Norway at the Olympics


Norway first participated at the Summer Olympics in 1900, and has sent athletes to compete in every Games since then, except for the 1904 Games and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow when they participated in the American-led boycott.
Norwegian athletes have won a total of 152 medals at the Summer Olympics, with sailing and shooting as the top medal-producing sports. At the Winter Olympic Games, Norway has won 368 total medals including 132 gold medals, both considerably more than any other nation in Winter Olympic history. More than half of these medals have come from cross-country skiing and speed skating. Norway is one of only three nations to have won more medals at the Winter Games than at the Summer Games.
The National Olympic Committee for Norway was created and recognized in 1900.

1904 Summer Olympics

The International Olympic Committee considers Norwegian-American wrestlers Charles Ericksen and Bernhoff Hansen to have competed for the United States ; each won a gold medal. In 2012, Norwegian historians however found documentation showing that Ericksen did not receive American citizenship until March 22, 1905, and that Hansen, who was registered as an "alien" as late as 1925, probably never received American citizenship. The historians have therefore petitioned to have the athletes registered as Norwegians.
In May 2013 it was reported that the Norwegian Olympic Committee had filed a formal application for changing the nationality of the wrestlers in IOC's medal database.

Hosted Games

Norway has hosted the Games on two occasions.
GamesHost cityDatesNationsParticipantsEvents
1952 Winter OlympicsOslo14 – 25 February3069422
1994 Winter OlympicsLillehammer12 – 27 February671,73761

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games

Medals by Winter Games

Medals by summer sport

*This table does not include three medals – two silver and one bronze – awarded in the figure skating events at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Medals by winter sport

*This table includes three medals – two silver and one bronze – awarded in the figure skating events at the 1920 Summer Olympics.