Norway at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Norway at the 1968 Winter Olympics
IOC code	NOR
NOC	Norwegian Olympic Committee and Confederation of Sports
Website	www.idrett.no (in Norwegian)
in Grenoble, France 6–18 February, 1968
Competitors	65 (54 men, 11 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Bjørn Wirkola (Ski jumping)
Medals Ranked 1st	Gold 6 Silver 6 Bronze 2 Total 14
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Norway competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Magnar Solberg	Biathlon	Men's 20 km
Gold	Harald Grønningen	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Gold	Ole Ellefsæter	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Gold	Odd Martinsen Pål Tyldum Harald Grønningen Ole Ellefsæter	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Gold	Babben Enger Damon Inger Aufles Berit Mørdre Lammedal	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Gold	Fred Anton Maier	Speed skating	Men's 5000m
Silver	Ola Wærhaug Olav Jordet Magnar Solberg Jon Istad	Biathlon	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Silver	Odd Martinsen	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km
Silver	Berit Mørdre Lammedal	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Silver	Magne Thomassen	Speed skating	Men's 500m
Silver	Ivar Eriksen	Speed skating	Men's 1500m
Silver	Fred Anton Maier	Speed skating	Men's 10,000m
Bronze	Inger Aufles	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Bronze	Lars Grini	Ski jumping	Men's large hill

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Otto Tschudi	Downhill					DNF	–
Lasse Hamre						2:06.93	34
Jon Terje Øverland						2:05.34	23
Bjarne Strand						2:03.20	17
Otto Tschudi	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Bjarne Strand		1:49.69	33	1:51.48	32	3:41.17	29
Jon Terje Øverland		1:49.30	32	1:50.27	18	3:39.57	25
Håkon Mjøen		1:47.63	23	1:50.71	21	3:38.34	19

Men's slalom

Athlete	Heat 1		Heat 2		Final
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Håkon Mjøen	52.36	1 QF	–	–	49.91	9	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Bjarne Strand	54.18	1 QF	–	–	51.69	21	55.69	24	1:47.38	22
Jon Terje Øverland	51.93	2 QF	–	–	51.51	18	53.37	22	1:44.88	17
Lasse Hamre	53.33	2 QF	–	–	51.84	23	52.31	18	1:44.15	14

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Aud Hvammen	Giant Slalom					2:01.30	28
Aud Hvammen	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Dikke Eger-Bergmann		43.50	15	DNF	–	DNF	–

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 1	Rank
20 km	Ragnar Tveiten	1'16:17.4	11	1'27:17.4	26
	Ola Wærhaug	1'19:12.9	3	1'22:12.9	13
	Jon Istad	1'19:43.1	2	1'21:43.1	11
	Magnar Solberg	1'13:45.9	0	1'13:45.9

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
	Misses 2	Time	Rank
Ola Wærhaug Olav Jordet Magnar Solberg Jon Istad	5	2'14:50.2

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

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Reidar Hjermstad	50:25.7	17
	Odd Martinsen	48:59.3	8
	Pål Tyldum	48:42.0	7
	Harald Grønningen	47:54.2
30 km	Gjermund Eggen	1'43:29.6	34
	Harald Grønningen	1'38:26.7	13
	Lorns Skjemstad	1'37:53.4	11
	Odd Martinsen	1'36:28.9
50 km	Odd Martinsen	2'33:51.4	18
	Reidar Hjermstad	2'31:01.8	8
	Pål Tyldum	2'29:26.7	4
	Ole Ellefsæter	2'28:45.8

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Odd Martinsen Pål Tyldum Harald Grønningen Ole Ellefsæter	2'08:33.5

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Tone Dahle	18:09.1	28
	Babben Enger-Damon	17:43.3	21
	Berit Mørdre-Lammedal	17:11.9	10
	Inger Aufles	16:58.1	7
10 km	Katharina Mo-Berge	39:35.4	17
	Babben Enger-Damon	38:54.4	8
	Inger Aufles	37:59.9
	Berit Mørdre-Lammedal	37:54.6

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Inger Aufles Babben Enger-Damon Berit Mørdre-Lammedal	57:30.0

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Olympics

First round

East Germany - Norway 3:1 (2:1, 1:0, 0:0)
Goalscorers: Joachim Ziesche, Lothar Fuchs, Peter Prusa - Odd Syversen.

Consolation round

Teams in this group play for 9th-14th places.

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
9	Yugoslavia	5	5	0	0	33	9	10
10	Japan	5	4	1	0	27	12	8
11	Norway	5	3	2	0	15	15	6
12	Romania	5	2	3	0	22	23	4
13	Austria	5	1	4	0	12	27	2
14	France	5	0	5	0	9	32	0

Norway – France 4:1 (1:1, 2:0, 1:0)
Goalscorers: Hagensen, Smefjell, Dalsören, Mikkelsen – Liberman.

Japan – Norway 4:0 (2:0, 2:0, 0:0)
Goalscorers: Okajima 2, Ebina, Araki.

Norway – Austria 5:4 (3:1, 2:1, 0:2)
Goalscorers: Dalsören 2, Bjölbak, Olsen, Hansen – Schupp 2, Weingärtner, St. John.

Norway – Romania 4:3 (2:2, 1:1, 1:0)
Goalscorers: Bergeid, Olsen, Syversen, Mikkelsen – Pana, Iuliu Szabo, Czaka.

Yugoslavia – Norway 3:2 (1:1, 0:0, 2:1)
Goalscorers: Hiti, Franz Smolej, Ivo Jan - Dalsören, Bjölbak.

Contestants

• Team Roster

• Kåre Østensen
• Svein Hansen
• Thor Martinsen
• Terje Steen
• Odd Syversen
• Tor Gundersen
• Christian Petersen
• Per Skjerwen Olsen
• Georg Smefjell
• Olav Dalsøren
• Arne Mikkelsen
• Steinar Bjølbakk
• Svein Haagensen
• Terje Thoen
• Bjørn Johansen
• Rodney Riise
• Trygve Bergeid

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rolf Greger Strøm	59.04	22	59.28	21	58.67	15	2:56.99	19
Jan-Axel Strøm	58.84	18	59.26	20	59.04	20	2:57.14	21

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1968 Winter Olympics

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
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Kåre Olav Berg	Individual	69.0	70.0	204.4	15	53:57.8	171.20	34	375.60	28
Gjert Andersen		72.5	72.5	221.2	7	1'00:28.3	102.49	41	323.69	40
Mikkel Dobloug		69.0	68.0	192.4	26	51:55.8	194.82	21	391.90	19
Markus Svendsen		71.0	72.0	210.8	12	54:19.4	167.05	35	377.85	27

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Jan Olaf Roaldset	Normal hill	73.0	99.6	73.0	98.1	197.7	21
Jo Inge Bjørnebye		73.5	101.4	67.0	89.0	190.4	31
Lars Grini		74.5	104.5	73.0	101.6	206.1	13
Bjørn Wirkola		76.5	108.7	72.5	103.3	212.0	4
Bjørn Wirkola	Large hill	93.0	102.1	87.0	87.2	189.3	23
Bent Tomtum		98.5	108.3	95.0	103.9	212.2	5
Jan Olaf Roaldset		100.5	109.6	91.5	93.0	202.6	13
Lars Grini		99.0	111.5	93.5	102.8	214.3

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Johan Lind	42.3	29
	Roar Grønvold	41.1	13
	Arne Herjuaune	40.7	5
	Magne Thomassen	40.5
1500 m	Svein-Erik Stiansen	2:05.5	7
	Bjørn Tveter	2:05.2	5
	Magne Thomassen	2:05.1	4
	Ivar Eriksen	2:05.0
5000 m	Svein-Erik Stiansen	7:39.6	12
	Per Willy Guttormsen	7:27.8	4
	Fred Anton Maier	7:22.4 WR
10,000 m	Magne Thomassen	15:44.9	7
	Per Willy Guttormsen	15:32.6	4
	Fred Anton Maier	15:23.9

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	47.0	11
	Kirsti Biermann	46.8	8
	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	46.7	6
1000 m	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	1:36.8	13
	Kirsti Biermann	1:35.0	9
	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	1:34.5	6
1500 m	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	2:30.7	17
	Kari Kåring	2:29.9	14
	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	2:25.2	4
3000 m	Kari Kåring	5:20.6	17
	Lisbeth Korsmo-Berg	5:19.6	16
	Sigrid Sundby-Dybedahl	5:13.3	9

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1968, full results by sports-reference.com