Norway at the Paralympics explained

Npc:NOR
Npcname:Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports
Games:Paralympics
Website: 
Rank:10
Gold:256
Silver:213
Bronze:182

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]

Medals

See also: All-time Paralympic Games medal table.

Summer Paralympics

EventGoldSilverBronzeTotalRanking
9 3 4 16 6th
did not participate
5 3 1 9 13th
1 5 4 10 22nd
9 6 4 19 16th
15 13 8 36 10th
30 30 30 90 10th
11 11 15 37 23rd
13 13 7 33 10th
9 7 4 20 17th
2 6 7 15 40th
3 1 1 5 38th
1 3 3 7 43rd
3 2 3 8 35th
3 2 3 8 32nd
2 0 2 4 47th
Total 116 105 96 317 18

Winter Paralympics

EventGoldSilverBronzeTotalRanking
7 3 2 12 4th
23 21 10 54 1st
15 13 13 41 3rd
25 21 14 60 1st
5 5 4 14 7th
29 22 13 64 1st
18 9 13 40 1st
10 3 6 19 3rd
1 1 3 5 12th
1 3 2 6 12th
1 2 1 4 11th
1 3 4 8 14th
4 2 1 7 8th
Total 140 108 86 334 1

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=NOR&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=all Norway at the Paralympics
  2. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=NOR&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=all Norway at the Paralympics
  3. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=NOR&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=all Norway at the Paralympics
  4. http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=NOR&gender=all&medal=all&sport=all&games=all Norway at the Paralympics