Team Norway - Profile

Highlights:

@ PYEONGCHANG 2018
Norway competed in 11 sports: Alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, Nordic combined, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboarding, and speed skating - with a team of 99 athletes (75 men, 24 women).

Norway won 39 medals (14 gold), with 12 won by women, 24 by men, and three in mixed/open events. Norway led the medal list at PyeongChang 2018, both in terms of medals won and gold medals won. Its male athletes also led both lists.

Norway again dominated cross-country skiing at PyeongChang, winning 14 medals (seven gold medals). The seven gold were more than all other nations combined in cross-country. Its top skier was Marit Bjorgen, who won five medals (two gold), giving her 15 medals, with eight gold in her Olympic career. Her 15 Olympic medals gave her the absolute Olympic record for any Winter Olympian, while her eight gold medals tied her with Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjorndalen.

On the men's side, Norway's top skier was Johannes Hosflot Klaebo, who won three gold medals in cross-country, in the sprint, team sprint, and 4x10km relay.

PYEONGCHANG 2018 MEDALS
Alpine Skiing: 7 (1-4-2)
Biathlon: 6 (1-3-2)
Cross-Country Skiing: 14 (7-4-3)
Curling: 1 (0-0-1)
Freestyle Skiing: 1 (1-0-0)
Nordic Combined: 1 (0-1-0)
Ski Jumping: 5 (2-1-2)
Speed Skating: 4 (2-1-1)
Total: 39 (14-14-11)

PYEONGCHANG 2018 FLAGBEARERS
Opening Ceremony: Emil Hegle Svendsen (BTH)
Closing Ceremony: Marit Bjorgen (CCS)

OLYMPIC GAMES HISTORY
Norway competed at the Paris 1900 Olympic Games and has only missed the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games since, including every Olympic Winter Games.

Until 1984, Norway could claim to be the top nation at the Olympic Winter Games in terms of medals and gold medals won. In that year, however, the Soviet Union surpassed Norway in both categories.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Norway again topped the list of most medals won by a single country at the Olympic Winter Games with 368, with 132 gold (excludes three medals won in figure skating at the 1920 Olympic Games). Norway, alongside Liechtenstein and Austria, are the only nations to have won more medals in the Olympic Winter Games than in the Olympic Games.

Cross-country skier Marit Bjorgen won 15 medals (eight gold), while biathlete Ole Einar Bjorndalen won 13 medals (eight gold), followed by cross-country skier Bjorn Daehlie with 12 medals (eight gold). Bjorgen's 15 medals is an absolute Winter Olympic record, while the eight golds won by all three was also a record through 2018.

Figure skater Sonja Henie was just an 11-year-old when she placed eighth at the Chamonix 1924 Olympic Winter Games. Twelve years later, she collected her third consecutive gold medal, and shortly afterward she won her 10th consecutive world title.

Norway's top winter sports have been cross-country skiing (121 medals, 47 gold), speed skating (84 medals, 27 gold), biathlon (41 medals, 16 gold), Alpine skiing (36 medals, 11 gold), ski jumping (35 medals, 11 gold), and Nordic combined (31 medals, 13 gold). Norway leads the Olympic Winter Games medal list in cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, and ski jumping, and is second in biathlon and speed skating.

Norway has been the top nation at an Olympic Winter Games multiple times - 1924, 1928, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1968, 1994 (medals only), 2002 (gold only), 2014 (gold only), and 2018. It has been second both in terms of medals and gold medals won in 1932 and 1998.

OLYMPIC HOSTS
Oslo - 1952 Olympic Winter Games
Lillehammer - 1994 Olympic Winter Games

MILESTONES

First Competitor, Female: Margot Moe (25 April 1920) - 1920 - Figure Skating (Singles) - 5th
First Competitor, Female: Ingrid Gulbrandsen (25 April 1920) - 1920 - Figure Skating (Singles) - 6th
First Competitor, Female: Sonja Henie (28 January 1924) - 1924 - Figure Skating (Singles) - 8th

First Competitor, Male: Martin Stixrud (25 April 1920) - 1920 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Bronze
First Competitor, Male: Andreas Krogh (25 April 1920) - 1920 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Silver
First Competitor, Male: Sigurd Moen (26 January 1924) - 1924 - Speed Skating (500m) - 13th

Youngest Competitor, Female: Sonja Henie (11y-294d) - 1924 - Figure Skating (Singles) - 8th
Youngest Competitor, Male: Stale Sandbech (16y-258d) - 2010 - Snowboard (Halfpipe) - 30th

Oldest Competitor, Female: Hanne Pettersen-Woods (41y-328d) - 2002 - Curling - 7th
Oldest Competitor, Male: Arne Holst (47y-341d) - 1952 - Bobsleigh (4-man) - 12th

First Medallist, Female: Alexia Bryn (26 April 1920) - 1920 - Figure Skating (Pairs) - Silver
First Medallist, Female: Sonja Henie (15 February 1928) - 1928 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Gold

First Medallist, Male: Yngvar Bryn (26 April 1920) - 1920 - Figure Skating (Pairs) - Silver
First Medallist, Male: Oskar Olsen (26 January 1924) - 1924 - Speed Skating (500m) - Silver
First Medallist, Male: Roald Larsen (26 January 1924) - 1924 - Speed Skating (500m) - Bronze

First Gold Medallist, Female: Sonja Henie (15 February 1928) - 1928 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Gold
First Gold Medallist, Male: Thorleif Haug (30 January 1924) - 1924 - Cross-Country Skiing (50km) - Gold

Youngest Medallist, Female: Sonja Henie (15y-312d) - 1928 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Gold
Youngest Medallist, Male: Alv Gjestvang (18y-137d) - 1956 - Speed Skating (500m) - Bronze

Youngest Gold Medallist, Female: Sonja Henie (15y-312d) - 1928 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Gold
Youngest Gold Medallist, Male: Kjetil Andre Aamodt (20y-167d) - 1992 - Alpine Skiing (Super-G) - Gold

Oldest Medallist, Female: Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen (41y-099d) - 2006 - Cross-Country Skiing (10km Classical) - Bronze
Oldest Medallist, Male: Martin Stixrud (44y-078d) - 1920 - Figure Skating (Singles) - Bronze

Oldest Gold Medallist, Female: Marit Bjorgen (37y-340d) - 2018 - Cross-Country Skiing (30km Mass Start Classical) - Gold
Oldest Gold Medallist, Male: Halvard Hanevold (40y-084d) - 2010 - Biathlon (4x7.5km Relay) - Gold

Most Medals, Female: Marit Bjorgen (15 | 8-4-3) - Cross-Country Skiing
Most Medals, Male: Ole Einar Bjorndalen (13 | 8-4-1) - Biathlon

Most Gold Medals, Female: Marit Bjorgen (8) - Cross-Country Skiing
Most Gold Medals, Male: Ole Einar Bjorndalen (8) - Biathlon
Most Gold Medals, Male: Bjorn Daehlie (8) - Cross-Country Skiing

MEDALS BY CLASS AT PREVIOUS OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
Men: 296 (110-102-84)
Women: 70 (21-23-26)
Mixed: 5 (1-2-2)
Totals: 371 (132-127-112)

Additional Information:

http://www.idrett.no/

Anthem Title: Ja, vi elsker dette landet (Yes, We Love This Land of Ours)

Anthem Composer: Music: Rikard Nordraak, Lyrics: Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Anthem Inducted: 1864

Founding Date: 1900

IOC Recognition Date: 1900

Delegation President: Berit Kjoll

Delegation Secretary General: Nils Einar Aas

IOC Members: Current:Kristin Kloster Aasen (entry into IOC: 2017)Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen (entry intro IOC: 2021)Former: Henrik Angell (1905-1907)Thomas Thomassen Heftye (1907-1908)Johan Sverre (1908-1927)Sir Thomas Fearnley (1927-1950)Olaf Ditlev-Simonsen (1948-1967)Jan Staubo (1967-2000)Olaf Poulsen (1992-1994)Gerhard Heiberg (1994-2017)Johann Olav Koss (1999-2001)Adne Sondral (2002-2006)Ole Einar Bjorndalen (2014-2016)Gerhard Heiberg (IOC member from 1994 to 2017, Honorary Member since 2017)

First OG/PG Appearance: 1924

Number OG/PG Appearances: 23

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