Norway at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
| Norway at the 2016 Summer Paralympics |
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| IPC code | NOR | ||||||||
| NPC | Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 25 in 10 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Björnar Erikstad | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 32nd |
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Norway competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. They won a total of eight medals; three gold, two silver and three bronze. Sarah Louise Rung led the team by winning five medals in swimming; two gold, one silver and two bronze.
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.
The country qualified to participate in the team event at the Rio Games.
"#" indicates that the score of this rider does not count in the team competition, since only the best three results of a team are counted.
One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top eight finish at the 2015 FISA World Rowing Championships in a medal event. Norway qualified for the 2016 Games under this criteria in the AS Women's Single Sculls event with a third-place finish in a time of 05:31.940.
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