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
Olympic history (summary)
Summer Games
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Winter Games
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The Netherlands competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

Further information: 2000 Summer Olympics medal table and List of 2000 Summer Olympics medal winners

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

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
1 ! Gold	Zijlaard, LeontienLeontien Zijlaard	Cycling	Women's road race	02013-09-26September 26
			Women's road time trial	02013-09-30September 30
			Women's individual pursuit	02013-09-18September 18
1 ! Gold	van Grunsven, AnkyAnky van Grunsven	Equestrian	Dressage Individual	02013-09-30September 30
1 ! Gold	Dubbeldam, JeroenJeroen Dubbeldam	Equestrian	Show Jumping Individual	02013-09-27September 27
1 ! Gold	national field hockey team, NetherlandsNetherlands national field hockey team Jacques Brinkman   Ronald Jansen   Remco van Wijk Jaap-Derk Buma   Erik Jazet   Stephan Veen Teun de Nooijer   Bram Lomans   Guus Vogels Jeroen Delmee   Sander van der Weide   Peter Windt Marten Eikelboom   Wouter van Pelt Piet-Hein Geeris   Diederik van Weel	Field hockey	Men's competition	02013-09-30September 30
1 ! Gold	Huizinga, MarkMark Huizinga	Judo	Men's 90 kg	02013-09-20September 20
1 ! Gold	van den Hoogenband, PieterPieter van den Hoogenband	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle	02013-09-20September 20
			Men's 200 m freestyle	02013-09-18September 18
1 ! Gold	de Bruijn, IngeInge de Bruijn	Swimming	Women's 50 m freestyle	02013-09-23September 23
			Women's 100 m freestyle	02013-09-20September 20
			Women's 100 m butterfly	02013-09-17September 17
2 ! Silver	Zijlaard, LeontienLeontien Zijlaard	Cycling	Women's points race	02013-09-21September 21
2 ! Silver	Bontje, EllenEllen Bontje, Arjen Teeuwissen, Coby van Baalen, Anky van Grunsven	Equestrian	Dressage Team	02013-09-26September 26
2 ! Silver	Voorn, AlbertAlbert Voorn	Equestrian	Show Jumping Individual	02013-09-27September 27
2 ! Silver	Bartman, MichielMichiel Bartman, Dirk Lippits, Diederik Simon, Jochem Verberne	Rowing	Men's quadruple sculls	02013-09-24September 24
2 ! Silver	van Dishoeck, PietaPieta van Dishoeck, Eeke van Nes	Rowing	Women's double sculls	02013-09-23September 23
2 ! Silver	Appeldoorn, TessaTessa Appeldoorn, Elien Meijer, Nelleke Penninx, Martijntje Quik, Carin ter Beek, Pieta van Dishoeck, Eeke van Nes, Anneke Venema, Marieke Westerhof	Rowing	Women's coxed eight	02013-09-24September 24
2 ! Silver	Matthijsse, MargrietMargriet Matthijsse	Sailing	Europe	02013-09-29September 29
2 ! Silver	de Bruijn, IngeInge de Bruijn, Chantal Groot, Thamar Henneken, Wilma van Hofwegen, Manon van Rooijen	Swimming	Women's 4 x 100 m freestyle relay	02013-09-16September 16
2 ! Silver	Boogert, KristieKristie Boogert, Miriam Oremans	Tennis	Women's doubles	02013-09-27September 27
3 ! Bronze	van Alten, WietseWietse van Alten	Archery	Men's individual	02013-09-20September 20
3 ! Bronze	national field hockey team, NetherlandsNetherlands national field hockey team Minke Booij   Fatima Moreira de Melo   Fleur van de Kieft Ageeth Boomgaardt   Hanneke Smabers   Dillianne van den Boogaard Julie Deiters   Minke Smabers   Macha van der Vaart Mijntje Donners   Margje Teeuwen   Suzan van der Wielen Clarinda Sinnige   Carole Thate   Myrna Veenstra Piet-Hein Geeris   Daphne Touw	Field hockey	Women's competition	02013-09-29September 29
3 ! Bronze	van den Hoogenband, PieterPieter van den Hoogenband	Swimming	Men's 50 m freestyle	02013-09-22September 22
3 ! Bronze	Kenkhuis, JohanJohan Kenkhuis, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Mark van der Zijden, Marcel Wouda, Martijn Zuijdweg	Swimming	Men's 4 x 200 m freestyle relay	02013-09-19September 19

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

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