Norway competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. They won a total of eight medals; three gold, two silver and three bronze. Sarah Louise Rung led the team by winning five medals in swimming; two gold, one silver and two bronze.

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.^[1][2] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.^[3]

The country qualified to participate in the team event at the Rio Games.^[4]

Individual

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Athlete	Horse	Event	Final
			Result	Rank
Jens Lasse Dokkan	Cypres	Individual Championship test grade Ia	70.087	9
Heidi Løken	Armano	Individual Championship test grade IV	62.333	7
		Individual Freestyle test grade IV	66.900	6
Ann Cathrin Lubbe	Donatello	Individual Championship test grade III	72.878
		Individual Freestyle test grade III	73.800
Birgitte Reitan	Steffi Graf	Individual Championship test grade Ia	68.130	13

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Team

"#" indicates that the score of this rider does not count in the team competition, since only the best three results of a team are counted.

One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top eight finish at the 2015 FISA World Rowing Championships in a medal event. Norway qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the AS Women's Single Sculls event with a third-place finish in a time of 05:31.940.^[5][6]

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Norway qualified a boat for two of the three sailing classes at the Games through their results at the 2014 Disabled Sailing World Championships held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Places were earned in the solo 2.4mR event and a crew also qualified for the three-person Sonar class.^[7]

The first opportunity to qualify for shooting at the Rio Games took place at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships in Suhl. Shooters earned spots for their NPC. Norway earned a qualifying spot at this event in the R6 – 50m Air Pistol Mixed SH1 event as a result of the performance Ove Foss. Norway also earned a spot in the R5 – 10m Air Rifle Prone Mixed SH2 based on Heidi Kristin Sørlie-Rogne's performance. Norway's third spot was earned by Sonja Jennie Tobiassen in the R4 – 10m Air Rifle Standing Mixed SH2 event. Amanda Dybendal earned Norway's third spot for women and fourth overall after her performance in the R5 – 10m Air Rifle Prone Mixed SH2 event.^[8][9][10]

The last direct qualifying event for Rio in shooting took place at the 2015 IPC Shooting World Cup in Fort Benning in November. Monica Lillehagen earned a qualifying spot for their country at this competition in the R2 Women's 10m Air Rifle Standing SH1 event.^[9][11]

Men

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Andreas Skår Bjørnstad	400 m freestyle S7	4:59.23	4 Q	4:53.61
	50 m butterfly S7	34.77	12	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke SB6	1:28.78	4 Q	1:26.07	4
	200 m individual medley SM7	2:50.76	8 Q	2:48.06	8
Adam Ismael Wenham	200 m freestyle S14	2:07.56	15	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke SB14	1:09.59	5 Q	1:08.44	5
	200 m individual medley SM14	2:22.85	15	did not advance

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Women

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Sarah Louise Rung	50 m freestyle S5	41.68	7 Q	40.42	7
	100 m freestyle S5	1:26.41	6 Q	1:25.04	6
	200 m freestyle S5	2:54.73	1 Q	2:51.37
	50 m backstroke S5	49.37	6	45.40
	50 m butterfly S5	50.63	7 Q	45.67
	100 m breaststroke SB4	1:45.46	1 Q	1:44.94
	200 m individual medley SM5	3:19.54	1 Q	3:15.83

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Men

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Athlete	Event	Group			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Tommy Urhaug	Singles class 5	Fetir (EGY) W 3–0	Savant Aira (FRA) W 3–0	1 Q	Bye	Cheng (TPE) W 3–1	Cao (CHN) L 0–3	Palikuca (SRB) L 1–3	4

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Women

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Athlete	Event	Group			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Aida Husic Dahlen	Singles class 8	Mao (CHN) L 0–3	Medina (PHI) L 2–3	3	—		did not advance

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• Norway at the 2016 Summer Olympics