 | 422.375 | 6 |
| Heidi Løken | 64.238 # | 62.333 # | 126.571 | ||||
| Ann Cathrin Lubbe | 72.237 | 72.878 | 145.115 | ||||
| Birgitte Reitan | 68.391 | 68.130 | 136.521 | ||||
See main article: article and Rowing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top eight finish at the 2015 FISA World Rowing Championships in a medal event. Norway qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the AS Women's Single Sculls event with a third-place finish in a time of 05:31.940.[5] [6]
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage
See main article: article and Sailing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Norway qualified a boat for two of the three sailing classes at the Games through their results at the 2014 Disabled Sailing World Championships held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Places were earned in the solo 2.4mR event and a crew also qualified for the three-person Sonar class.[7]
| Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | M* | |||||
| Bjørnar Erikstad | 2.4mR | 4 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 52 | 5 | ||
| Per Eugen Kristiansen Marie Solberg Aleksander Wang-Hansen | Sonar | 5 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 54 | 5 | ||
See main article: article and Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
The first opportunity to qualify for shooting at the Rio Games took place at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships in Suhl. Shooters earned spots for their NPC. Norway earned a qualifying spot at this event in the R6 – 50m Air Pistol Mixed SH1 event as a result of the performance Ove Foss. Norway also earned a spot in the R5 – 10m Air Rifle Prone Mixed SH2 based on Heidi Kristin Sørlie-Rogne's performance. Norway's third spot was earned by Sonja Jennie Tobiassen in the R4 – 10m Air Rifle Standing Mixed SH2 event. Amanda Dybendal earned Norway's third spot for women and fourth overall after her performance in the R5 – 10m Air Rifle Prone Mixed SH2 event.[8] [9] [10]
The last direct qualifying event for Rio in shooting took place at the 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup in Fort Benning in November. Monica Lillehagen earned a qualifying spot for their country at this competition in the R2 Women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event.[9] [11]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Semifinal | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Amanda Dybendal | Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH1 | 626.5 | 30 | did not advance | ||
| Mixed 50 m air rifle prone SH1 | 606.9 | 27 | did not advance | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Paul Aksel Johansen | Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH1 | 627.2 | 28 | did not advance | ||
| Mixed 50 m air rifle prone SH1 | 611.3 | 16 | did not advance | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Anne-Cathrine Kruger | Women's 10 m air pistol SH1 | 362-5x | 10 | did not advance | ||
| Mixed 25 m pistol SH1 | 522-6x | 29 | did not advance | ||||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Monica Lillehagen | Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH1 | 618.5 | 41 | did not advance | ||
| Women's 10 m air rifle standing SH1 | 402.9 | 8 Q | 119.3 | 6 | |||
| Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 | 547-11x | 13 | did not advance | ||||
| Heidi Kristin Sørlie-Rogne | Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2 | 629.2 | 19 | did not advance | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Sonja Jennie Tobiassen | Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2 | 627.7 | 25 | did not advance | ||
| Mixed 10 m air rifle standing SH2 | 624.0 | 21 | did not advance | ||||
See main article: article and Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=4 | Andreas Skår Bjørnstad | 400 m freestyle S7 | 4:59.23 | 4 Q | 4:53.61 | |
| 50 m butterfly S7 | 34.77 | 12 | did not advance | |||
| 100 m breaststroke SB6 | 1:28.78 | 4 Q | 1:26.07 | 4 | ||
| 200 m individual medley SM7 | 2:50.76 | 8 Q | 2:48.06 | 8 | ||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Adam Ismael Wenham | 200 m freestyle S14 | 2:07.56 | 15 | did not advance | |
| 100 m breaststroke SB14 | 1:09.59 | 5 Q | 1:08.44 | 5 | ||
| 200 m individual medley SM14 | 2:22.85 | 15 | did not advance | |||
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=7 | Sarah Louise Rung | 50 m freestyle S5 | 41.68 | 7 Q | 40.42 | 7 |
| 100 m freestyle S5 | 1:26.41 | 6 Q | 1:25.04 | 6 | ||
| 200 m freestyle S5 | 2:54.73 | 1 Q | 2:51.37 | |||
| 50 m backstroke S5 | 49.37 | 6 | 45.40 | |||
| 50 m butterfly S5 | 50.63 | 7 Q | 45.67 | |||
| 100 m breaststroke SB4 | 1:45.46 | 1 Q | 1:44.94 | |||
| 200 m individual medley SM5 | 3:19.54 | 1 Q | 3:15.83 | |||
See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.