Athletes from the

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. The team of 35 competed in speed skating, bobsleigh, short track speed skating and snowboarding. The Dutch flag bearer during the opening ceremony was speedskater

Jan Bos Jan Bos (born 29 March 1975) is a Dutch former speedskater and sprint cyclist. In the late 1990s he was world champion in speed skating and he competed in the 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics. Speed skater In 1998 Bos both became the w ...

. Historically, the Dutch have only won medals in skating; of their 78 Winter Olympic medals since

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, 75 have been won in speed skating, and a further three in figure skating. The Netherlands have not won a figure skating medal since 1976. Dirk Matschenz (skeleton) did meet the limits set by the Dutch Olympic Committee but did not participate because he did not get his Dutch passport before the start of the Olympics. Matschenz is originally from

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Medalists

Bobsleigh

Short track speed skating

Snowboarding

Two women were selected for the Netherlands in snowboarding events in Torino; Cheryl Maas for the halfpipe event and

Nicolien Sauerbreij Nicolien Sauerbreij (, born 31 July 1979) is a Dutch professional snowboarder. She won seven World Cup races and ranked first in the parallel giant slalom standings of the 2007–2008 and the 2009–2010 World Cup. She competed in the Winter O ...

in the parallel giant slalom event. Maas qualified in 4th place for the final, but on her final run, Maas landed on the top edge of the halfpipe, fell and ended up in 11th. ;Halfpipe Note: In the final, the single best score from two runs is used to determine the ranking. A bracketed score indicates a run that wasn't counted. ;Parallel GS Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.

Speed skating

;Men ;Women ;Team Pursuit Mark Tuitert 2006

References

Further references

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