Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Netherlands at the Olympic Games
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
Competitors	243
Flag bearer	Anky van Grunsven (opening) Inge de Bruijn (closing)
Medals Rank: 8	Gold 12	Silver 9	Bronze 4	Total 25
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The Netherlands competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

Medals Per Day
Day	Date				Total
Day 1	16th	0	1	0	1
Day 2	17th	1	0	0	1
Day 3	18th	1	0	0	1
Day 4	19th	1	0	1	2
Day 5	20th	2	0	1	3
Day 6	21st	1	1	0	2
Day 7	22nd	0	0	1	1
Day 8	23rd	1	1	0	2
Day 9	24th	0	2	0	2
Day 10	25th	0	0	0	0
Day 11	26th	1	0	0	1
Day 12	27th	0	1	0	1
Day 13	28th	0	1	0	1
Day 14	29th	1	1	1	3
Day 15	30th	2	0	0	2
Day 16	1st	1	1	0	2
Total		12	9	4	25
Medals Per Sport
Sport					Total
Archery		0	0	1	1
Cycling		3	1	0	4
Equestrian		2	2	0	4
Field hockey		1	0	1	2
Judo		1	0	0	1
Rowing		0	3	0	3
Sailing		0	1	0	1
Swimming		5	1	2	8
Tennis		0	1	0	1
Total		12	9	4	25

Gold

• Pieter van den Hoogenband — Swimming, Men's 100m Freestyle

• Pieter van den Hoogenband — Swimming, Men's 200m Freestyle

• Inge de Bruijn — Swimming, Women's 50m Freestyle

• Inge de Bruijn — Swimming, Women's 100m Freestyle

• Inge de Bruijn — Swimming, Women's 100m Butterfly

• Leontien Zijlaard — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Race

• Leontien Zijlaard — Cycling, Women's Individual Pursuit

• Leontien Zijlaard — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Time Trial

• Mark Huizinga — Judo, Men's Middleweight (90 kg)

• Jeroen Dubbeldam — Equestrian, men's individual jumping

• Anky van Grunsven — Equestrian, women's individual dressage

• Jacques Brinkman, Jeroen Delmee, Jaap-Derk Buma, Marten Eikelboom, Piet-Hein Geeris, Erik Jazet, Ronald Jansen, Bram Lomans, Teun de Nooijer, Wouter van Pelt, Stephan Veen (captain), Guus Vogels, Peter Windt, Diederik van Weel, Sander van der Weide, and Remco van Wijk — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition

Silver

• Leontien Zijlaard — Cycling, Women's Points Race

• Albert Voorn — Equestrian, Jumping Individual

• Margriet Matthijsse — Sailing, Women's Europe

• Inge de Bruijn, Manon van Rooijen, Wilma van Hofwegen, Thamar Henneken, and Chantal Groot (heats) — Swimming, Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

• Kristie Boogert and Miriam Oremans — Tennis, Women's Doubles

• Arjen Teeuwissen, Coby van Baalen, Ellen Bontje, and Anky van Grunsven — Equestrian, Mixed Team Dressage

• Michiel Bartman, Dirk Lippits, Diederik Simon, and Jochem Verberne — Rowing, Men's Quadruple Sculls

• Pieta van Dishoeck and Eeke van Nes — Rowing, Women's Double Sculls

• Tessa Appeldoorn, Carin ter Beek, Pieta van Dishoeck, Elien Meijer, Eeke van Nes, Nelleke Penninx, Martijntje Quik, Anneke Venema, and Marieke Westerhof — Rowing, Women's Eights

Bronze

• Wietse van Alten — Archery, Men's Individual Competition

• Pieter van den Hoogenband — Swimming, Men's 50m Freestyle

• Pieter van den Hoogenband, Johan Kenkhuis, Marcel Wouda, Martijn Zuijdweg, and Mark van der Zijden (heats) — Swimming, Men's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay
• Minke Booij, Dillianne van den Boogaard, Ageeth Boomgaardt, Julie Deiters, Mijntje Donners, Fleur van de Kieft, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Clarinda Sinnige, Hanneke Smabers, Minke Smabers, Margje Teeuwen, Carole Thate (captain), Daphne Touw, Macha van der Vaart, Myrna Veenstra, and Suzan van der Wielen — Field Hockey, Women's Team Competition

Results by event

Archery

Where the Netherlands had sent only female archers to the 1996 Olympic competition, they sent only men to the 2000 event. Wietse van Alten won the bronze medal in the individual tournament.

Men's individual
	Wietse van Alten			Fred van Zutphen			Henk Vogels
1/32 eliminations	Defeated	Miika Aulio Finland	163-160	Defeated	Jari Lipponen Finland	161-155	Lost to	Bård Nesteng Norway	158-149
1/16 eliminations	Defeated	Grzegorz Targonski Poland	160-157	Defeated	Rodney White United States	153-152	-	-	-
1/8 eliminations	Defeated	Stanislav Zabrodskiy Kazakhstan	166-164	Lost to	Sebastien Flute France	166-159	-	-	-
Quarterfinal	Defeated	Sebastien Flute France	106-102	-	-	-	-	-	-
Semifinal	Lost to	Simon Fairweather Australia	112-110	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bronze Medal	Defeated	Magnus Petersson Sweden	114-109	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Bronze medal			-			-

Men's Team Competition:

• Van Alten, Van Zutphen, and Vogels — Round of 16 (0-1) → 9th place

Athletics

Men's Competition

Men's 800m

• Bram Som

• Round 1 — 01:48.58 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1500m

• Marko Koers

• Round 1 — 03:39.16
• Semifinal — 03:39.42 (→ did not advance)

Men's 110m Hurdles

• Robin Korving

• Round 1 — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's 3000m Steeplechase

• Simon Vroemen

• Round 1 — 08:22.13
• Final — 08:37.87 (→ 12th place)

Men's High Jump

• Wilbert Pennings

• Qualifying — 2.20 (→ did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault

• Rens Blom

• Qualifying — 5.65 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

• Kamiel Maase

• Final — 2:16:24 (→ 13th place)

• Greg van Hest

• Final — 2:18:00 (→ 25th place)

Women's Competition

Women's Shot Put

• Lieja Koeman

• Qualifying — 17.99
• Final — 17.96 (→ 9th place)

Women's Marathon

• Nadezhda Wijenberg

• Final — 2:32:29 (→ 22nd place)

Badminton

Men's Doubles

• Quinten van Dalm and Dennis Lens

• Round of 32 — Lost to Pramote Teerawiwatana and Tesana Panvisavas of Thailand

Women's Singles

• Judith Meulendijks

• Round of 64 — Bye
• Round of 32 — Lost to Ye Zhaoying of China

• Mia Audina Tjiptawan

• Round of 64 — Bye
• Round of 32 — Defeated Sonya McGinn of Ireland
• Round of 16 — Defeated Ya-Lin Chan of Chinese Taipei
• Quarterfinal — Lost to Camilla Martin of Denmark

Women's Doubles

• Lotte Jonathans and Nicole van Hooren

• Round of 32 — Bye
• Round of 16 — Defeated Nicole Grether and Karen Stechmann of Germany
• Quarterfinal — Lost to Huang Nanyan and Yang Wei of China

Mixed Doubles

• Erica van den Heuvel and Chris Bruil

• Round of 32 — Defeated Amanda Hardy and David Bamford of Australia
• Round of 16 — Defeated Ge Fei and Liu Yong of China
• Quarterfinal — Lost to Simon Archer and Joanne Goode of Great Britain

Baseball

Men's Team Competition

In their second appearance in Olympic baseball, The Netherlands repeated their fifth-place finish. They scored victories over Australia and Italy to begin (→ game 1) and end (→ game 7) the preliminary round, but suffered four defeats in between (→ games 2, 3, 5, and 6). In game 4, however, the Dutch team served Cuba its first defeat in the history of Olympic baseball, breaking a 21-game winning streak (→ in its third Olympiad) by the Cubans.

• Preliminary Round Robin (→ 3-4)

• Defeated Australia 6-4
• Lost to Japan 2-10
• Lost to United States 2-6
• Defeated Cuba 4-2
• Lost to South Korea 0-2
• Lost to South Africa South Africa 2-3
• Defeated Italy 3-2 (→ did not advance)

• Team Roster:

• Sharnol Adriana
• Sharnol Leonard
• Johnny Balentina
• Patrick Beljaards
• Ken Brauckmiller
• Rob Cordemans
• Jeffrey Cranston
• Mike Crouwel
• Radhames Dijkhoff
• Robert Eenhoorn
• Rikkert Faneyte
• Evert-Jan 't Hoen
• Chairon Isenia
• Percy Isenia
• Eelco Jansen
• Ferenc Jongejan
• Dirk van 't Klooster
• Patrick de Lange
• Reily Legito
• Jurriaan Lobbezoo
• Remy Maduro
• Hensley Meulens
• Ralph Milliard
• Erik Remmerswaal
• Orlando Stewart

• Head Coach: Pat Murphy

Cycling

Cross Country Mountain Bike

Men's Cross Country Mountain Bike

• Bas van Dooren

• Final — 2:14:37.26 (→ 11th place)

• Bart Brentjens

• Final — 2:14:41.95 (→ 12th place)

• Patrick Tolhoek

• Final — DNF

Women's Mountain Bike

• Corine Dorland

• Final — 1:59:59.36 (→ 17th place)

Road Cycling

Men's Competition

Individual Time Trial

• Koos Moerenhout

• Final — 1:01:27 (→ 26th place)

• Erik Dekker

• Final — 1:01:40 (→ 29th place)

Individual Road Race

• Max van Heeswijk

• Final — 5:30:46 (→ 15th place)

• Léon van Bon

• Final — 5:30:46 (→ 25th place)

• Tristan Hoffman

• Final — 5:36:14 (→ 80th place)

• Erik Dekker

• Final — DNF

• Koos Moerenhout

• Final — DNF

Women's Competition

Individual Time Trial

• Leontien Zijlaard

• Final — 0:42:00 (→ Gold Medal)

• Mirjam Melchers

• Final — 0:44:12 (→ 11th place)

Individual Road Race

• Leontien Zijlaard

• Final — 3:06:31 (→ Gold Medal)

• Mirjam Melchers

• Final — 3:06:31 (→ 12th place)

• Chantal Beltman

• Final — 3:10:34 (→ 36th place)

Track Cycling

Men's Competition

Point Race

• Wilco Zuijderwijk
  • Points — 3
  • Laps Down — 2 (→ 18th place)

Team Pursuit

• John den Braber, Robert Slippens, Jens Mouris, Wilco Zuijderwijk and Peter Schep
  • Qualifying — 04:09.590
  • Quarterfinal — Lapped (→ did not advance)

Madison

• Danny Stam and Robert Slippens
  • Final — 8 (→ 8th place)

Women's Competition

Individual Pursuit

• Leontien Zijlaard
  • Qualifying — 03:31.570
  • Semifinal — Defeated Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand
  • Final — Defeated Marion Clignet of France (→ Gold Medal)

Women's Point Race

• Leontien Zijlaard
  • Points — 16 (→ Silver medal)

Judo

Men's Half-Lightweight

• Patrick van Kalken

Men's Half-Middleweight

• Maarten Arens

Men's Middleweight

• Mark Huizinga

Men's Half-Heavyweight

• Ben Sonnemans

Men's Heavyweight

• Dennis van der Geest

Women's Half-Lightweight

• Deborah Gravenstijn

Women's Lightweight

• Jessica Gal

Women's Half-Middleweight

• Daniëlle Vriezema

Women's Middleweight

• Edith Bosch

Women's Half-Heavyweight

• Karin Kienhuis

Sailing

The Netherlands competed in 5 different events in the Sailing venue, including three top 5 finishes and one medal.

Women's Single Handed Dinghy (→ Europe)

• Margriet Matthijsse

• Race 1 — 1
• Race 2 — (24)
• Race 3 — (19)
• Race 4 — 2
• Race 5 — 6
• Race 6 — 5
• Race 7 — 3
• Race 8 — 19
• Race 9 — 1
• Race 10 — 1
• Race 11 — 1
• Final — 39 (→ Silver Medal)

Women's Double Handed Dinghy (→ 470)

• Carolijn Brouwer and Alexandra Verbeek

• Race 1 — 11
• Race 2 — (16)
• Race 3 — 8
• Race 4 — 9
• Race 5 — 10
• Race 6 — 6
• Race 7 — 5
• Race 8 — 9.3 RDG
• Race 9 — (13)
• Race 10 — 10
• Race 11 — 7
• Final — 75.3 (→ 13th place)

Open Laser

• Serge Kats

• Race 1 — (29)
• Race 2 — 3
• Race 3 — 10
• Race 4 — 7
• Race 5 — 5
• Race 6 — 10
• Race 7 — (31)
• Race 8 — 19
• Race 9 — 3
• Race 10 — 9
• Race 11 — 6
• Final — 72 (→ 4th place)

Open Two Handed Keelboat (→ Star)

• Mark Neeleman and Jos Schrier

• Race 1 — 5
• Race 2 — 7
• Race 3 — 7
• Race 4 — (11)
• Race 5 — 8
• Race 6 — 4
• Race 7 — (15)
• Race 8 — 6
• Race 9 — 1
• Race 10 — 4
• Race 11 — 8
• Final — 50 (→ 6th place)

Open Three Handed Keelboat (→ Soling)

• Dirk de Ridder, Roy Heiner and Peter van Niekerk

• Quarterfinals- (2-3) two points
• Semi-Finals — Lost to Germany
• Final — Lost to Norway (→ 4th place)

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

• Pieter van den Hoogenband

• Preliminary Heat — 22.32
• Semi-final — 22.11
• Final — 22.03 (→ Bronze Medal)

• Johan Kenkhuis

• Preliminary Heat — 22.61
• Semi-final — 22.47 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Johan Kenkhuis

• Preliminary Heat — 49.93 (→ did not advance)

• Pieter van den Hoogenband

• Preliminary Heat — 48.64
• Semi-final — 47.84- World Record
• Final — 48.3 (→ Gold Medal)

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Martijn Zuijdweg

• Preliminary Heat — 1:50.37 (→ did not advance)

• Pieter van den Hoogenband

• Preliminary Heat — 1:46.71
• Semi-final — 1:45.35- World Record
• Final — 1:45.35 (→ Gold Medal)

Men's 100m Butterfly

• Stefan Aartsen

• Preliminary Heat — 53.81
• Semi-final — 53.81 (→ did not advance)

• Joris Keizer

• Preliminary Heat — 53.66
• Semi-final — 53.33 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Butterfly

• Stefan Aartsen

• Preliminary Heat — 01:58.89
• Semi-final — 01:58.66 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Marcel Wouda

• Preliminary Heat — 01:02.00
• Semi-final — 01:01.94 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Benno Kuipers

• Preliminary Heat — 02:17.03 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Backstroke

• Klaas-Erik Zwering

• Preliminary Heat — 02:00.94
• Semi-final — 02:00.06 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

• Marcel Wouda

• Preliminary Heat — 02:01.89
• Semi-final — 02:01.40
• Final — 02:01.48 (→ 5th place)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

• Mark Veens, Dennis Rijnbeek, Ewout Holst, and Johan Kenkhuis

• Preliminary Heat — DSQ (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

• Johan Kenkhuis, Mark van der Zijden, Marcel Wouda, and Martijn Zuijdweg

• Preliminary Heat — 07:20.67

• Johan Kenkhuis, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Marcel Wouda, and Martijn Zuijdweg

• Final — 07:12.70 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

• Joris Keizer, Mark Veens, Marcel Wouda, and Klaas-Erik Zwering

• Preliminary Heat — 03:40.10

• Joris Keizer, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Marcel Wouda, and Klaas-Erik Zwering

• Final — 03:37.53 (→ 4th place)

Women's 50m Freestyle

• Inge de Bruijn

• Preliminary Heat — 24.46
• Semi-final — 24.13 — World Record
• Final — 24.32 (→ Gold Medal)

• Wilma van Rijn

• Preliminary Heat — 25.81
• Semi-final — 25.87 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100m Freestyle

• Inge de Bruijn

• Preliminary Heat — 54.77
• Semi-final — 53.77 — World Record
• Final — 53.83 (→ Gold Medal)

• Wilma van Rijn

• Preliminary Heat — 55.82
• Semi-final — 55.28
• Final — 55.58 (→ 8th place)

Women's 200m Freestyle

• Carla Geurts

• Preliminary Heat — 02:00.60
• Semi-final — 02:00.88 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400m Freestyle

• Carla Geurts

• Preliminary Heat — 04:10.86
• Final — 04:12.36 (→ 7th place)

• Kirsten Vlieghuis

• Preliminary Heat — 04:11.87 (→ did not advance)

Women's 800m Freestyle

• Kirsten Vlieghuis

• Preliminary Heat — 08:35.80 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100m Butterfly

• Inge de Bruijn

• Preliminary Heat — 57.6
• Semi-final — 57.14
• Final — 56.61 (→ Gold Medal) — World Record

Women's 100m Breaststroke

• Madelon Baans

• Preliminary Heat — 01:10.47
• Semi-final — 01:10.44 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100m Backstroke

• Brenda Starink

• Preliminary Heat — 01:05.93 (→ did not advance)

Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay

• Chantal Groot, Thamar Henneken, Wilma van Rijn, and Manon van Rooijen

• Preliminary Heat — 03:42.32

• Inge de Bruijn, Thamar Henneken, Wilma van Rijn, and Manon van Rooijen

• Final — 03:39.83 (→ Silver Medal)

Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

• Carla Geurts, Chantal Groot, Manon van Rooijen, and Haike van Stralen

• Preliminary Heat — 08:08.53 (→ did not advance)

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

• Madelon Baans, Chantal Groot, Thamar Henneken, and Brenda Starink

• Preliminary Heat — 04:12.31 (→ did not advance)

Triathlon

At the inaugural Olympic triathlon competition, the Netherlands was represented by three men and three women. The nation's best result came from Wieke Hoogzaad at twenty-fifth place in the women's competition, while Dennis Looze was the last finisher in the men's race.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Wieke Hoogzaad — 2:06:45.48 (→ 25th place)
• Silvia Pepels — 2:07:05.01 (→ 26th place)
• Ingrid van Lubek — 2:09:29.00 (→ 33rd place)

Men's Individual Competition:

• Eric van der Linden — 1:54:32.04 (→ 42nd place)
• Rob Barel — 1:55:36.69 (→ 43rd place)
• Dennis Looze — 2:00:23.80 (→ 48th place)

Volleyball

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Defeated Cuba (3-0)
• Defeated Australia (3-0)
• Lost to Brazil (0-3)
• Defeated Egypt (3-1)
• Defeated Spain (3-1)

• Quarterfinals

• Lost to Yugoslavia (2-3)

• Classification Matches

• 5th/8th place: Defeated Australia (3-0)
• 5th/6th place: Defeated Brazil (3-1) → Fifth place

• Team Roster:

• Peter Blangé
• Albert Cristina
• Martijn Dieleman
• Bas van de Goor
• Mike van de Goor
• Guido Görtzen
• Martin van der Horst
• Joost Kooistra
• Reinder Nummerdor
• Richard Schuil

• Head Coach: Toon Gerbrands

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Lost to Yugoslavia (1-9)
• Lost to Hungary (8-16)
• Lost to United States (8-12)
• Defeated Greece (10-7)
• Lost to Croatia (7-11)

• Classification Round

• Defeated Slovakia (9-8)
• Tied with Greece (6-6)
• Lost to Kazakhstan (4-6) → Eleventh place

• Team Roster:

• Marco Booij
• Bjørn Boom
• Bobbie Brebde
• Matthijs de Bruijn
• Arie van de Bunt
• Arno Havenga
• Bas de Jong
• Harry van der Meer
• Gerben Silvis
• Kimmo Thomas
• Eelco Uri
• Wim Vermeulen
• Niels Zuidweg

• Head Coach: Johan Aantjes

Women's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round Robin

• Lost to the United States (3:4)
• Defeated Kazakhstan (8:6)
• Defeated Australia (5:4)
• Defeated Canada (7:4)
• Lost to Russia (3:6)

• Semi Final

• Lost to the United States (5:6)

• Bronze Medal Game

• Lost to Russia (3:4) → 4th place

• Team Roster:

• Gillian van den Berg
• Hellen Boering
• Daniëlle de Bruijn
• Edmée Hiemstra
• Karin Kuipers
• Ingrid Leijendekker
• Patricia Megens
• Mirjam Overdam
• Heleen Peerenboom
• Karla Plugge
• Carla Quint
• Marjan op den Velde
• Ellen Bast

• Head Coach: Jan Mensink

References

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