Netherlands at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation
Netherlands at the
2018 Winter Olympics
Refer to caption
IOC codeNED
NOCDutch Olympic Committee*
Dutch Sports Federation
Websitewww.nocnsf.nl/en
in Pyeongchang, South Korea
9–25 February 2018
Competitors33 (16 men and 17 women) in 4 sports
Flag bearer (opening)Jan Smeekens (speed skating)[1]
Flag bearer (closing)Ireen Wüst (speed skating)
Medals
Ranked 5th
Gold
8
Silver
6
Bronze
6
Total
20
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

The Netherlands competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, between 9 and 25 February 2018. Speed skater Jan Smeekens was appointed as flag bearer for the opening ceremony,[2] which was attended by King Willem Alexander, Queen Máxima and Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who also observed the sporting events that featured Dutch competitors.[3]

The goal for the Dutch team was to win fifteen medals, as declared by Chef de mission Jeroen Bijl;[4] they exceeded this goal by five medals, with a total of twenty, which placed the Netherlands fifth in the medal table. Most notably, the Dutch team dominated the individual speed skating events, winning seven of the ten gold medals awarded; they also won four medals in short track speed skating including their first ever gold medal in this discipline, won by Suzanne Schulting.

Highlights

Day 1

Netherlands made a podium sweep in the women's 3000 metres speed skating event – Carlijn Achtereekte won gold, Ireen Wüst won silver and Antoinette de Jong won bronze. Then a few minutes after the podium sweep, Sjinkie Knegt won the silver medal in the men's 1500 metres short track speed skating event.

Day 2

Sven Kramer won the gold medal in the men's 5000 metres speed skating event. Kramer became the first man ever to win a gold medal in the same speed skating event at three consecutive Winter Olympics.[citation needed]

Day 3

Netherlands took three of the top four places in the women's 1500 metres speed skating event; Ireen Wüst won the gold medal and Marrit Leenstra took bronze, only 0.01 seconds ahead of Lotte van Beek. On winning the gold medal, Wüst had succeeded in achieving gold medal wins at four consecutive Winter Olympics, exactly twelve years after winning her first gold medal in the 3000 metres in 2006.[5] With a total of ten medals, including five golds, Wüst became the best ever Olympic speed skater (male or female) and the seventh-best Winter Olympic athlete overall.[6]

Day 4

Olympic debutant Kjeld Nuis won the gold medal in the men's 1500 metres speed skating event. Patrick Roest, also an Olympic debutant, won the silver medal. Koen Verweij, one of the favorites for the win, disappointed with an eleventh place.[7] In short track speed skating, Yara van Kerkhof unexpectedly won the silver medal in the women's 500 metres event, benefiting from the disqualification of the Korean Choi Min-jeong after initially finishing in third.[8]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Gold Carlijn Achtereekte Speed skating Women's 3000 metres 10 February
 Gold Sven Kramer Speed skating Men's 5000 metres 11 February
 Gold Ireen Wüst Speed skating Women's 1500 metres 12 February
 Gold Kjeld Nuis Speed skating Men's 1500 metres 13 February
 Gold Jorien ter Mors Speed skating Women's 1000 metres 14 February
 Gold Esmee Visser Speed skating Women's 5000 metres 16 February
 Gold Kjeld Nuis Speed skating Men's 1000 metres 23 February
 Gold Suzanne Schulting Short track speed skating Women's 1000 metres 22 February
 Silver Ireen Wüst Speed skating Women's 3000 metres 10 February
 Silver Patrick Roest Speed skating Men's 1500 metres 13 February
 Silver Jorrit Bergsma Speed skating Men's 10000 metres 15 February
 Silver Antoinette de Jong
Marrit Leenstra
Ireen Wüst
Lotte van Beek		 Speed skating Women's team pursuit 21 February
 Silver Sjinkie Knegt Short track speed skating Men's 1500 metres 10 February
 Silver Yara van Kerkhof Short track speed skating Women's 500 metres 13 February
 Bronze Antoinette de Jong Speed skating Women's 3000 metres 10 February
 Bronze Marrit Leenstra Speed skating Women's 1500 metres 12 February
 Bronze Jan Blokhuijsen
Sven Kramer
Koen Verweij
Patrick Roest		 Speed skating Men's team pursuit 21 February
 Bronze Irene Schouten Speed skating Women's mass start 24 February
 Bronze Koen Verweij Speed skating Men's mass start 24 February
 Bronze Yara van Kerkhof
Jorien ter Mors
Lara van Ruijven
Suzanne Schulting		 Short track speed skating Women's 3000 metre relay 20 February
Medals by sport
Sport 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Total
Speed skating 7 4 5 16
Short track speed skating 1 2 1 4
Total 8 6 6 20
Medals by date
Day Date 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Total
Day 1 10 February 1 2 1 4
Day 2 11 February 1 0 0 1
Day 3 12 February 1 0 1 2
Day 4 13 February 1 2 0 3
Day 5 14 February 1 0 0 1
Day 6 15 February 0 1 0 1
Day 7 16 February 1 0 0 1
Day 8 17 February 0 0 0 0
Day 9 18 February 0 0 0 0
Day 10 19 February 0 0 0 0
Day 11 20 February 0 0 1 1
Day 12 21 February 0 1 1 2
Day 13 22 February 1 0 0 1
Day 14 23 February 1 0 0 1
Day 15 24 February 0 0 2 2
Day 16 25 February 0 0 0 0
Total 8 6 6 20

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

Sport Men Women Total
Short track speed skating 5 5 10
Skeleton 0 1 1
Snowboarding 1[a] 2 3
Speed skating 10 10 20
Total 16 17[b] 33[b]

a Niek van der Velden was the only male snowboarder on the team, but did not compete due to a broken shoulder.
b Jorien ter Mors competed in both short track and long track speed skating (hence the totals appear to be one short).

Short track speed skating

According to the ISU Special Olympic Qualification Rankings, the Netherlands have qualified a full squad of five men and five women each.[9][10]

Athlete Event Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Daan Breeuwsma 500 m 40.806 2 Q 40.677 2 Q 40.775 4 FB 40.835 7
1000 m 1:24.429 4 Did not advance
Dylan Hoogerwerf 500 m 40.657 2 Q 41.007 3 Did not advance
Sjinkie Knegt 500 m PEN Did not advance
1000 m 1:23.823 1 Q PEN Did not advance
1500 m 2:15.949 3 Q — 2:11.900 1 FA 2:10.555 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Itzhak de Laat 1000 m 1:24.639 1 Q 1:24.423 3 Did not advance
1500 m 2:15.691 2 Q — 2:11.781 3 AA 2:12.362 6
Daan Breeuwsma
Sjinkie Knegt
Itzhak de Laat
Dennis Visser [c] 		5000 m relay — PEN Did not advance

c Dylan Hoogerwerf was also part of the relay team, but did not compete.

Women
Athlete Event Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Yara van Kerkhof 500 m 43.430 2 Q 43.197 2 Q 43.192 1 FA 43.256 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
1000 m 1:43.364 2 Q 1:29.670 4 Did not advance
Jorien ter Mors 1500 m 2:28.587 2 Q — 2:34.385 1 FA 2:25.955 5
Lara van Ruijven 500 m 43.771 3 Did not advance
1000 m 1:30.896 1 Q 1:31.754 4 Did not advance
Suzanne Schulting 500 m DNF Did not advance
1000 m 1:29.519 1 Q 1:29.377 2 Q 1:30.949 1 FA 1:29.778 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1500 m 2:27.730 1 Q — 2:34.632 4 FB 2:37.163 10
Yara van Kerkhof
Jorien ter Mors
Lara van Ruijven
Suzanne Schulting [d] 		3000 m relay — 4:05.977 3 FB 4:03.471 WR 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

d Rianne de Vries was also part of the relay team, but did not compete.

Key: AA = Advanced to medal round due to being impeded by another skater; DNF = Did not finish; FA = Qualified to medal round; FB = Qualified to consolation round; PEN = Penalty; Q = Qualified to next round; WR = World record

Skeleton

Based on the world rankings, the Netherlands qualified two sleds.[11] However, they elected to nominate only one athlete,[10] Kimberley Bos, who was the first Dutch skeleton athlete ever to qualify for the Olympics. Although Bos met the international qualification criteria by virtue of her performance during the World Cup skeleton 2017–18, in which she finished in 13th place overall, she was not initially selected because she did not meet the NOC*NSF's own requirement (a top-12 place). However, NOC*NSF argued that Russian athlete Jelena Nikitina should be eliminated from the World Cup classification, as she had been excluded by the IOC from participating in the Olympics. When this was agreed, Bos rose to 12th place on the clean list for the World Cup classification, thereby fulfilling the NOC*NSF requirement, and her nomination was secured.

Athlete Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Kimberley Bos Women's 52.33 8 52.26 7 51.99 6 52.01 7 3:28.59 8

Snowboarding

Niek van der Velden was unable to compete because of a broken shoulder caused by a crash in the final training for the slopestyle.[12][13]

Cheryl Maas fell in both runs of the women's slopestyle, so she did not play an important role in the final. Strong winds during the final caused many of the athletes to fall; Maas called the conditions "irresponsible".[14][15]

Freestyle
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Run 1 Run 2 Best Rank Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best Rank
Niek van der Velden Men's slopestyle Withdrew due to injury
Men's big air Withdrew due to injury
Cheryl Maas Women's slopestyle CAN[16] 31.71 35.30 CAN 35.30 23
Women's big air 65.00 44.75 65.00 20 did not advance
Parallel
Athlete Event Qualification Round of 16 Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM
Time Rank Opposition
Time 		Opposition
Time 		Opposition
Time 		Opposition
Time 		Rank
Michelle Dekker Women's giant slalom 1:33.60 17 Did not advance

Speed skating

The Dutch Olympic Committee selected the maximum allowed delegation of ten men and ten women, largely based on the results of the Olympic qualification tournament, held in December 2017. Kai Verbij was added for the 1000 metre event, because he was injured during the qualification race.

Men
Athlete Event Race
Time Rank
Jorrit Bergsma 10000 m 12:41.98 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Jan Blokhuijsen 5000 m 6:14.75 7
Sven Kramer 5000 m 6:09.76 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
10000 m 13:01.02 6
Ronald Mulder 500 m 34.839 7
Kjeld Nuis 1000 m 1:07.95 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1500 m 1:44.01 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Patrick Roest 1500 m 1:44.86 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Jan Smeekens 500 m 34.930 10
Kai Verbij 500 m 34.90 9
1000 m 1:08.61 6
Koen Verweij 1000 m 1:09.14 9
1500 m 1:46.26 11
Bob de Vries 5000 m 6:22.26 15
Women
Athlete Event Race
Time Rank
Carlijn Achtereekte 3000 m 3:59.21 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Lotte van Beek 1500 m 1:55.27 4
500 m 39.18 23
Anice Das 500 m 38.75 19
Antoinette de Jong 3000 m 4:00.02 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Marrit Leenstra 1000 m 1:14.85 6
1500 m 1:55.26 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Jorien ter Mors 500 m 37.539 6
1000 m 1:13.56 OR 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Esmee Visser 5000 m 6:50.23 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Annouk van der Weijden 5000 m 6:54.17 4
Ireen Wüst 1000 m 1:15.32 9
1500 m 1:54.35 1st place, gold medalist(s)
3000 m 3:59.29 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Mass start
Athlete Event Semifinal Final
Points Time Rank Points Time Rank
Sven Kramer Men's mass start 6 8:24.51 4 Q 0 8:13.95 16
Koen Verweij 5 8:44.90 5 Q 20 7:44.24 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Irene Schouten Women's mass start 5 8:54.94 4 Q 20 8:33.02 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Annouk van der Weijden 40 8:32.31 2 Q 0 8:42.19 14
Team pursuit
Athlete Event Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Opposition
Time 		Rank Opposition
Time 		Rank Opposition
Time 		Rank
Jan Blokhuijsen
Sven Kramer
Koen Verweij
Patrick Roest 		Men's team pursuit  United States (USA)
W 3:40.03 		2 Q  Norway (NOR)
L 3:38.46 		2 FB  New Zealand (NZL)
W 3:38.40 		3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Antoinette de Jong
Marrit Leenstra
Ireen Wüst
Lotte van Beek 		Women's team pursuit  South Korea (KOR)
W 2:55.61 OR 		1 Q  United States (USA)
W 3:00.41 		1 FA  Japan (JPN)
L 2:55.48 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)

Key: FA = Qualified to gold medal round; FB = Qualified to bronze medal round; L = Lost; OR = Olympic record; Q = Qualified to next round; W = Won

References

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  4. ^ "Chef de mission Bijl establishes the Team NL target of fifteen medals". www.nu.nl. 8 February 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
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  6. ^ "Wüst in top ten best winter Olympians of all time". NOS. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
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  11. ^ "Quota Allocation PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games 2018 - Women's Skeleton - IBSF 14 January 2018" (PDF). www.ibsf.org. International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF). 15 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
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  13. ^ "End Play for snowboarder Van der Velden by break after fall". www.nu.nl. 10 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  14. ^ "Maas: final slopestyle ruined by strong winds". NOS. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  15. ^ "Snowboardster Maas plays a role in slopestyle finals due to falls". www.nu.nl. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  16. ^ "Women's slopestyle qualification canceled". Reuters. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
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