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 | |||||
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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 | |
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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 | ||||||
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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 )