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Norway at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Norway competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018. It was represented by 109 competitors in 11 sports.

Norway was the most successful nation at the games with 39 total medals, setting a new record for the most medals won by a country at a single Winter Olympics. The previous record of 37 was set by the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[2] Norway, together with Germany, also matched the record of most gold medals at a single Winter Olympics with 14 gold, originally set by Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[3]

Cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen was the most successful athlete of the games, with five medals, while her male colleagues Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Simen Hegstad Krüger and Martin Johnsrud Sundby won three each. Biathletes Johannes Thingnes Bø and Emil Hegle Svendsen and ski jumper Robert Johansson also won three medals each. Additional nine Norwegian athletes won two medals each: Ragnhild Haga, Johann André Forfang, Håvard Lorentzen, Sverre Lunde Pedersen, Ragnhild Mowinckel, Marte Olsbu, Kjetil Jansrud, Tiril Eckhoff and Maiken Caspersen Falla.

Medalists

Outline

Prior to the games, the Norwegian Olympic sports authority Olympiatoppen announced an official goal of winning 30 medals and making it into the top three on the medal table.[4]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.[5]

Alpine skiing

Men
Women
Mixed

Biathlon

Based on their Nations Cup rankings in the 2016–17 Biathlon World Cup, Norway has qualified 6 men and 5 women.[6][7]

Men
Women
Mixed

Cross-country skiing

Distance
Men
Women
Sprint
Men
Women

Curling

Norway has qualified seven athletes.

Summary

Men's tournament

Norway has qualified a men's team by earning enough points in the last two World Curling Championships.[8]

Source: [citation needed]
Round-robin

Norway has a bye in draws 1, 5 and 9.

Draw 2

Wednesday, 14 February, 20:05

Draw 3

Thursday, 15 February, 14:05

Draw 4

Friday, 16 February, 09:05

Draw 6

Saturday, 17 February, 14:05

Draw 7

Sunday, 18 February, 09:05

Draw 8

Sunday, 18 February, 20:05

Draw 10

Tuesday, 20 February, 09:05

Draw 11

Tuesday, 20 February, 20:05

Draw 12

Wednesday, 21 February, 14:05

Mixed doubles

Norway has qualified a mixed doubles team by earning enough points in the last two World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships.[9] Norway eventually finished in 4th place behind OAR, but on 22 February it was confirmed that the male OAR competitor had tested positive for meldonium, a banned substance. This meant that the OAR team would be stripped of their medal, and Norway would instead receive the bronze medal for mixed doubles curling.[10][11]

Source: [citation needed]
Draw 1

Thursday, February 8, 9:05

Draw 2

Thursday, February 8, 20:04

Draw 3

Friday, February 9, 8:35

Draw 4

Friday, February 9, 13:35

Draw 5

Saturday, February 10, 9:05

Draw 6

Saturday, February 10, 20:04

Draw 7

Sunday, February 11, 9:05

Tiebreaker

Sunday, February 11, 20:05

Semifinal

Monday, February 12, 9:05

Bronze-medal game

Tuesday, February 13, 9:05

Notes

Freestyle skiing

Moguls
Slopestyle

Ice hockey

Summary

Key:

Men's tournament

Norway men's national ice hockey team qualified by winning the final qualification tournament in Oslo, Norway.[12][13]

Team roster

The following is the roster of the Norway national team for the men's ice hockey tournament at the 2018 Winter Olympics.[14][15]

Head coach: Norway Petter Thoresen     Assistant coach: Norway Sjur Robert Nilsen

Preliminary round

Source: IIHF


Qualification playoffs
Quarterfinal

Nordic combined

Norway has qualified 5 athletes.

Skeleton

Norway qualified a single male athlete for the skeleton event. Former Olympic champion Maya Pederson had also competed for Norway in a bid to qualify for the 2018 Olympics but came up short. Male rider Alexander Henning Hannsen received a reallocation invitation.

Ski jumping

Norway has qualified 2 women and 5 men.

Men

Anders Fannemel was the back-up jumper for Norway.

Women

Snowboarding

Freestyle

Mons Røisland sustained injuries before the final and therefore withdrew from the slopestyle competition and the rest of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Speed skating

Men
Women
Mass start
Team pursuit

Reactions

On or about 6 February 2018 before the games, the Norwegian Olympic Team chefs inadvertently ordered 15,000 eggs from South Korea because of a Google Translate error. They only wanted 1,500 eggs. There was a tweet "OL-leiren bestilte 1500 egg gjennom å oversette via Google Translate. Men det slo feil. 15.000 ble levert på døra. Vi ønsker lykke til og håper at de norske gullhåpene er glade – veldig glade – i egg".[17]

References

  1. ^ "Opening Ceremony Flagbearers - Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018" (PDF). olympic.org. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 9 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Winter Olympics: Norway win record 38th medal as Switzerland take team alpine skiing gold". 24 February 2018 – via www.bbc.com.
  3. ^ "Winter Olympics 2018 Results: Russia Wins Hockey Gold". 25 February 2018 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ Halvor Lea (1 November 2017). "100 dager til OL: Olympiatoppen presenterte målsettingen for troppene til PyeongChang". olympiatoppen.no (in Norwegian).
  5. ^ Olympiatoppen (28 January 2018). "OL-troppen til PyeongChang komplett med 109 utøvere" [The Olympic team for PyeongChang is complete with 109 athletes] (in Norwegian). Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Men's Nation Cup Score" (PDF). www.docs.google.com/. International Biathlon Union (IBU). 5 March 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  7. ^ "Women's Nation Cup Score" (PDF). www.docs.google.com/. International Biathlon Union (IBU). 5 March 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Eight men's teams set for 2018 Olympic Games as hosts complete round-robin undefeated". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation (WCF). 6 April 2017. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  9. ^ "Olympic mixed doubles places now known for PyeongChang 2018". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation (WCF). 29 April 2017. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  10. ^ "Media Release ADD 2018 (English)" (PDF). www.tas-cas.org. Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  11. ^ "ADD 18-03 Partial Award on ADRV (FINAL)" (PDF). www.tas-cas.org. Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). 22 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  12. ^ Peters, Chris (4 September 2016). "Olympics: NHLers help Germany, Norway and Slovenia qualify for PyeongChang 2018". www.cbssports.com/. CBS Sports. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  13. ^ Dickie, Justin (6 September 2016). "Norway, Slovenia, Germany qualify for men's hockey at 2018 Olympics". www.thehockeynews.com/. The Hockey News. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  14. ^ "Three Thoresens: Norway announces Olympic roster". IIHF. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  15. ^ "Ice hockey Men – Team Roster – NOR - Norway" (PDF). pyeongchang2018.com. 13 February 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  16. ^ "Women's slopestyle qualification canceled". Reuters. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  17. ^ "Norwegian Team Gets 15K Eggs After Google Translate Error". nbcphiladelphia.com.