Olympic Winter Games 2002 / Participant (Netherlands)

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In 2002, the Netherlands took part in the Winter Olympics for the 17th time. The country entered with a delegation of 27 athletes who competed in four different disciplines. Three gold and five silver medals could be won in speed skating. This achieved ninth place in the medal table.

Flag bearer

The snowboarder Nicolien Sauerbreij wore the flag of the Netherlands during the opening ceremony in the Rice-Eccles Stadium , at the closing ceremony it was carried by the speed skater Gerard van Velde .

Medalist

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Jochem Uytdehaage	Speed ​​skating	5000m men
Jochem Uytdehaage	Speed ​​skating	10000m men
Gerard van Velde	Speed ​​skating	1000m men

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Renate Groenewold	Speed ​​skating	3000m women
Gretha Smit	Speed ​​skating	5000m women
Jan Bos	Speed ​​skating	1000m men
Gianni Rummy	Speed ​​skating	10000m men
Jochem Uytdehaage	Speed ​​skating	1500m men

Overview of the participants

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Women, twos

• Eline Jurg , Nannet Kiemel-Karenbeld

  6th place (1: 39.18 min)

• Ilse Broeders , Jeannette Pennings

  10th place (1: 39.37 min)

Men, twos

• Arend Glas , Marcel Welten

  16th place (3: 13.08 min)

Men, foursome

• Timothy Beck , Arend Glas , Arnold van Calker , Marcel Welten

  17th place (3: 10.38 min)

Speed ​​skating

Women

• Tonny de Jong

  1500 m: 7th place (1: 56.02 min)

  3000 m: 5th place (4:00, 49 min)

  5000 m: 7th place (7: 01.17 min)

• Renate Groenewold

  1500 m: abandonment

  3000 m: silver (3: 58.94 min)

• Andrea Nuyt

  500 m: 4th place (75.37 pts.)

  1000 m: 8th place (1: 14.65 min)

• Gretha Smit

  3000 m: 11th place (4: 07.41 min)

  5000 m: silver (6: 49.22 min)

• Annamarie Thomas

  1000 m: 15th place (1: 15.20 min)

  1500 m: 11th place (1: 56.45 min)

• Marianne Timmer

  500 m: 8th place (76.17 pts.)

  1000 m: 4th place (1: 14.45 min)

  1500 m: 21st place (1: 59.60 min)

• Marja Vis

  5000 m: 13th place (7: 19.08 min)

• Marieke Wijsman

  500 m: 17th place (77.10 pts.)

  1000 m: 18th place (1: 16.48 min)

Men

• Jan Bos

  500 m: 9th place (69.86 pts.)

  1000 m: silver (1: 07.53 min)

  1500 m: 7th place (1: 45.63 min)

• Bob de Jong

  5000 m: 30th place (6: 43.97 min)

  10000 m: 15th place (13: 48.93 min)

• Ids Postma

  500 m: 27th place (72.49 pts.)

  1000 m: 17th place (1: 09.15 min)

  1500 m: 5th place (1: 45.41 min)

• Rintje Ritsma

  1500 m: 9th place (1: 45.86 min)

• Gianni Rummy

  10000 m: silver (13: 10.03 min)

• Jochem Uytdehaage

  1500 m: silver (1: 44.57 min)

  5000 m: gold (6: 14.66 min)

  10000 m: gold (12: 58.92 min)

• Gerard van Velde

  500 m: 4th place (69.49 pts.)

  1000 m: gold (1: 07.18 min)

• Carl Verheijen

  5000 m: 6th place (6: 24.71 min)

• Wennemar's heirs

  500 m: 10th place (69.89 pts.)

  1000 m: 5th place (1: 07.95 min)

Short track

Men

• Cees Juffermans

  500 m: 20th place (43.253 s, qualification)

  1000 m: 18th place (1: 29.249 min, qualification)

  1500 m: 8th place (2: 20.397 min, B final)

Snowboard

Women

• Nicolien Sauerbreij

  Parallel giant slalom: 24th place

Web links

• Netherlands at the Olympic Winter Games 2002. in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Medal table on sports-reference.com (English). Retrieved July 8, 2012