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The Netherlands competed at the
;Field events
;Combined events –
* Competed only in heats and received medals
;Women
* Competed only in heats and received medals
Official Report of the XXVIII OlympiadNOC*NSF
{{Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics Nations at the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
in Athens
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, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. Dutch athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games since its official debut in 1908. Netherlands, however, boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi ...
in Melbourne, because of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The Netherlands National Olympic Committee ( nl, Nederlands Olympisch Comité * Nederlandse Sport Federatie, ''NOC*NSF'') sent a total of 210 athletes to the Games, 134 men and 76 women, to compete in 21 sports. Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...
, field hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...
, and men's volleyball were the only team-based sports in which the Netherlands had its representation at these Games. There was only a single competitor in women's fencing.
The Dutch team featured five defending Olympic champions: swimming stars Pieter van den Hoogenband
Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband (; born 14 March 1978) is a Dutch retired swimmer. He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder.
Early life
Born in Maastricht, Limburg, he is the son of Cees-Rein van den Hoogenband ...
and Inge de Bruijn
Inge de Bruijn (; born 24 August 1973) is a Dutch former competitive swimmer. She is a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record-holder.
Personal
De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, Netherlands. Inge is the sister of Olympic water ...
, road and track cyclist Leontien van Moorsel
Leontien Martha Henrica Petronella Zijlaard-van Moorsel (born 22 March 1970) is a Dutch retired racing cyclist. She was a dominant cyclist in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games and holding the hour record f ...
, dressage rider Anky van Grunsven
Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda "Anky" van Grunsven (born 2 January 1968) is a Dutch dressage champion who is the only rider to record three successive Olympic wins in the same event. Along with her ...
along with her horse Bonfire, and middleweight judoka Mark Huizinga
Mark Huizinga (born 10 September 1973) is a Dutch judoka and Olympic champion.
Huizinga was born in Vlaardingen, South Holland in Netherlands in 1973. He won the gold medal in the men's under 90 kg class at the 2000 Summer Olympics by d ...
, who later became the Netherlands' flag bearer in the opening ceremony. Star sailor Mark Neeleman
Mark Jacobus Louis Neeleman (born 16 April 1959, in Baghdad, Iraq) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Neeleman represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Ta ...
, at age 45, became the first Dutch male athlete to compete in six Olympic Games since 1980 (except the 1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...
, in which he was selected). Shooter Hennie Dompeling
Hendrikus "Hennie" Dompeling (born 9 April 1966 in Haarlemmermeer) is a Dutch sport shooter. He has competed for the Netherlands in skeet shooting at five Olympics (1988 to 2004), and has been close to an Olympic medal in 2000 (finishing in fourt ...
sought his fifth Olympic bid as one of the most sophisticated members of the team, having missed the medal podium in the men's skeet from Sydney four years earlier. Among the Dutch athletes of the team, several of them were born outside the Netherlands and became naturalized citizens, including sprinter Troy Douglas
Troy Douglas (born 30 November 1962 in Paget, Bermuda) is a former Dutch sprinter. Originally competing for Bermuda, he finished second at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the 200 metres event, but he changed nationality to the Net ...
, who competed for three Olympics under the Bermudian flag, badminton players Mia Audina
Mia Audina Tjiptawan (born 22 August 1979) is a former Indonesian badminton player who represented Indonesia and later the Netherlands in international competitions. A badminton prodigy, Audina first played Uber Cup (the women's world team champi ...
from Indonesia and Jie Yao
Yao Jie (; born 10 April 1977) is a Chinese-born badminton player who now resides in the Netherlands.
Yao is one of a number of badminton players who have emigrated from China, in part, because the depth of badminton talent in that country h ...
from China, and taekwondo jin Charmie Sobers from the Netherlands Antilles.
Netherlands left Athens with a total of 22 Olympic medals, 4 golds, 9 silver, and 9 bronze, failing to achieve three medals short of the record from Sydney. Four Olympic champions managed to defend their titles from the previous Games in their respective events, while van den Hoogenband, de Bruijn, and van Moorsel still emerged as the most decorated Dutch athletes at these Games for the second time with more than a single medal. Seven of these medals were awarded to the athletes in swimming, including two from the freestyle relay teams; four each in cycling and judo, and three in rowing. Netherlands' team-based athletes proved particularly successful in Athens, as the men's and women's field hockey teams took home silver medals.
Medalists
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Three Dutch archers qualified each for the men's individual archery, and a spot for the men's team.Athletics
Dutch athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard). ;Men ;Track & road events
;Field events
;Combined events – Decathlon
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;Women
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Combined events – Heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...
Badminton
Baseball
;Roster Manager: 6 –Robert Eenhoorn
Robert Franciscus Eenhoorn (born February 9, 1968) is a retired Dutch professional baseball player and manager. He played four seasons of Major League Baseball as a utility infielder for the New York Yankees and California/Anaheim Angels. On Sep ...
Coaches: 17 – Eric de Bruin, 30 – Davey Johnson
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, 32 – Hensley Meulens
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A native of Curaçao, he ...
;Round robin
Canoeing
Slalom
Cycling
Road
;Men ;WomenTrack
;Sprint ;Pursuit ;Time trial ;Keirin ;OmniumMountain biking
Equestrian
Because only three horse and rider pairs from each nation could advance beyond certain rounds in the individual events, five American pairs did not advance despite being placed sufficiently high. They received rankings below all pairs that did advance.Dressage
Show jumping
Fencing
;WomenField hockey
Men's tournament
;Roster ;Group play ---- ---- ---- ---- ;Semifinals ;Gold medal matchWomen's tournament
;Roster ;Group play ---- ---- ---- ;Semifinals ;Gold medal matchGymnastics
Artistic
;WomenTrampoline
Judo
Seven Dutch judoka (four men and three women) qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics. ;Men ;WomenRowing
Dutch rowers qualified the following boats: ;Men ;Women Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; R=RepechageSailing
Dutch sailors have qualified one boat for each of the following events. ;Men ;Women ;Open M = Medal race; OCS =On course side
On the course side is an expression used in sailboat racing
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of the starting line; DSQ = Disqualified; DNF = Did not finish; DNS= Did not start; RDG = Redress given
Shooting
Three Dutch shooters qualified to compete in the following events: ;MenSwimming
Dutch swimmers earned qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard time, and 1 at the B-standard time): ;MenSynchronized swimming
Two Dutch synchronized swimmers qualified a spot in the women's duet.Table tennis
Two Dutch table tennis players qualified for the following events.Taekwondo
Two Dutch taekwondo jin qualified for the following events.Triathlon
Two Dutch triathletes qualified for the following events.Volleyball
Beach
Indoor
Men's tournament
;Roster ;Group playSee also
* Netherlands at the 2004 Summer ParalympicsReferences
External links
Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad
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2004
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