Norway at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

Norway at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
IPC code	NOR
NPC	Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports
Website	www.idrett.no
in Pyeongchang
Competitors	35 in 6 sports
Medals	Gold 1 Silver 3 Bronze 4 Total 8
Winter Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Norway sent competitors to the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. People competed in para-alpine skiing, para-Nordic skiing, para-snowboarding, sledge hockey and wheelchair curling.

The table below contains the list of members of people (called "Team Norway") that competed in the 2018 Games.

Owe Lüthcke is a sledge hockey referee. The Norwegian went to Pyeongchang to referee matches. He was part of the official Norwegian delegation.^[3]

For the 2018 Winter Paralympics, Nord-Trøndelag County Council has some goals. These included getting more people to compete in disability sports. They also wanted to increase the level of accessibility to sports buildings and sports field in Nord-Trøndelag County and the rest of Norway.^[4]

In December 2017, Norway said it would not send any anti-doping officials to the Winter Olympics or Paralympics. They are tired of needing to use unpaid volunteers. They think anti-doping officials need to be paid.^[5] Anti-doping Norway chief executive Anders Solheim said, "If you sell TV rights for this arrangement for billions of dollars, then we think it's wrong that we pay for Norwegian doping controllers to help with the controls. An inspector should receive a reasonable salary and his trip paid for the three weeks he or she will be there. By not paying doping controllers, the organisers are de facto relying on volunteers. Anti-doping work should not be a voluntary profession for those who want to. It is downplaying the priority of our work, and we are tired of it."^[5]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Jesper Pedersen	Alpine skiing	Men's giant slalom, sitting	14 March
Silver	Vilde Nilsen	Cross-country skiing	Women's sprint classical, standing	14 March
Silver	Rune Lorentsen Jostein Stordahl Ole Fredrik Syversen Sissel Løchen Rikke Iversen	Wheelchair curling	Mixed team	17 March
Silver	Nils-Erik Ulset Håkon Olsrud Eirik Bye Guide: Arvid Nelson	Cross-country skiing	4 × 2.5 km open relay	18 March
Bronze	Håkon Olsrud	Cross-country skiing	Men's 20 km free, standing	12 March
Bronze	Jesper Pedersen	Alpine skiing	Men's super combined, sitting	13 March
Bronze	Eirik Bye Guide: Arvid Nelson	Cross-country skiing	Men's sprint classical, visually impaired	14 March
Bronze	Nils-Erik Ulset	Biathlon	Men's 15 km, standing	16 March

Birgit Skarstein competed in two sports: adapted rowing and para-Nordic skiing. She won a gold medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in the PR1 W1x. Skarstein also went to the 2016 Summer Paralympics, and she finished fourth. Skarstein has also went to the 2014 Winter Paralympics, competing in para-Nordic skiing.^[6]

Summary

Team	Group stage				Semifinal / Pl.	Final / BM / Pl.
	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Norway mixed	Italy L 2–3 GWS	Canada L 0–8	Sweden W 3–1	3	Japan W 6–1	Czech Republic W 5–2	5

Norway qualified by finishing in the top four at the 2017 Sledge Hockey World Championships.^[7][8] Norway played in a tournament in January in Japan. They lost to the Paralympic Games host nation South Korea 0 - 5 in the gold medal game.^[9] Norway lost to Italy 4 - 3 in overtime at a tournament in Turin in January 2018.^[9]

Lena Schrøder is the only woman to compete in sledge hockey at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. While the sport allows both men and women to compete against each other, this rarely happens at the Paralympic level.^[9]

Preliminary round

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	3	3	0	0	0	35	0	+35	9	Semifinals
2	Italy	3	1	1	0	1	5	12	−7	5
3	Norway	3	1	0	1	1	5	12	−7	4	5–8th place semifinals
4	Sweden	3	0	0	0	3	1	22	−21	0

10 March 2018 12:00

Norway

2–3 GWS (0–0, 1–1, 1–1) (OT 0–0) (SO: 0–1)

Italy

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 5,543

Game reference
	Kjell Christian Hamar	Goalies	Gabriele Araudo	Referee: Kevin Webinger Linesmen: Chae Young-jin David Nothegger
	0–1 16:02 – Kalegaris (Leperdi) Værnes (Nordstoga, Hamre) (PP) – 26:32 1–1 1–2 33:19 – Rosa (Larch) Bakke (Nordstoga, Pedersen) – 42:25 2–2
	Solberg Vatne Pedersen	Shootout	Larch Rosa
	6 min	Penalties	4 min
	12	Shots	18

12 March 2018 15:30

Canada

8–0 (2–0, 3–0, 3–0)

Norway

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 5,886

Game reference
	Dominic Larocque	Goalies	Kjell Christian Hamar	Referee: Kristijan Nikolic Linesmen: Chae Young-jin Andreas Lundén
	Bridges (Dixon, Arsenault) – 02:33 1–0 Armstrong (Cozzolino, Bowden) – 08:47 2–0 Hickey (PP) – 26:50 3–0 Bowden (Armstrong) – 27:54 4–0 Armstrong (Dunn) – 28:49 5–0 Bridges (Hickey, Arsenault) – 33:59 6–0 Westlake (McGregor) (PP) – 37:21 7–0 McGregor (Cozzolino) (SH) – 41:51 8–0
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	27	Shots	5

13 March 2018 15:30

Norway

3–1 (1–0, 1–0, 1–1)

Sweden

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 6,059

Game reference
	Kissinger Deng	Goalies	Ulf Nilsson	Referee: Sotaro Yamaguchi Linesmen: Chae Young-jin Jan Vaněk
	Nordstoga (Bøgle) – 13:07 1–0 Bøgle (Hamre, Solberg) (PP) – 25:00 2–0 2–1 31:35 – Gyllsten (Kasperi, P. Nilsson) Bøgle (Værnes) (ENG) – 43:45 3–1
	4 min	Penalties	16 min
	19	Shots	10

5–8th place semifinal

14 March 2018 20:00

Norway

6–1 (2–0, 3–1, 1–0)

Japan

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 3,919

Game reference
	Kjell Christian Hamar	Goalies	Shinobu Fukushima Kazuya Mochizuki	Referee: Johnathan Morrison Linesmen: Jan Vaněk Leon Wesley
	Bakke (Øiseth) (PP) – 02:25 1–0 Pedersen (Bøgle, Nordstoga) – 09:37 2–0 2–1 18:20 – Takahashi (Horie) (SH) Bøgle – 18:34 3–1 Pedersen (Hamre) – 18:55 4–1 Bakke (Værnes, Bøgle) – 20:02 5–1 Pedersen (Bøgle, Nordstoga) – 35:28 6–1
	0 min	Penalties	4 min
	14	Shots	6

Fifth place game

16 March 2018 20:00

Norway

5–2 (2–1, 1–0, 2–1)

Czech Republic

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 4,805

Game reference
	Kjell Christian Hamar	Goalies	Martin Kudela	Referee: Kevin Webinger Linesmen: Chae Young-jin Han Youl
	Pedersen (Bøgle) – 00:44 1–0 Bakke (Værnes) – 03:39 2–0 2–1 14:18 – Krupička (Motyčka) Pedersen (PP) – 23:44 3–1 3–2 35:29 – Kubeš (Hábl, Geier) (PP) Bakke (Værnes, Pedersen) – 40:05 4–2 Bakke (SH, ENG) – 42:03 5–2
	10 min	Penalties	31 min
	12	Shots	9

Banked Slalom

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Seeding						1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Run 1		Run 2		Best	Seed
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank			Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
Kristian Moen	Men's snowboard cross, SB-LL1	1:15.59	9	Canceled	1:15.59	9 Q	Wagner (DEN) L	Did not advance			9

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage												Tiebreaker	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Rune Lorentsen Jostein Stordahl Ole Fredrik Syversen Sissel Løchen Rikke Iversen	Mixed	GBR L 2–5	CAN L 1–10	CHN L 1–10	NPA W 6–2	SUI W 6–3	SWE L 4–5	GER W 8–6	KOR W 9–2	FIN W 6–4	USA W 5–4	SVK W 7–6	4 Q	—	KOR W 8–6	CHN L 5–6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	PCT	Ends Won	Ends Lost	Blank Ends	Stolen Ends	Shot %	Qualification
1	South Korea	11	9	2	65	51	14	0.818	38	36	9	11	66%	Advance to playoffs
2	Canada	11	9	2	74	45	29	0.818	47	28	6	27	62%
3	China	11	9	2	85	42	43	0.818	43	32	2	16	67%
4	Norway	11	7	4	55	57	−2	0.636	41	35	5	15	58%
5	Neutral Paralympic Athletes	11	5	6	61	63	−2	0.455	44	37	2	23	62%
6	Switzerland	11	5	6	56	63	−7	0.455	36	45	2	11	61%
7	Great Britain	11	5	6	57	53	4	0.455	41	41	6	20	62%
8	Germany	11	5	6	57	68	−11	0.455	37	39	5	16	54%
9	Slovakia	11	4	7	62	72	−10	0.364	39	46	1	11	57%
10	Sweden	11	4	7	47	66	−19	0.364	29	45	8	8	57%
11	Finland	11	2	9	53	87	−34	0.182	35	46	1	11	51%
12	United States	11	2	9	58	63	−5	0.182	37	45	3	12	60%

Round-robin

Norway has a bye in draws 3, 5, 7, 10, 12 and 17.

Draw 1

Saturday, 10 March, 14:35

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Lorentsen)	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2
Great Britain (Neilson)	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	5

Draw 2

Saturday, 10 March, 19:35

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Canada (Ideson)	0	2	2	1	1	4	X	X	10
Norway (Lorentsen)	1	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	1

Draw 4

Sunday, 11 March, 14:35

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Lorentsen)	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	1
China (Wang)	2	0	2	2	2	2	X	X	10

Draw 6

Monday, 12 March, 09:35

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Stordahl)	1	1	0	1	1	2	0	X	6
Neutral Paralympic Athletes (Kurokhtin)	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	X	2

Draw 8

Monday, 12 March, 19:35

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Switzerland (Wagner)	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	3
Norway (Stordahl)	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	1	6

Draw 9

Tuesday, 13 March, 09:35

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Stordahl)	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	4
Sweden (Petersson Dahl)	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	5

Draw 11

Tuesday, 13 March, 19:35

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Germany (Putzich)	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	6
Norway (Stordahl)	0	2	0	0	2	1	1	2	8

Draw 13

Wednesday, 14 March, 14:35

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
South Korea (Seo)	0	2	0	0	0	0	X	X	2
Norway (Lorentsen)	2	0	0	2	1	4	X	X	9

Draw 14

Wednesday, 14 March, 19:35

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Lorentsen)	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	X	6
Finland (S. Karjalainen)	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	X	4

Draw 15

Thursday, 15 March, 9:35

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
United States (Black)	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	4
Norway (Lorentsen)	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	5

Draw 16

Thursday, 15 March, 14:35

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	EE	Final
Norway (Lorentsen)	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	7
Slovakia (Ďuriš)	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	6

Semifinal

Friday, 16 March, 15:35

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	EE	Final
South Korea (Seo)	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	6
Norway (Lorentsen)	1	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	2	8

Final

Saturday, 17 March, 14:35

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	EE	Final
China (Wang)	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	6
Norway (Lorentsen)	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	5