Olympic Winter Games 1936 / Participant (Netherlands)

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The Netherlands took part in the IV Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 with a delegation of 8 athletes. It was the Netherlands' second participation in the Winter Olympics since 1928 . The athletes participated in 3 sports and could not win a medal.

Participants by sport

Bobsleigh

While Willem Gevers and Samuel Dunlop had a very good run in the second run and came in fourth, the other runs were rather mediocre, so that the Dutch duo came in tenth in the end.

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Willem Gevers Samuel Dunlop	Two-man bobsleigh	1: 31.41	15th	1: 24.99	10	1: 25.71	4th	1: 26.00	12	5: 48.11	10

Speed ​​skating

The only speed skater who came close to medals was Jan Langedijk . Over the 5000 meters he just missed a medal with fourth place and over the 10,000 meters he finished sixth.

Athlete	Event	Race
		time	rank
Ben Blaisse	500 m	46.9	27
Lou Dijkstra	500 m	46.7	24
	1500 m	2: 27.2	20th
	5000 m	8: 51.5	16
	10,000 m	18: 23.6	20th
Roelof Koops	1500 m	2: 30.0	30th
	5000 m	8: 48.5	13
	10,000 m	18: 11.5	17th
Jan Langedijk	500 m	46.7	24
	1500 m	2: 24.6	14th
	5000 m	8: 32.0	4th
	10,000 m	17: 43.7	6th
Dolf van der Scheer	500 m	45.7	14th
	1500 m	2: 23.2	9
	5000 m	8: 43.3	10
	10,000 m	18: 04.9	16

Alpine skiing

Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye qualified for the first ever Alpine competitions and ended up in 14th place.

athlete	competition	Downhill		slalom					Total
		time	rank	Run 1		Run 2		Rank	Total points	rank
				time	Penalty time	time	Penalty time
Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye	Alpine combination	6: 09.8 min	13	1: 26.5 min	-	1: 59.9 min	0:06 min	13	76.09	14th

Web links

• Netherlands at the 1936 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )