Norway at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

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.

Team[edit]

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

Team Norway
Name	Sport	Gender	Classification	Club	Events	ref
Johannes Birkelund	para-Nordic skiing	male		Oppegård IL	cross country skiing	^[1]
Eirik Bye	para-Nordic skiing	male		Oppegård IL		^[1]
Rikke Iversen	wheelchair curling	male		Halden Curling Club	mixed team	^[1]
Trygve Toskedal Larsen	para-Nordic skiing	male		Avaldsnes IL/Trysilgutten IL		^[1]
Rune Lorentsen	wheelchair curling	male		Halden Curling Club	mixed team	^[1]
Sissel Løchen	wheelchair curling			Stavanger Curlingklubb	mixed team	^[1]
Kristian Moen	para-snowboarding			Funkis Snowboardklubb		^[1]
Arvid Nelson	para-Nordic skiing	male	guide skier	Svarstad IL	cross country skiing	^[1]
Vilde Nilsen	para-Nordic skiing	female		Kvaløysletta Skilag/Tromsø SSL	cross country skiing	^[1]
Håkon Grønsveen Olsrud	para-Nordic skiing	male		Nordbygda/Løten Ski	cross country skiing	^[1]
Jesper Saltvik Pedersen	para-alpine skiing	male		Plogen Skiklubb		^[1]
Birgit Skarstein	para-Nordic skiing	female		Frol IL	cross country skiing	^[1]^[2]
Jostein Stordahl	wheelchair curling	male		Halden Curling Club	mixed team	^[1]
Ole Fredrik Syversen	wheelchair curling	male		Halden Curling Club	mixed team	^[1]
Nils-Erik Ulset	para-Nordic skiing	male		Tingvoll IL		^[1]

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

Goals[edit]

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]

Doping[edit]

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]

Medalists[edit]

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

Alpine skiing[edit]

Biathlon[edit]

Cross-country skiing[edit]

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]

Para ice hockey[edit]

Summary

Key:

OT – Overtime
GWS – Match decided by penalty-shootout

Team	Group stage				Semifinal / Pl.	Final / BM / Pl.
Team	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]

Roster[edit]

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]

Norway roster
Name	Position	Number	Club	ref
Torstein Aanekre	forward	34	Mjøsa Pikes	^[1]
Thommas Avdal	defenseman	24	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]
Audun Bakke	forward	22	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]
Magnus Bøgle	forward	12	IL Kråkene Kjelkehockey
Kissinger Deng	goaltender	19	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]
Eskil Hagen	defenseman	7	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]
Martin Hamre	forward	20	VIF Para Ishockey
Kjell Christian Hamar	goaltender	18	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]
Jan Roger Klakegg	defenseman	23	Bergen Parahockeyklubb	^[1]
Knut André Nordstoga	defenseman	16	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]
Rolf Einar Pedersen	defenseman	3	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]
Tor Rivera	forward	10	IL Kråkene Kjelkehockey	^[1]
Lena Schrøder	forward	26	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]^[9]
Emil Sørheim	forward	15	RIHK Kjelkehockey	^[1]
Loyd Remi Pallander Solberg	forward	17	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]
Emil Vatne	forward	27	Nærbø IL	^[1]
Morten Værnes	forward	9	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]
Ola Bye Øiseth	forward	71	VIF Para Ishockey	^[1]

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	Semifinals
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	5–8th place semifinals

Source: PyeongChang 2018

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

Snowboarding[edit]

Banked Slalom

Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Kristian Moen	Men's banked slalom, SB-LL1	1:03.39	59.19	DNF	59.19	7

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Seeding						1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Run 1		Run 2		Best	Seed	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Best	Seed	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

Wheelchair curling[edit]

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage												Tiebreaker	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	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%

Source: Paralympic.org

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

References[edit]

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v t e Nations at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea
America	Argentina Brazil Canada Chile Mexico United States
Asia	China Iran Japan Kazakhstan Mongolia North Korea South Korea Tajikistan Uzbekistan
Europe	Andorra Armenia Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia New Zealand
Others	Neutral Paralympic Athletes