Norway at the 1972 Winter Olympics

Norway at the
1972 Winter Olympics
Norway at the; 1972 Winter Olympics
IOC code	NOR
NOC	Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports
Website	www.idrett.no (in Norwegian)
in Sapporo, Japan; February 3–13, 1972
Competitors	67 (56 men, 11 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Magnar Solberg (Biathlon)
Medals ; Ranked 7th	Gold2Silver5Bronze5Total12
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Last updated January 07, 2022

Norway competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Magnar Solberg	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Gold	Pål Tyldum	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km (classical)
Silver	Pål Tyldum	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km (classical)
Silver	Magne Myrmo	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km (classical)
Silver	Oddvar Brå Pål Tyldum Ivar Formo Johs Harviken	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Silver	Roar Grønvold	Speed skating	Men's 1500m
Silver	Roar Grønvold	Speed skating	Men's 5000m
Bronze	Ivar Formo	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km (classical)
Bronze	Johs Harviken	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km (classical)
Bronze	Inger Aufles Aslaug Dahl Berit Mørdre Lammedal	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 × 5 km relay
Bronze	Sten Stensen	Speed skating	Men's 5000m
Bronze	Sten Stensen	Speed skating	Men's 10,000m

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Peik Christensen	Downhill					1:59.71	36
Erik Håker	Downhill					1:53.16	5
Otto Tschudi	Giant Slalom	1:57.42	50	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Peik Christensen		1:38.27	33	1:40.42	17	3:18.69	23
Erik Håker		1:31.70	1	DNF	–	DNF	–

Men's slalom

Athlete	Classification		Final
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Peik Christensen	1:45.36	2	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Erik Håker	DSQ	–	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Otto Tschudi	DSQ	–	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Karianne Christiansen	Downhill					1:41.25	21
Gyri Sørensen						1:40.77	17
Toril Førland						1:40.25	11
Gyri Sørensen	Giant Slalom					1:37.32	28
Karianne Christiansen						1:37.18	27
Anne Brusletto						1:34.43	19
Toril Førland						1:34.15	17
Gyri Sørensen	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Anne Brusletto		DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Karianne Christiansen		52.59	24	DNF	–	DNF	–
Toril Førland		47.75	10	48.01	11	1:35.76	9

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ¹	Rank
20 km	Ragnar Tveiten	1'17:19.91	7	1'24:19.91	29
	Kåre Hovda	1'16:20.37	6	1'22:20.37	18
	Tor Svendsberget	1'15:26.54	3	1'18:26.54	8
	Magnar Solberg	1'13:55.50	2	1'15:55.50

¹ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ²	Time	Rank
Tor Svendsberget Kåre Hovda Ivar Nordkild Magnar Solberg	7	1'56:24.21	4

² A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Magne Myrmo	47:02.55	19
	Johs Harviken	46:46.36	15
	Oddvar Brå	46:25.88	9
	Ivar Formo	46:02.68
30 km	Ole Ellefsæter	1'44:25.21	31
	Magne Myrmo	1'42:23.40	21
	Johs Harviken	1'37:32.44
	Pål Tyldum	1'37:25.30
50 km	Ole Ellefsæter	2'46:46.94	10
	Reidar Hjermstad	2'44:14.51	4
	Magne Myrmo	2'43:29.45
	Pål Tyldum	2'43:14.75

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Oddvar Brå Pål Tyldum Ivar Formo Johs Harviken	2'04:57.06

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Katharina Mo-Berge	17:49.06	17
	Inger Aufles	17:33.14	12
	Aslaug Dahl	17:17.49	8
	Berit Mørdre-Lammedal	17:16.79	7
10 km	Katharina Mo-Berge	37:33.16	29
	Berit Mørdre-Lammedal	36:29.43	14
	Inger Aufles	36:07.08	12
	Aslaug Dahl	35:18.84	6

Women's 3 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Inger Aufles Aslaug Dahl Berit Mørdre-Lammedal	49:51.49

Ice hockey

First Round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-11th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Finland	13–1	Norway

Consolation Round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
7	West Germany	4	3	1	0	22	10	6
8	Norway	4	3	1	0	16	14	6
9	Japan	4	2	1	1	17	16	5
10	Switzerland	4	0	2	2	9	16	2
11	Yugoslavia	4	0	3	1	9	17	1

Norway 5-2 Yugoslavia
West Germany 5-1 Norway
Japan 4-5 Norway
Norway 5-3 Switzerland

	Contestants Kåre Østensen Thore Wålberg Øivind Berg Jan Kinder Svein Norman Hansen Terje Steen Birger Jansen Thor Martinsen Tom Røymark Tom Christensen Steinar Bjølbakk Svein Haagensen Roy Jansen Bjørn Johansen Morten Sethereng Terje Thoen Bjørn Andreassen Arne Mikkelsen

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stephen Sinding	54.98	27	54.05	19	53.19	20	53.19	19	3:35.41	22
Bjørn Dyrdahl	54.73	25	55.13	31	54.67	36	53.52	24	3:38.05	30
Christian Strøm	53.79	13	53.68	16	52.46	12	53.08	17	3:33.01	14

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christian Strøm Stephen Sinding	45.81	14	46.25	16	1:32.06	14

Nordic combined

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Gjert Andersen	Individual	67.0	71.5	173.3	23	52:04.8	187.015	26	360.315	23
Henning Weid		71.0	74.0	181.3	15	51:58.1	188.020	25	369.320	19
Kjell Åsvestad		71.0	74.0	183.1	13	51:36.2	191.305	23	374.405	14
Kåre Olav Berg		72.5	73.0	180.4	16	50:08.9	204.400	7	384.800	8

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Jo Inge Bjørnebye	Normal hill	68.5	90.3	67.0	83.9	174.2	51
Nils-Per Skarseth		73.5	101.3	71.0	96.3	197.6	33
Ingolf Mork		78.0	112.0	78.0	113.5	225.5	4
Frithjof Prydz		80.0	114.2	74.0	103.6	217.8	11
Jo Inge Bjørnebye	Large hill	85.5	86.7	81.5	81.1	167.8	34
Frithjof Prydz		85.0	89.0	95.5	105.7	194.7	15
Ingolf Mork		89.0	95.6	83.0	77.7	173.3	28
Bjørn Wirkola		93.0	97.7	74.5	64.8	162.5	37

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Ole Christian Iversen	DNF	–
	Johan Lind	41.14	18
	Lasse Efskind	40.60	12
	Per Bjørang	39.91	4
1500 m	Dag Fornæss	2:09.52	13
	Svein-Erik Stiansen	2:08.63	11
	Bjørn Tveter	2:05.94	4
	Roar Grønvold	2:04.26
5000 m	Willy Olsen	7:36.47	5
	Sten Stensen	7:33.39
	Roar Grønvold	7:28.18
10,000 m	Dag Fornæss	15:53.33	13
	Per Willy Guttormsen	15:48.71	11
	Sten Stensen	15:07.88

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	46.33	19
	Kirsti Biermann	46.18	17
	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	45.70	11
1000 m	Kirsti Biermann	1:35.76	23
	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	1:35.56	22
	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	1:33.13	9
1500 m	Kirsti Biermann	2:29.94	23
	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	2:28.36	19
	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	2:24.07	8
3000 m	Kirsti Biermann	5:26.21	20
3000 m	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	5:07.76	10

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