1968 Winter Olympics / Participant (Netherlands)

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The Netherlands took part in the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, with a delegation of nine athletes, four men and five women.

It was the eighth time the Netherlands had taken part in the Winter Olympics since 1928 .

Flag bearer

The speed skater Christina "Stien" Baas-Kaiser was chosen as the flag bearer of the Dutch team for the opening ceremony.

Medals

With three won gold, silver and bronze medals, the Dutch team took 6th place in the medals table .

gold

Carolina Geijssen

• Kees Verkerk : speed skating, men, 1,500 m
• Carolina Geijssen : speed skating, women, 1,000 m
• Ans Schut : speed skating, women, 3,000 m

silver

• Ard Schenk : speed skating, men, 1,500 m
• Kees Verkerk : speed skating, men, 5,000 m
• Carolina Geijssen: speed skating, women, 1,500 m

bronze

• Peter Nottet : speed skating, men, 5,000 m
• Christina Baas-Kaiser : speed skating, women, 1,500 m
• Stien Baas-Kaiser: speed skating, women, 3,000 m

Participants by sport

Speed ​​skating

Ladies

• Christina Baas-Kaiser

  500 m: 14th place - 47.6 s

  1000 m: 10th place - 1: 35.2 min

  1500 m: - 2: 24.5 min

  3000 m: - 5:01.3 min

• Ellie van den Brom

  500 m: 5th place - 46.6 s

  1000 m: 13th place - 1: 36.8 min

• Wilhelmina Burgmeijer

  500 m: 16th place - 47.8 s

  3000 m: 5th place - 5: 05.1 min

• Carry Geijssen

  1000 m: - 1: 32.6 min

  1500 m: - 2: 22.7 min

• To Schut

  1500 m: 12th place - 2: 28.3 min

  3000 m: - 4: 56.2 min

Men's

• Jan Bols

  500 m: DNF

  1500 m: 16th place - 2: 07.8 min

  5000 m: 8th place - 7: 33.1 min

  10,000 m: 13th place - 16: 09.5 min

• Peter Nottet

  500 m: 30th place - 42.2 s

  1500 m: 9th place - 2: 06.3 min

  5000 m: - 7: 25.5 min

  10,000 m: 8th place - 15: 54.7 min

• Ard Schenk

  500 m: 13th place - 41.1 s

  1500 m: - 2: 05.0 min

• Kees Verkerk

  500 m: 33rd place - 42.6 s

  1500 m: - 2: 03.4 min

  5000 m: - 7: 23.2 min

  10,000 m: 5th place - 15: 33.9 min

Web links

• Dutch Olympic team 1968 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )