Norway at the Olympics

Norway has been in the Olympic Games for a long time. They first joined the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 and have been there almost every year since. They did not go to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Norwegian athletes have won medals in the Summer Olympics. They are good at sports like sailing and shooting. But Norway is most famous for the Winter Olympic Games. They have won many Winter Olympic medals, more than any other country. Many of these medals are from cross-country skiing and speed skating.

The group that helps organize Norway’s Olympic teams is called the National Olympic Committee. It started in 1900.

1904 Summer Olympics

Two wrestlers, Charles Ericksen and Bernhoff Hansen, were thought to have competed for the United States in the 1904 Summer Olympics. They both won gold medals. Later, it was found that Ericksen became a U.S. citizen after the Olympics, and Hansen likely never did. In 2021, the Olympic Committee changed its records to show that Ericksen and Hansen competed for Norway.

Hosted Games

Norway has hosted the Olympic Games two times.

Medal tables

See also: All-time Olympic Games medal table

Medals by Summer Games

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• ^{Art comp.} Art competitions (1912–1948) are not in the medal table above, as they were non-sports events that were once part of the Olympic Games. Norway won its sole art competition medal, a silver, at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

Medals by Winter Games

  Host country

Source:

Medals overall

Records

• The most gold and total medals in the history of the Winter Olympics (166 and 447)
• The most gold medals won in a single Winter Olympics (18 in 2026)
• The most total medals won in a single Winter Olympics (41 in 2026)

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

  Leading in that sport

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

Summary by sport

Athletics

Norway joined the Olympic Games in 1900 with two track and field athletes. One of them, Carl Albert Andersen, won a bronze medal for pole vaulting.

Sailing

Norway started competing in sailing at the Olympics in 1908.

Shooting

Norway began in shooting events in 1900. Ole Østmo won medals in two different rifle positions, earning a bronze for himself and a silver for his team.

Medals in art competitions

Main article: List of Olympic medalists in art competitions

Norway has earned recognition in Olympic art competitions—one of the three non-sports events once included in the Olympic Games. The country won its only medal, a silver, at the 1920 Summer Olympics. These art events were part of the Olympic program in seven Summer Games, from 1912 to 1948. In 1952, the International Olympic Committee stopped all non-sport events, and they were no longer counted in the medals.

Medalists