Norway has nice possibilities for wintersport and a lot of people enjoy outdoor life, so the increasing interest for Siberian Husky wasn`t suprising.The Norwegian Siberian Husky Club was formed in 1972. In the beginning, most people used their Siberians to pull pulkas or nordic-sleds with a skier following, but among the members of the club, the interest in the sport of sled-dogracing began to form. This sport became very popular and a lot of races took place during the 70ties. More imports arrived, some more influental in breeding than others. Up to 1981 about 50 dogs were imported to Norway. After that, a limited number of dogs has arrived. Norway has like England had strict quarantene-rules ,which has made it quite expensive to import dogs. Today, there is still 4 months quarantine from countries outside Europe, but since 1994, european dogs can now be taken in with rabiesshots and bloodtests.Norwegian mushers compete abroad and foreigners race here.

The most importent lift of the scandinavian Siberian-world came when the swede Ingvar De Forest, Snowtrail kennel, took a roundtrip to USA and Canada. and bought 11 dogs. (3 Zeros, 3 from Igloo Pak, 1 from Arctic Trail, 4 Anadyrdogs) With him was Karsten Grønås, Vargevass kennel, who bought 2 males.(Yeso Pac, Arctic Trail)

Some of these imports from 1978 are absolute key dogs in Norwegian and Swedish Siberian pedigrees today The most important ones are the two Vargevass-imports, Arctic Trails Fang and Yeso Pac`s el Diablo, and from the swedish owned dogs, the most influental has been Zeros Dargo, Zeros Cider, Zero`s Milky Way, Alaskans Mona of Anadyr, Arctic Trails Amber, Igloo Paks Beaver, Igloo Paks Chena, Igloo Paks Shagtoolik.

There have been some major debates in the Siberian-world over the years. The first one was about show-dogs versus racing dogs. There were a number of show –line dogs in Scandinavia in the 70ties, but with the interest of racing growing, they never became very popular. Then the discussion was about nordic racing. The racerules called for quite a large weight to pull in the pulkaraces, and the nordic competitors bred for very large Siberians in order to be competitive with their dogs. Finally the weights were reduced and more people started with sled-dog racing so the problem died out.

Finally came a really hot debate with the arrival of the Zero imports, which really stired up the club. Were they purebred Siberians or not? This debate continued until 1985, when it was opened for racing with all kinds of dogs, purebreeds or not. Most Zero-line breeders switched to alaskan huskies, and this debate cooled off.  Influental Zeroimports in Norway was besides the swedish dogs, Zeros Bumper, Sparkey, Gleemer, `Spaceman, Blizzard, Ruh-Hoe and Jeeree.

The highest numbers of Siberians born in Norway was in 1984, when 565 dogs were registered. Sled-dog racing increasingly popular and it was just before the races were opened. Since then, the number of Siberians gradually went down and t has today stabilized at approximatly 150 dogs registered a year.

The last american imports that came was Ash of Markovo, imorted by Karsten Grønås and Ezra of Sepp-Alta imported by Øivind Nord. Ash has been quite influental in Scandinavian breeding, Ezra in less extent.

The most influental Norwegian Kennel is  Vargevass kennel. Karsten Grønås got his first Siberian in 1965 and has stayed with the breed ever since. He has allways had one of Norways largest Siberian kennels and has been a leading racer and has exported a number of dogs for years.

Other important dogs one find in the norwegian pedigrees were bred by people who raced with Siberians before and now are (and were) well known open-racers, like Asbjørn Erdal Aase, Kjetil Hillestad (Speedos kennel) and Roger Legård (Teamsters kennel)

A person who imported a number of dogs which has influented Scandinavian breeding, were Christen R Andersen. (Finnemarkas kennel).
Another kennel that has exported a number of dogs and is influental in many recent norwegian kennels are Vargteam (Ole Dag Løvold)

The interest of racing with pure bred dogs has been very low in Norway since the races were opened. Pepole who was interested in competitive racing went into alaskans and gun-dogs, people interested in recreational mushing choosed pure bred polardogs. Norway has so much nice wilderness areas and a lot of people ownes a Siberian team and enjoys mushing without ever setting foot in a race.  In Norway at the moment, the interest of sprintracing with siberians are almost zero The interest for long distance mushing are increasing in the pure-bred comunity and the popular Femundrace, 400 and 600 kmtrs, and also Finmarksløpet, 500 and 1000kmtrs, are having a nubmer of norwegian and foreign siberian teams every year.
The swedish purebred race Polardistans is also getting more and more popular
In Sweden, there is a number of competitive sprint racers and a few is starting to get interested in distancemushing

Another typical Norwegian/Swedish thing is that the interest of showing Siberians are very low. At the Kennel Klub shows there are usually just a handfull of dogs entered, sometimes up to twenty something. At the Norwegian Siberian Husky Club Show there are usually between 40-60 dogs entered. There is a new interest in showline-dogs these days and some imports has arrived Norway and Sweden. But the majority of dogs in all Scandinavian countries are still working-line dogs.Most dogs  is a mix of all the workinglines

The Norwegian Siberian Husky Club has about 230 members and the club arrange one yearly Spesciality-show and one winter-race with both sprint and middle-distance,The NSHK-race is the only pure-breed race for Siberians.