Netherlands at the 2015 European Games

Netherlands at the
2015 European Games
Netherlands at the; 2015 European Games
IOC code	NED
NOC	NOC*NSF
Website	www.nocnsf.nl
in Baku, Azerbaijan; 12 – 28 June 2015
Competitors	117 in 17 sports
Flag bearers	Reshmie Oogink (opening); Twan van Gendt (closing)
Medals; Ranked 9th	Gold 8 Silver 12 Bronze 9 Total 29
European Games appearances (overview)
	2015; 2019; 2023;

Netherlands participated at the 2015 European Games, in Baku, Azerbaijan from 12 to 28 June 2015.^[1]

117 athletes had been selected by the Dutch Olympic Committee to represent the Netherlands.^[2]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Ellen van Dijk	Cycling	Women's time trial	18 June
Gold	Li Jiao	Table tennis	Women's singles	19 June
Gold	Lieke Wevers	Gymnastics	Women's balance beam	20 June
Gold	Marrit Steenbergen	Swimming	Women's 100 metre freestyle	24 June
Gold	Nouchka Fontijn	Boxing	Women's 75 kg	25 June
Gold	Kim Polling	Judo	Women's 70 kg	26 June
Gold	Henk Grol	Judo	Men's 100 kg	27 June
Gold	Marhinde Verkerk	Judo	Women's 78 kg	27 June
Silver	Rachel Klamer	Triathlon	Women's individual	13 June
Silver	Stef Clement	Cycling	Men's time trial	18 June
Silver	Britt Eerland Li Jie Li Jiao	Table tennis	Women's team	15 June
Silver	Li Jie	Table tennis	Women's singles	19 June
Silver	Casimir Schmidt	Gymnastics	Men's vault	20 June
Silver	Sjef van den Berg	Archery	Men's individual	22 June
Silver	Laura van Engelen Frederique Janssen Pien Schravesande Marrit Steenbergen	Swimming	Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay	23 June
Silver	Iris Tjonk Tes Schouten Josein Wijkhuis Marrit Steenbergen	Swimming	Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay	25 June
Silver	Marrit Steenbergen	Swimming	Women's 50 metre freestyle	26 June
Silver	Marrit Steenbergen	Swimming	Women's 200 metre freestyle	26 June
Silver	Laura van Engelen Frederique Janssen Marieke Tienstra Marrit Steenbergen	Swimming	Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay	27 June
Silver	Twan van Gendt	Cycling	Men's BMX	28 June
Bronze	Céline van Gerner Lisa Top Lieke Wevers	Gymnastics	Women's artistic team all-around	15 June
Bronze	Annemiek van Vleuten	Cycling	Women's time trial	18 June
Bronze	Lieke Wevers	Gymnastics	Women's artistic individual all-around	18 June
Bronze	Sjef van den Berg Mitch Dielemans Rick van der Ven	Archery	Men's team	18 June
Bronze	Anna van der Breggen	Cycling	Women's road race	20 June
Bronze	Lisa Top	Gymnastics	Women's vault	20 June
Bronze	Lieke Wevers	Gymnastics	Women's floor exercise	20 June
Bronze	Guillaume Elmont	Judo	Men's 90 kg	27 June
Bronze	Guusje Steenhuis	Judo	Women's 78 kg	27 June

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Judo	3	0	2	5
Swimming	1	5	0	6
Cycling	1	2	2	5
Table Tennis	1	2	0	3
Gymnastics	1	1	4	6
Boxing	1	0	0	1
Archery	0	1	1	2
Triatlon	0	1	0	1
Total	8	12	9	29

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Archery

The Netherlands has qualified for three quota places in both the men's and the women's archery events at the Games, and as a result has also qualified for the team events.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Rick van der Ven	Men's individual	679	2	Guidi W 6–0	Weiss W 7–3	Ivashko W 7–1	Prilepov L 4–6	Did not advance		5
Sjef van den Berg		678	3	Lapsins W 6–0	Hristov W 7–3	Ruban W 6–4	Plihon W 7–3	Prilepov W 6–0	Alvariño L 1–7
Mitch Dielemans		655	29	Frangilli W 7–3	Ivanytskyy L 3–7	Did not advance				17
Shireen-Zoe de Vries	Women's individual	630	27	Alarcón L w/o	Did not advance					33
Esther Deden		615	47	Myszor W 6–4	Schuh L 4–6	Did not advance				17
Annemarie der Kinderen		608	51	Ruggieri L 4–6	Did not advance					33
Rick van der Ven Sjef van den Berg Mitch Dielemans	Men's team	2012	1	—		Bye	Russia W 5–4	Ukraine L 3–5	France W 5–3
Shireen-Zoe de Vries Esther Deden Annemarie der Kinderen	Women's team	1853	13	—		Ukraine L 3–5	Did not advance			9
Shireen-Zoe de Vries Rick van der Ven	Mixed team	1309	8	—		Denmark W 6–0	Italy L 2–6	Did not advance		5

Basketball

Women's tournament – one team of four players – lost in Round of 16

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Peter Müllenberg	Men's Light Heavy	BYE	Karlidag W 3–0	Mammad L 0–3	Did not advance
Nouchka Fontijn	Women's Middle	—	Marshall W 3–0	Shambir W 3–0	Scheurich W 3–0	Laurell Nash W 3–0

Canoeing

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eef Haaze	Women's K-1 5000 metres	—				23:53.064	8

Cycling

The Netherlands will participate in road cycling disciplines at the European Games.^[4]

Mountain biking

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Michiel van der Heijden	Men's cross country	DNF

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Stef Clement	Road Race	DNF
Stef Clement	Time Trial	1:00:46.08
Pim Ligthart	Road Race	DNF
Nick van de Lijke		DNF
Niki Terpstra		5:27:29	8
Wouter Wippert		5:33:43	30

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Chantal Blaak	Road Race	DNF
Lucinda Brand		3:25:53	24
Anna van der Breggen		3:20:36
Ellen van Dijk	Road Race	3:20:54	4
Ellen van Dijk	Time trial	32:26.87
Amy Pieters	Road race	3:25:53	19
Annemiek van Vleuten	Road race	3:24:17	7
Annemiek van Vleuten	Time trial	33:33.56

BMX

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Twan van Gendt	Men's BMX	33.540	3 Q	3	1 Q	32.768	1 Q	33.887
Jelle van Gorkom	Men's BMX	34.382	15 Q	6	2 Q	33.941	2 Q	1:05.020	8
Merle van Benthem	Women's BMX	38.301	9 Q	—		6	2 Q	38.370	4
Laura Smulders	Women's BMX	38.962	11 Q	—		4	1 Q	43.176	5

Diving

Fencing

Athlete	Event	Groupstage							Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Bas Verwijlen	Men's épée	Cimini L 4–5	Hanczvikkel W 5–3	Aliyev W 5–1	Dobrev W 5–1	Novosjolov L 1–5	von der Osten L 0–3	4 Q	Dida W 15–12	Nikishin W 15–8	Jerent L 9–15	Did not advance		5

Gymnastics

Judo

Shooting

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Peter Hellenbrand	Men's 10 m air rifle	623.2	15	Did not advance

Swimming

Table tennis

Taekwondo

Triathlon

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total Time	Rank
Maaike Caelers	Women's	22:02	0:47	1:05:03	0:26	36:28	2:04:46	12
Rachel Klamer	Women's	20:16	0:53	1:04:06	0:34	35:55	2:01:44

Water polo

Volleyball

Indoor volleyball

Women's tournament – one team of 14 players

Maret Balkestein-Grothues
Yvon Beliën
Anne Buijs
Robin de Kruijf
Laura Dijkema
Nicole Koolhaas
Nicole Oude Luttikhuis
Judith Pietersen
Celeste Plak
Myrthe Schoot
Lonneke Sloetjes
Debby Stam-Pilon
Quinta Steenbergen
Femke Stoltenborg

Group Stage

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Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	20:00	Netherlands	3–1	Russia	25–19	21–25	25–22	25–21		96–87	Report
15 Jun	14:30	Croatia	1–3	Netherlands	23–25	17–25	25–17	21–25		86–92	Report
17 Jun	09:00	Netherlands	0–3	Germany	13–25	23–25	22–25			58–75	Report
19 Jun	14:30	Serbia	2–3	Netherlands	25–20	22–25	28–26	16–25	9–15	100–111	Report
21 Jun	11:00	Netherlands	3–0	Bulgaria	25–20	25–18	25–19			75–57	Report

Quarterfinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
23 Jun	19:00	Azerbaijan	3–0	Netherlands	25–21	25–23	25–14			75–58	Report

Beach volleyball

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Elimination Round	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Standing	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Steven van de Velde Michiel van Dorsten	Men's	Pool E Kubala – Hadrava (CZE) L 0 – 2 (18–21, 19–21) Faiga – Hilman (ISR) L 0 – 2 (17–21, 16–21) Sekerci – Mermer (TUR) L 1 – 2 (21–15, 17–21, 13–15)	4	Did not advance
Sophie van Gestel Jantine van der Vlist	Women's	Pool D	1 Q	Bye		Did not advance
Rimke Braakman Jolien Sinnema	Women's	Pool F	2 q		Did not advance

Wrestling

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jessica Blaszka	−48 kg	Bye	Tjapko (LAT) W 9–5	Matkowska (LAT) L 0–7	Did not advance				9

References

^ Baku 2015 Participants Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine
^ Netherlands
^ "Netherlands – Medals". Baku 2015 1st European Games. Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
^ "Nederlandse profs in actie op European Games Baku" (in Dutch). cyclingonline.nl. 25 March 2014.

[1] Baku 2015 Participants Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Netherlands

[3] "Netherlands – Medals". Baku 2015 1st European Games. Archived from the original on 18 June 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2015.

[4] "Nederlandse profs in actie op European Games Baku" (in Dutch). cyclingonline.nl. 25 March 2014.

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