Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Netherlands)

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5	10	7th

The Netherlands took 81 athletes to the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wheelchair tennis player Esther Vergeer , the most successful athlete was the swimmer Mirjam de Koning-Peper with two gold and two silver medals.

Medals

Medal table

Medal table Netherlands
space	sport				total
1	Wheelchair tennis	2	3	1	6th
2	swim	2	2	2	6th
3	athletics	1	2	-	3
4th	Cycling	-	3	-	3
5	Table tennis	-	-	2	2
6th	Judo	-	-	1	1
	Sitting volleyball	-	-	1	1
Total		5	10	7th	22nd

Participants by sport

Archery

Women

• Eliane Salden-Otten

Football (teams of 7)

Men
Bart Adelaars Jeffrey Bruinier Stephan Lokhoff Joey Mense Pavel Statema Johannes Straatman Johannes Swinkels Rudy van Breemen Martijn van der Ven Hendrikus van Kempen Thieu van Son Johannes Vogd

Judo

Women

• Sanneke Vermeulen , 1 × (class up to 70 kg)

athletics

Women

• Marijke Mettes
• Annette Roozen , 2 × (100 meters, class T42; long jump, class F42)
• Marije Smits

Men

• Pieter Gruijters , 1 × (javelin throwing, class F55 / 56)
• Ronald Hertog
• Willem Noorduin
• Jos van der Donk
• Kenny van Weeghel

Cycling

Women

• Laura de Vaan
• Monique van der Vorst , 2 × (single road race, single time trial road; class HC A / HC B / HC C)

Men

• Mark Homan
• Alfred Stelleman *
• Jaco Tettelaar *
• Don van der Linden

| * Street race of the blind

Men's individual time trial class B&VI 1-3 (silver )
Alfred Stelleman Jaco Tettelaar

horse riding

Women

• Ineke de Groot
• Sabine Peters
• Petra van de Sande
• Sjerstin Vermeulen

Wheelchair basketball

Women
Patries Boekhoorn Sandra Braam Petra Garnier Inge Huitzing Cher Korver Roos Oosterbaan Fleur Pieterse Brenda Ramaekers Barbara van Bergen Elsbeth van Oostrom Carina Versloot Jitske Visser

Wheelchair tennis

Women

• Monique de Beer
• Jiske Griffioen *
• Korie Homan *, 1 × (single open)
• Dorrie Timmermans-van Hall
• Esther Vergeer *, 1 × (single open)
• Sharon Walraven *

Men

• Robin Ammerlaan , 1 × (single open)
• Maikel Scheffers , 1 × (single open)
• Eric Stuurman
• Bas van Erp
• Ronald Vink

| * Double competitions

Women Open (Gold )	Women Open (Silver )
Korie Homan Sharon Walraven	Jiske Griffioen Esther Vergeer

rowing

Women

• Joleen Hakker
• Anne van de Staak
• Nienke Vlotman

Men

• Paul de Jong
• Martin Lauriks

swim

Women

• Chantal Boonacker , 1 × (100 meters back, class S7)
• Mirjam de Koning-Peper , 2 × (50 meters freestyle, 100 meters back; class S6), 2 × (100 meters, 400 meters freestyle; class S6)
• Bernadette Massar
• Mendy Meenderink
• Lisette Teunissen

Men

• Michel Tielbeke
• Mike van der Zanden , 1 × (100 meter butterfly, class S10)

Sitting volleyball

Women (bronze )
Sanne Bakker Rika de Vries Karin Harmsen-Roosen Paula List Jolanda Slenter-Weijts Elvira Stinissen Josien Ten Thije-Voortman Karin van der Haar-Kramp Djoke van Marum Petra Westerhof

Table tennis

Women

• Kelly van Zon , 1 × (single, grade 6/7)

Men

• Nico Blok , 1 × (individual, grade 6)
• Tonnie Heijnen
• Tanning load

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )