Norway at the 1980 Winter Paralympics

Norway at the Paralympic Games
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At the 1980 Winter Paralympics in Geilo
Competitors	37
Medals Rank: 1	Gold 23	Silver 21	Bronze 10	Total 54
Paralympic history (summary)
Summer Games
1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008
Winter Games
1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006 • 2010

Norway sent a delegation to the second Winter Paralympics in 1980 in Geilo, Norway. The country was represented by thirty seven athletes, the second most of any nation after Austria. They sent twenty seven men and ten women.^[1] Norway won fifty four medals, the most of any country at the games. They won twenty three gold medals, twenty one silver and ten bronze.^[2]

Norway was able to send athletes of all phyisical disabilities, as all classes of athletes with physical disabilities were able to participate.^[3]

References

1. ^ 1980 Winter Paralympic participants
2. ^ 1980 Winter Paralympics medals
3. ^ Geilo 1980