Olympic history of the Netherlands

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The Netherlands , whose NOK , the NOC * NSF emerged in 1993 from the merger of the Dutch Olympic Committee and the Dutch Sports Federation , has been taking part in the Summer Olympics since 1900. Since 1928, athletes have also been sent to the winter games. In 1956, the Netherlands boycotted because of the invasion of the Soviet Union in Hungary to take part in the Games in Melbourne , but participated in the Equestrian Games in Stockholm in part.

history

With Amsterdam in 1928, the Netherlands already hosted the Summer Olympics once.

A total of 2791 athletes, including 772 women, competed. (Status: 2014) Athletes from the Netherlands have won 395 medals so far. The cyclist Maurice Peeters celebrated his first Olympic victory at the Olympic Summer Games in 1920 .

The youngest member of a team from the Netherlands was the gymnast Monique Bolleboom in 1976 , who started at the age of 13. The rider Alexis Pantchoulidzew was the oldest participant in Dutch Olympic history at the age of 67 in 1956.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Flag bearer	Attendees	Men	Women	sports
1900 Paris		35	35		7th
1906 Athens		16	16		2
1908 London	Jan de Boer	113	113	0	11
1912 Stockholm	Jan Ploeger	33	33	0	7th
1920 Stockholm	JH van Dijk (Official)	130	129	1	15th
1924 Paris	Adrianus de Jong	177	168	9	17th
1928 Amsterdam	Sam Olij	266	222	44	17th
1932 Los Angeles	Charles Pahud de Mortanges	45	30th	15th	9
1936 Berlin	Rein de Waal	165	145	20th	15th
1948 London	Wim Landman	149	115	34	18th
1952 Helsinki	Simon de Wit (Official)	104	78	26th	14th
1956 Stockholm		1	1	0	1
1960 Rome	Jan Willem van Erven Dorens	110	80	30th	13
1964 Tokyo	Anton Geesink	125	105	20th	12
1968 Mexico City	Fred van Dorp	107	82	25th	11
1972 Munich	Nico Spits	119	90	29	16
1976 Montreal	André Bolhuis	108	72	36	11
1980 Moscow		75	57	18th	10
1984 Los Angeles	Ton Buunk	136	82	54	15th
1988 Seoul	Eric Swinkels	147	93	54	17th
1992 Barcelona	Carina Benninga	201	117	84	20th
1996 Atlanta	Nico Rienks	239	137	102	19th
2000 Sydney	Anky van Grunsven	231	147	84	21st
2004 Athens	Mark Huizinga	210	134	76	22nd
2008 Beijing	Jeroen Delmee	237	139	98	20th
2012 London	Dorian van Rijsselberghe	173	94	79	19th
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Jeroen Dubbeldam	242	107	135	21st

Winter games

year	Flag bearer	Attendees	Men	Women	sports
1928 St. Moritz	Edwin Louis Teixeira de Mattos	7th	7th	0	2
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Sam Dunlop	8th	7th	1	3
1948 St. Moritz	Jan Langedijk	4th	4th	0	1
1952 Oslo	Wim van der Voort	11	9	2	3
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	Kees Broekman	8th	6th	2	2
1960 Squaw Valley	Kees Broekman	7th	5	2	2
1964 Innsbruck	Ard Schenk	6th	4th	2	2
1968 Grenoble	Christina Baas-Kaiser	9	4th	5	1
1972 Sapporo	Atje Keulen-Deelstra	11	5	6th	2
1976 Innsbruck	Dianne de Leeuw	7th	3	4th	2
1980 Lake Placid	Piet Kleine	29	25th	4th	2
1984 Sarajevo	Hilbert van der Duim	13	9	4th	2
1988 Calgary	Jan Ykema	11	6th	5	1
1992 Albertville	Leo Visser	19th	9	10	2
1994 Lillehammer	Christine Aaftink	21st	13	8th	4th
1998 Nagano	Carla Zijlstra	22nd	10	12	3
2002 Salt Lake City	Nicolien Sauerbreij	27	14th	13	4th
2006 Turin	Jan Bos	33	16	17th	4th
2010 Vancouver	Timothy Beck	32	15th	17th	4th
2014 Sochi	Jorien ter Mors	39	20th	19th	4th

Medalist

→ See: List of Olympic medalists from the Netherlands

Web links

Commons : Olympic history of the Netherlands  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The Netherlands in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• The Netherlands on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)