| Noc: | NOR |
| Nocname: | Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports |
| Games: | Summer Olympics |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Website: | |
| Location: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Competitors: | 93 |
| Sports: | 15 |
| Flagbearer Open: | Anne Vilde Tuxen Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas[1] |
| Flagbearer Close: | Katrine Lunde[2] |
| Rank: | 20 |
| Gold: | 4 |
| Silver: | 2 |
| Bronze: | 2 |
| Appearances: | auto |
| App Begin Year: | 1900 |
| See also: | 1906 Intercalated Games |
Norway competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] Since the nation's debut in 1900, Norwegian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for two occasions: the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, due to the country's support for the United States-led boycott.
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Note that reserves in handball are not counted:
| width=180 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletics | 10 | 5 | 15 | ||||
| Canoeing | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Cycling | 6 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| Diving | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Equestrian | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Golf | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Gymnastics | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Handball | 15 | 15 | 30 | ||||
| Rowing | 7 | 0 | 7 | ||||
| Sailing | 4 | 4 | 8 | ||||
| Shooting | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| Swimming | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Taekwondo | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Triathlon | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Volleyball | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 59 | 34 | 93 |
See main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Norwegian athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):[4] [5]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Filip Ingebrigtsen | 1500 m | 3:38.02 | 10 | Did not advance | |||
| Jakob Ingebrigtsen | 3:36.49 | 4 Q | 3:32.13 | 2 Q | 3:28.32 | ||
| Narve Gilje Nordås | 5000 m | 13:41.82 | 12 | Did not advance | |||
| Karsten Warholm | 400 m hurdles | 48.65 | 1 Q | 47.30 | 1 Q | 45.94 | |
| Sondre Nordstad Moen | Marathon | 2:17:59 | 40 | ||||
| Håvard Haukenes | 50 km walk | ||||||
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Hedda Hynne | 800 m | 2:00.76 | 3 Q | 2:02.38 | 7 | Did not advance | |
| Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal | 5000 m | 14:56.82 | 5 Q | 15:09.37 | 14 | ||
| 10000 m | |||||||
| Amalie Iuel | 400 m hurdles | 55.65 | 6 q | 57.61 | 8 | Did not advance | |
| Line Kloster | 56.45 | 7 | Did not advance | ||||
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distance | Position | Distance | Position | |||
| Sondre Guttormsen | Men's pole vault | 5.50 | 11 | Did not advance | ||
| Ola Stunes Isene | Men's discus throw | 63.26 | 3 Q | 61.18 | 12 | |
| Eivind Henriksen | Men's hammer throw | 78.79 NR | 3 Q | 81.58 NR | ||
| Lene Retzius | Women's pole vault | 4.25 | =14 | Did not advance | ||
| Athlete | Event | 100 m | 400 m | 1500 m | Total | Rank | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Roe | style=font-size:95% | Result | 10.86 | 7.03 | 13.98 | 1.96 | 50.93 | 15.47 | 48.37 | 4.80 | 62.28 | 4:47.58 | 7863 | 19 |
| style=font-size:95% | Points | 892 | 821 | 727 | 767 | 772 | 794 | 836 | 849 | 772 | 633 |
See main article: Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Norway qualified a single boat (men's K-1 1000 m) for the Games by winning the silver medal at the 2021 European Canoe Sprint Qualification Regatta in Szeged, Hungary.[6]
Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)See main article: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Norway entered a squad of six riders (four men and two women) to compete in their respective Olympic road races, by virtue of their top 50 national finish (for men) and top 22 (for women) in the UCI World Ranking.[7] The full cycling squad was named to the Norwegian roster for the Games on July 1, 2021.[8]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tobias Foss | align=left rowspan=4 | Men's road race | 6:16:53 | 61 |
| Markus Hoelgaard | 6:15:38 | 34 | ||
| Tobias Halland Johannessen | 6:25:12 | 82 | ||
| Andreas Leknessund | 6:25:12 | 83 | ||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Katrine Aalerud | Women's road race | 3:59:52 | 37 |
| Women's time trial | 34:33.38 | 20 | ||
| Stine Borgli | Women's road race | Did not finish | ||
Following the completion of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Norway entered one rider to compete in the women's omnium based on her final individual UCI Olympic rankings.
Norway qualified one mountain biker for the men's Olympic cross-country race, as a result of her nation's eighteenth-place finish in the UCI Olympic Ranking List of 16 May 2021.
Norway received a single quota place for BMX at the Olympics by finishing among the top three nations vying for qualification in the men's race based on the UCI BMX Individual Ranking List of June 1, 2021.[9]
See main article: Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Anne Vilde Tuxen represents Norway in the Women's 10m platform event. She is the first female Norwegian diver to qualify for the Olympics since 1988.[10]
See main article: Equestrian at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Equestrian at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Qualification. Norway entered two riders into the Olympic equestrian competition by the following results: a top two finish each, outside the group selection, of the individual FEI Olympic Rankings for Group A (North Western Europe) in dressage and jumping, respectively, marking the country's recurrence to the sport after an eight-year absence.[11]
Ellen Birgitte Farbrot and her horse Red Rebel obtained the minimum eligibility requirements to compete in dressage but eventually withdrew, resulting in Norway losing a qualification berth.[12]
See main article: Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Norway entered two male and one female golfers into the Olympic tournament. Marianne Skarpnord qualified but later withdrew.
| Athlete | Event | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Score | Score | Score | Score | Par | Rank | |||
| Viktor Hovland | align=left rowspan=2 | Men's | 68 | 69 | 71 | 64 | 272 | −12 | =14 |
| Kristian Krogh Johannessen | 72 | 70 | 71 | 71 | 284 | E | =53 | ||
| Tonje Daffinrud | Women's | 81 | 73 | 81 | 74 | 309 | +25 | 60 | |
See main article: Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Norway entered two artistic gymnasts into the Olympic competition. Sofus Heggemsnes and Julie Erichsen received a spare berth each from the men's and women's apparatus events, respectively, as one of the highest-ranked, neither part of the team nor qualified directly through the all-around, at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | ||||||||||||
| align=left rowspan=4 | Sofus Heggemsnes | Pommel horse | 13.066 | 13.066 | 44 | Did not advance | |||||||||||
| Rings | 13.233 | 13.233 | 52 | Did not advance | |||||||||||||
| Parallel bars | 13.133 | 13.133 | 61 | Did not advance | |||||||||||||
| Horizontal bar | 12.933 | 12.933 | 52 | Did not advance | |||||||||||||
See main article: Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
| Team | Event | Group stage | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | |||
| Norway men's | Men's tournament | W 27–24 | L 27–28 | W 27–23 | L 23–28 | W 32–29 | 4 Q | L 25–31 | Did not advance | 7 | ||
| Norway women's | Women's tournament | W 39–27 | W 30–21 | W 35–23 | W 29–27 | W 37–25 | 1 Q | W 26–22 | L 26–27 | W 36–19 | ||
See main article: Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Norway men's national handball team qualified for the Olympics by securing a top-two finish at the Podgorica leg of the 2020 IHF Olympic Qualification Tournament.[13]
See main article: Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament and Handball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification. Norway women's national handball team qualified for the Olympics by securing a top-two finish at the Podgorica leg of the 2020 IHF Olympic Qualification Tournament.[14]
See main article: Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Norway qualified three boats for each of the following rowing classes into the Olympic regatta, with the majority of crews confirming Olympic places for their boats at the 2019 FISA World Championships in Ottensheim, Austria.[15] [16]
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Repechage | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Kjetil Borch | Men's single sculls | 6:54.46 | 1 QF | 7:10.97 | 1 SA/B | 6:42.92 | 1 FA | 6:41.66 | |||
| Kristoffer Brun Are Strandli | Men's lightweight double sculls | 6:25.74 | 1 SA/B | 12:16.25 | 6 FB | 12 | |||||
| Martin Helseth Oscar Stabe Helvig Erik Solbakken Olaf Tufte | Men's quadruple sculls | 5:49.02 | 4 R | 6:02.85 | 4 FB | 5:47.34 | 9 | ||||
See main article: Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Norwegian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas.[17] [18]
| Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | M* | ||||
| Endre Funnemark | RS:X | 14 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 16 | EL | 126 | 14 | |
| Hermann Tomasgaard | Laser | 3 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 85 | ||||
| Anders Pedersen | Finn | 6 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 4 | EL | 82 | 11 | |||
| Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Final rank | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | M* | |||||
| Linn Flem Høst | Laser Radial | 20 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 6 | 24 | 22 | 10 | 111 | 8 | ||||
| Helene Næss Marie Rønningen | 49erFX | 10 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 100 | 7 | ||
See main article: Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Norwegian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.[19]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Jon-Hermann Hegg | Men's 10 m air rifle | 625.5 | 22 | Did not advance | |||
| Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 1181 | 3 Q | 438.0 | 4 | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Henrik Larsen | Men's 10 m air rifle | 627.4 | 11 | Did not advance | |||
| Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 1175 | 9 | Did not advance | |||||
| Erik Watndal | Men's skeet | 121 | 14 | Did not advance | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Jeanette Hegg Duestad | Women's 10 m air rifle | 632.9 | 1 Q | 209.3 | 4 | ||
| Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 1171 | 8 Q | 439.9 | 4 | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Jenny Stene | Women's 10 m air rifle | 625.5 | 19 | Did not advance | |||
| Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 1168 | 12 | Did not advance | |||||
| Jeanette Hegg Duestad Henrik Larsen | align=left rowspan=2 | 10 m air rifle team | 626.8 | 10 | Did not advance | |||
| Jenny Stene Jon-Hermann Hegg | 626.8 | 9 | Did not advance | |||||
See main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Norwegian swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):[20] [21]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Henrik Christiansen | Men's 400 m freestyle | 3:48.88 | 21 | Did not advance | |||
| Men's 800 m freestyle | 7:48.37 | 9 | Did not advance | |||||
| Men's 1500 m freestyle | 15:11.14 | 21 | Did not advance | |||||
| André Grindheim | Men's 100 m breaststroke | 1:00.86 | 35 | Did not advance | ||||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas | Men's 100 m butterfly | 52.22 | 27 | Did not advance | |||
| Men's 200 m butterfly | 1:56.30 | 19 | Did not advance | |||||
| Men's 200 m individual medley | 1:57.64 | 12 Q | 2:00.21 | 16 | Did not advance | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Ingeborg Løyning | Women's 100 m backstroke | 1:00.07 | =18 | Did not advance | |||
| Women's 200 m backstroke | 2:11.68 | 17 | Did not advance | |||||
See main article: Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Norway entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition at the Games. Richard Ordemann secured a spot in the men's welterweight category (80 kg) with a top two finish at the 2021 European Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.[22]
See main article: Triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Triathlon at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Norway entered four triathletes (three men and one woman) to compete at the Olympics. Rio 2016 Olympian Kristian Blummenfelt, along with rookies Gustav Iden, Casper Stornes, and Lotte Miller, was selected among the top 26 triathletes vying for qualification in their respective events based on the individual ITU World Rankings of 15 June 2021.[23]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swim (1.5 km) | Trans 1 | Bike (40 km) | Trans 2 | Run (10 km) | Total | ||||
| Kristian Blummenfelt | align=left rowspan=3 | Men's | 18:04 | 0:39 | 56:19 | 0:28 | 29:34 | 1:45:04 | |
| Gustav Iden | 18:24 | 0:39 | 55:59 | 0:29 | 30:29 | 1:46:00 | 8 | ||
| Casper Stornes | 17:58 | 0:42 | 56:21 | 0:28 | 30:50 | 1:46:19 | 11 | ||
| Lotte Miller | Women's | 19:58 | 0:46 | 64:35 | 0:35 | 36:49 | 2:02:43 | 24 | |
See main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Norway men's beach volleyball pair qualified directly for the Olympics by virtue of their nation's top 15 placement in the FIVB Olympic Rankings of 13 June 2021.[24]