Norway competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's twenty-fourth appearance at the Summer Olympics; Norway did not take part in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, due to the country's support for the United States boycott. The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports sent a total of 66 athletes to the Games, 34 men and 32 women, to compete in 14 sports. Women's handball was the only team-based sport in which Norway was represented in these Olympic games. There was only a single competitor in badminton, mountain biking, diving, equestrian dressage, fencing and wrestling.

The Norwegian team featured past Olympic champions, three of them defending (javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen, single sculls rower Olaf Tufte, who competed at his fifth Olympics, and the women's national handball team, led by Gøril Snorroeggen). Archer Bård Nesteng made his Olympic comeback in London after a twelve-year absence. Other notable Norwegian athletes featured Gambian-born sprinter Jaysuma Saidy Ndure, who finished fourth in the world championships, breaststroke swimmer Sara Nordenstam, who previously won bronze in Beijing, and sprint kayaker Mira Verås Larsen, who was the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

Norway left London with a total of 4 medals (2 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze), the lowest haul since Los Angeles. Among the nation's medalists were Eirik Verås Larsen, who recaptured his gold medal from Athens in men's sprint kayaking,^[1] and Bartosz Piasecki, who won Norway's first ever Olympic medal in fencing. The women's national handball team managed to defend its Olympic title from Beijing, after beating Montenegro in the final. Several Norwegian athletes, however, narrowly missed out of the medal standings, including defending champions Thorklidsen and Tufte, and middle-distance runner Henrik Ingebrigtsen.

Norway has qualified one archer for the men's individual event.

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Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Bård Nesteng	Men's individual	669	21	Kikuchi (JPN) (44) W 6–5	Wukie (USA) (12) W 6–2	Furukawa (JPN) (5) L 2–6	Did not advance

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Men

Track & road events

Field events

Women

Track & road events

Field events

Combined events – Heptathlon

Men

Norway has qualified 1 fencer.

Men

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Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Bartosz Piasecki	Individual épée	Grumier (FRA) W 14–13	Imre (HUN) W 15–7	Borel (FRA) W 15–14	Jung J-S (KOR) W 15–13	Limardo (VEN) L 10–15

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Norway women's handball team will participate in the Olympic Games as European Champions, World Champions,^[3] and as defending Olympic Champions.

• Women's team event – 1 team of 14 players

Women's tournament

Main article: Handball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The following is the Norway roster in the women's handball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[4]

Head coaches: Thorir Hergeirsson

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No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Kari Aalvik Grimsbø (1985-01-04)4 January 1985 (aged 27) 1.80 m Team Esbjerg 5 LB Ida Alstad (1985-06-13)13 June 1985 (aged 27) 1.72 m Byåsen HE 6 P Heidi Løke (1982-12-12)12 December 1982 (aged 29) 1.77 m Győri ETO KC 7 RB Tonje Nøstvold (1985-05-07)7 May 1985 (aged 27) 1.78 m Byåsen HE 8 CB Karoline Dyhre Breivang (1980-05-10)10 May 1980 (aged 32) 1.72 m Larvik HK 9 LB Kristine Lunde-Borgersen (1980-03-30)30 March 1980 (aged 32) 1.83 m IK Våg 11 LW Kari Mette Johansen (1979-01-11)11 January 1979 (aged 33) 1.72 m Larvik HK 13 P Marit Malm Frafjord (1985-11-25)25 November 1985 (aged 26) 1.82 m Viborg HK 15 RB Linn Jørum Sulland (1984-07-15)15 July 1984 (aged 28) 1.78 m Larvik HK 16 GK Katrine Lunde Haraldsen (1980-03-30)30 March 1980 (aged 32) 1.81 m Győri ETO KC 18 RW Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren (1984-08-01)1 August 1984 (aged 27) 1.75 m Larvik HK 21 CB Gøril Snorroeggen (1985-02-15)15 February 1985 (aged 27) 1.77 m Team Esbjerg 22 RW Amanda Kurtović (1991-07-25)25 July 1991 (aged 21) 1.79 m Viborg HK 23 LW Camilla Herrem (1986-10-08)8 October 1986 (aged 25) 1.66 m Byåsen HE

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Group play

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Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
France	5	4	1	0	125	103	+22	9	Quarter-finals
South Korea	5	3	1	1	136	130	+6	7
Spain	5	3	1	1	119	114	+5	7
Norway	5	2	1	2	118	120	−2	5
Denmark	5	1	0	4	113	121	−8	2
Sweden	5	0	0	5	108	131	−23	0

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28 July 2012 21:15	Norway	23 – 24	France	Copper Box, London Attendance: 3,968[5] Referees: Krstić, Ljubić (SLO)
	Alstad 5	(12–17)	Baudouin, Signaté 5
	3× 2×	Report	4× 5× 1×

30 July 2012 21:15	Sweden	21 – 24	Norway	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,459[6] Referees: Coulibaly, Diabate (CIV)
	Torstenson 6	(9–14)	Koren, Sulland 5
	3× 3×	Report	3× 3×

1 August 2012 09:30	Norway	27 – 27	South Korea	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,178[7] Referees: Nachevski, Nikolov (MKD)
	Sulland 11	(13–15)	three players 6
	3×	Report	2× 3×

3 August 2012 21:15	Denmark	23 – 24	Norway	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,720[8] Referees: Horáček, Novotný (CZE)
	Nørgaard 9	(11–12)	Løke 6
	3× 2×	Report	3×

5 August 2012 19:30	Norway	20 – 25	Spain	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,345[9] Referees: Krstić, Ljubić (SLO)
	Koren 6	(11–11)	Alonso 7
	3× 4×	Report	3× 4× 1×

Quarter-final

7 August 2012 10:00	Brazil	19 – 21	Norway	Copper Box, London Attendance: 4,549[10] Referees: Bonaventura, Bonaventura (FRA)
	do Nascimento 5	(13–9)	Koren 5
	3× 3×	Report	2× 1×

Semi-final

9 August 2012 17:00	Norway	31 – 25	South Korea	Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,274[11] Referees: Gubica, Milošević (CRO)
	Løke 8	(18–15)	Gwon Han-na 7
	3× 2×	Report	3× 2×

Final

11 August 2012 20:30	Norway	26 – 23	Montenegro	Basketball Arena, London Attendance: 9,739[12] Referees: Bonaventura, Bonaventura (FRA)
	Sulland 10	(13–10)	Bulatović 10
	3× 3×	Report	3× 7× 1×

Final rank

 Gold

Norway has so far qualified boats for the following events

Men

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Norway has qualified 1 boat for each of the following events

Men

Women

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race;

The following quota places have been qualified for the Norwegian shooting squad at the Games;^[13]

Men

Women

Norwegian swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[14][15]

Men

Women

Norway has qualified one quota.

Men's Greco-Roman

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Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Stig André Berge	−60 kg	Bye	Aliyev (AZE) L 1–3 PP	Did not advance					13

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