Norway at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Norway at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
Flag of Norway
IOC code	NOR
NOC	Norwegian Olympic Committee
in Gangwon, South Korea 19 January 2024 (2024-01-19) – 1 February 2024 (2024-02-01)
Competitors	48 in 9 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Ola Brandstadmoen & Julie Kvelvane
Flag bearer (closing)	TBD
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 4 Bronze 3 Total 7
Winter Youth Olympics appearances
2012 2016 2020 2024

Norway is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea, from January 19 to February 1, 2024. This will be Norway's fourth appearance at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, having competed at every Games since the inaugural edition in 2012.

The Norwegian team consisted of 48 athletes competing in nine sports. ^[1] Luger Ola Brandstadmoen and biathlete Julie Kvelvane were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony. ^[2]

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Biathlon	4	4	8
Curling	3	3	6
Freestyle skiing	2	0	2
Ice hockey	0	18	18
Luge	1	0	1
Nordic combined	2	2	4
Speed skating	2	2	4
Ski jumping	2	2	4
Snowboarding	1	0	1
Total	17	31	48

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Silver	Storm Veitsle	Biathlon	Men's individual	20 January
Silver	Kjersti Græsli Oddvar Gunnerød Ingvild Synnøve Midtskogen Mats Strandbråten	Ski jumping	Mixed team normal hill	21 January
Silver	Miika Johan Klevstuen	Speed skating	Men's 500 metres	22 January
Silver	Tov Røysland	Biathlon	Men's sprint	23 January
Bronze	Ingvild Synnøve Midtskogen	Ski jumping	Women's individual normal hill	20 January
Bronze	Storm Veitsle Eiril Nordbø	Biathlon	Single mixed relay	21 January
Bronze	Eirik Andersen	Speed skating	Men's mass start	26 January

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Norway qualified eight biathletes (four per gender). ^[3]

Men

• Storm Kristoffer Veitsle
• Tov Røysland
• Sigurd Lysberg Lehn
• Ole Øyvind Gebhardt

Women

• Eiril Høistad Nordbø
• Julie Tronerud Kvelvane
• Sara Granvang Tronrud
• Marie Lund Flaa

Curling

Main article: Curling at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Norway qualified a mixed team and mixed doubles pair for a total of six athletes. ^{[4] [5]}

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage								Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Alexander Johansen Torstein Hoeiholt Vågsnes Lydia Hågensen Melina Troean	Mixed team	United States L 3–8	Sweden L 7–10	Nigeria W 21–0	China L 4–11	Turkey W 5–0	New Zealand W 5–2	Japan L 4–8	5	Did not advance			9
Sylvi Iines Hausstaetter Sondre Svorkmo Lundberg	Mixed doubles	Sweden L 6–7	Qatar W 15–0	Ukraine W 7–2	United States L 3–8	Slovenia W 14–4	—	3	Did not advance

Mixed team

Main article: Curling at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed team

Group A	Skip	W	L	W–L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	DSC
China	Li Zetai	6	1	1–0	65	25	28	17	0	12	59.04
United States	Kenna Ponzio	6	1	0–1	68	26	31	16	1	15	51.38
Japan	Kaito Fujii	5	2	1–0	64	26	27	17	2	11	39.53
Sweden	Vilmer Nygren	5	2	0–1	55	42	27	19	5	10	58.05
Norway	Alexander Johansen	3	4	–	49	39	25	19	2	11	65.33
Turkey	Muhammed Taha Zenit	2	5	–	41	40	16	26	5	5	82.17
New Zealand	Jed Nevill	1	6	–	27	44	18	23	3	6	86.52
Nigeria	Goodnews Charles	0	7	–	6	133	4	39	1	0	199.60

Round robin

Draw 1

Saturday, January 20, 10:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
United States (Ponzio)	0	2	0	1	0	3	1	1	8
Norway (Johansen)	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	3

Draw 2

Saturday, January 20, 18:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Johansen)	0	2	1	0	2	0	2	0	7
Sweden (Nygren)	3	0	0	3	0	3	0	1	10

Draw 3

Sunday, January 21, 14:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Nigeria (Charles)	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	0
Norway (Johansen)	2	5	4	6	2	2	X	X	21

Draw 4

Monday, January 22, 10:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
China (Li)	2	0	3	0	4	0	2	X	11
Norway (Johansen)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	X	4

Draw 5

Monday, January 22, 18:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Turkey (Zenit)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	0
Norway (Johansen)	0	2	0	0	1	1	1	X	5

Draw 6

Tuesday, January 23, 14:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Johansen)	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	X	5
New Zealand (Nevill)	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	X	2

Draw 7

Wednesday, January 24, 9:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Johansen)	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	X	4
Japan (Fujii)	1	0	1	0	2	0	4	X	8

Mixed doubles

Main article: Curling at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics – Mixed doubles

Group B	W	L	W–L	DSC
United States	4	0	–	66.14
Sweden	4	1	–	78.69
Norway	3	2	–	34.37
Slovenia	2	2	–	102.49
Ukraine	0	4	–	75.89
Qatar	0	4	–	142.76

Round robin

Draw 1

Friday, January 26, 18:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Sweden (Roxin / Meyerson)	0	0	0	1	4	1	0	1	7
Norway (Hausstaetter / Svorkmo Lundberg)	1	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	6

Draw 3

Saturday, January 27, 14:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Hausstaetter / Svorkmo Lundberg)	3	2	1	3	4	2	X	X	15
Qatar (Al-Fahad / Alnaimi)	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	0

Draw 5

Sunday, January 28, 10:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Ukraine (Lytvynenko / Shlyk)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	X	2
Norway (Hausstaetter / Svorkmo Lundberg)	1	2	2	0	1	1	0	X	7

Draw 10

Monday, January 29, 18:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Norway (Hausstaetter / Svorkmo Lundberg)	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	X	3
United States (Wendling / Paral)	1	0	0	2	4	0	1	X	8

Draw 12

Tuesday, January 30, 14:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Final
Slovenia (Kavčič / Omerzel)	0	3	0	0	1	0	X	X	4
Norway (Hausstaetter / Svorkmo Lundberg)	4	0	3	2	0	5	X	X	14

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Norway qualified a team of eighteen ice hockey players for the women's six-team tournament. ^[6]

Roster

Isaac Palmgren served as head coach, Maximillian Pettersson and Camilla Bakkene  [ no ] were assistant coaches, and Mia Christina Isdahl  [ no ] was goalkeeper coach. ^{[7] [8] [9]}

• Mille Are-Ekstrøm – A
• Tuva Are-Ekstrøm
• Cornelia Bax-Kristiansen
• Jenny Bekken
• Hanna Eline Engløkk
• Pia Helle
• Eneah Holm
• Vilde Mathilde Jolma-Stensland
• Ragnhild Klomstad
• Mari Brevik Kristiansen – C
• Fiona Angela Raya Larsen
• Thilde Elisabeth Lillenes-Taftø
• Shiva Nobari
• Maja Kvandal Raknes
• Julie Vilje Rosenlund
• Tyra Knedal Sawyer – A
• Timea Scurkova
• Elvira Stavnes

Summary

Key:

• GWS – Game winning shots
• E – Eliminated

Team	Event	Group stage			Semifinal	Final
		Opponent Score	Opponent Score	Rank	Opponent Score	Opponent Score	Rank
Norway	Women's tournament	Sweden L 1–5	Japan L 1–5	E	Did not advance		6

Women's tournament

Preliminary round, Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	SOW	SOL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	2	1	1	0	0	7	2	+5	5	Semifinals
2	Japan	2	1	0	1	0	6	3	+3	4
3	Norway	2	0	0	0	2	2	10	−8	0

Source: IOC ^{[10] [11]}

27 January 2024 11:00

Norway

1–5 (0–1, 0–1, 1–3)

Sweden

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 2,061

Game reference
	Tuva Are-Ekstrøm	Goalies	Tilde Wyckman	Referees: Ding Siwen Maria Gherardi Linesmen: Lara Fischer Anhelina Maifeld
	0–1 13:07 – Ytfeldt (Westerlind) (PP) 0–2 15:48 – Westerlind (Grillfors) 0–3 33:03 – Grillfors (Andersson, Westerlind) 0–4 34:23 – Österman (Carlsson, Berndtsson) Bax-Kristiansen (Helle, M. Are-Ekstrøm) (PP) – 37:53 1–4 1–5 39:23 – Svanefjord (Ytfeldt, Österman) (PP)
	6 min	Penalties	4.5 min
	12	Shots	35

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28 January 2024 11:00

Japan

5–1 (1–0, 0–0, 4–1)

Norway

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 2,837

Game reference
	Suzuno Fukuda	Goalies	Shiva Nobari	Referees: Ding Siwen Beatrice Fortin Linesmen: Laura Schmidlein Ilona Silander
	Terauchi (Odaira, Numabe) (PP) – 10:47 1–0 Numabe (Odaira, Terauchi) – 30:41 2–0 2–1 33:25 – Helle, (Klomstad, Bax-Kristiansen) (PP) Odaira (Numabe, Terauchi) – 36:17 3–1 Numabe (Terauchi, Odaira) – 40:12 4–1 Odaira (Numabe) – 43:04 5–1
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	41	Shots	13

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Norway qualified four ski jumpers (two per gender). ^[12]

Non-competing sports

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Norway originally qualified six alpine skiers, but declined all six quota spots. ^[13]

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics

Norway originally qualified six cross-country skiers, but declined all six quota spots. ^[14] The Norwegian Skiing Association felt the event was not a correct part of the development of athletes. ^[15]

See also

• Norway at the 2024 Summer Olympics

References

1. "48 utøvere tatt ut til Ungdoms-OL i Gangwon" [48 athletes selected for the Youth Olympics in Gangwon]. www.olympiatoppen.no (in Norwegian). Norwegian Olympic Committee . Retrieved 6 January 2024.
2. "Gangwon 2024 Opening Ceremony Flagbearers Information" (PDF). www.olympics.com/. International Olympic Committee (IOC). 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
3. "Åtte skiskyttere klare for ungdoms-OL 2024" [Eight biathletes ready for the 2024 Youth Olympics]. www.langrenn.com/ (in Norwegian). Wsportsmedia AB. 22 December 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
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8. "Ice Hockey, Women's 6-Team Tournament – Team Roster: NOR - Norway" (PDF). International Olympic Committee . 26 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
9. "Ice Hockey, Women's 6-Team Tournament, Preliminary round - Group A, Game 1 – Line-ups: NOR-SWE" (PDF). International Olympic Committee . 27 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
10. "Gangwon 2024: Ice Hockey - Schedule & Results". International Olympic Committee . Retrieved 27 January 2024.
11. "Ice Hockey, Women's 6-Team Tournament – Tournament Progress" (PDF). International Olympic Committee . 29 January 2024. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
12. "Ski Jumping quotas list for Youth Olympic Winter Games 2024". www.fis-ski.com/. International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS). 18 December 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
13. "Alpine Skiing quotas list for Youth Olympic Winter Games 2024". www.fis-ski.com/. International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS). 18 December 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
14. "Cross-Country quotas list for Youth Olympic Winter Games 2024". www.fis-ski.com/. International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS). 18 December 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
15. Sandholt, Ragna Kristine; Karlsen, Jørgen Ryggvik; Stenberg, Morten (22 December 2023). "Skiforbundet frykter utøverne vil miste "sulten" – får kritikk om OL-avgjørelse" [The Skiing Association fears the athletes will lose their "hunger" - receives criticism about the Olympic decision]. NRK (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norway. Retrieved 6 January 2024.