The Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

in Athens

Athens

Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

.

Medalists

Medals Per Day
Day	Date				Total
Day 1	14th	0	0	1	1
Day 2	15th	0	1	1	2
Day 3	16th	0	1	1	2
Day 4	17th	0	0	0	0
Day 5	18th	2	1	1	4
Day 6	19th	0	2	0	2
Day 7	20th	0	0	1	1
Day 8	21st	1	0	1	2
Day 9	22nd	0	2	2	4
Day 10	23rd	0	0	0	0
Day 11	24th	0	0	0	0
Day 12	25th	1	0	0	1
Day 13	26th	0	1	0	1
Day 14	22nd	0	1	0	1
Day 15	27th	0	0	1	1
Day 16	28th	0	0	0	0
Total		4	9	9	22
Medals Per Sport
Sport					Total
Badminton Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Goudi Olympic Hall at the Goudi Olympic Complex from August 14 through August 21. Both men and women competed in their own singles and doubles events and together they competed in a mixed doubles event....		0	1	0	1
Cycling Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics had 18 events in three disciplines:*Road cycling, held at the Athens historic centre and in Vouliagmeni Olympic Centre ....		1	1	2	4
Equestrian Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics The events of the Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics featured three equestrian disciplines: dressage, eventing and jumping. All three disciplines are further divided into individual and team contests for a total of six events....		1	0	0	1
Field hockey Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics Field Hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Hockey Centre located within the Helliniko Olympic Complex. The competitions for both men and women was split into two groups with the top two teams after the preliminary rounds progressing through to the semi-finals.-Men's...		0	2	0	2
Judo Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and featured 368 judoka competing for 14 gold medals with seven different weight categories in both the men's and women's competitions. Japan dominated the event by taking 8 gold and 2 silver medals.Gold and silver medals...		0	1	3	4
Rowing Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre and featured 550 competitors taking part in 14 events....		0	1	2	3
Swimming Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Olympic Aquatic Centre with the athletes competing in 32 events. There was a total of 937 participants from 152 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men's events:...		2	3	2	7
Total		4	9	9	22

Archery

Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, Greece with ranking rounds on 12 August and regular competition held from 15 August to 21 August...

Men's individual:

• Wietse van Alten
  Wietse van Alten
  Wietse Cornelis van Alten is an archer from the Netherlands. Van Alten was born in Zaandam, in the municipality of Zaanstad. He has competed in archery since the age of seven....
  
   - 27th place
• Ron van der Hoff
  Ron van der Hoff
  Ron Luitjen Lucia van der Hoff is an athlete from the Netherlands, who competes in archery.Van der Hoff competed in archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In men's individual archery, he won his first match, upsetting Butch Johnson of the USA. Advancing to the round of 32, he was defeated in the...
  
   - 30th place
• Pieter Custers
  Pieter Custers
  Pieter Johan Jozef Maria Custers is an athlete from the Netherlands, who competes in archery. He was a member of the Dutch junior archery team, that won the European championship in 2001....
  
   - 44th place

Men's team:

• Pieter Custers, Wietse van Alten, and Ron van der Hoff - 5th place

Athletics

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, the athletics events were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 18 to August 29, except for the marathons , the race walks , and the shot put...

Men's 110 metre hurdles:

• Gregory Sedoc
  Gregory Sedoc
  Gregory Sedoc is a Dutch hurdler.He reached his first international final at the 2007 European Indoor Championships in 60 metres hurdles, and won the event, equalling his personal best time of 7.63 seconds which was established in the previous rounds and beating fellow-countryman Marcel van der...
  
   - Round 2, DNF

Men's 800 metres:

• Bram Som
  Bram Som
  Bram Som is a Dutch runner who specializes in the 800 metres. His personal best time of 1:43.45 minutes, achieved in August 2006 in Zürich, is also the current Dutch National Record. He missed the 2005 season, but returned in 2006 to win the national Dutch championship for the fifth time since 2000...
  
   - Semifinal, 1:45.5 (did not advance)

Men's 1500 metres:

• Gert-Jan Liefers
  Gert-Jan Liefers
  Gerrit Jan 'Gert-Jan' Liefers is a Dutch middle distance runner, who came 8th in the 1500 m final at the 2004 Olympics. He was also a finalist in the same event in the 2001 and 2003 World Championships....
  
   - Final, 3:37.17 (8th place)

Men's 3000 metre steeplechase:

• Simon Vroemen
  Simon Vroemen
  Simon Frans Vroemen is a Dutch runner, specialising in the steeplechase.Vroemen has a degree in molecular sciences from the Wageningen University. He wrote his dissertation on the stress physiology of grasshoppers...
  
   - Final, 8:13.25 (6th place)

Men's 10000 metres:

• Kamiel Maase
  Kamiel Maase
  Kamiel Maase is a retired long-distance runner from the Netherlands, who is the current Dutch record holder in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres. He also holds the national record in the marathon, which he ran on 21 October 2007 in the Amsterdam Marathon.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
   - Final, 28:23.29 (14th place)

Women's 10000 metres:

• Lornah Kiplagat
  Lornah Kiplagat
  Lornah Kiplagat is a Dutch long-distance runner. She was born in Kabiemit, Rift Valley Province, Kenya and came to the Netherlands in 1999. She gained Dutch citizenship in 2003 and has competed for the Netherlands since...
  
   - 30:31.92 (5th place)

Men's 4x100 metre relay:

• Timothy Beck
  Timothy Beck
  Timothy Beck is a Dutch sprinter. Together with Caimin Douglas, Patrick van Balkom and Troy Douglas he won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics...
  
  , Troy Douglas
  Troy Douglas
  Troy Douglas 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 Netherlands some time after...
  
  , Patrick van Balkom
  Patrick van Balkom
  Patrick Petrus Marinus van Balkom is a former Dutch sprinter. Together with Caimin Douglas, Timothy Beck and Troy Douglas he won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics...
  
  , and Caimin Douglas
  Caimin Douglas
  Caimin Christian Douglas is a Dutch sprinter.-Biography:Douglas was born in Rosmalen, out of a Dutch mother and an Antillean father. At the age of five the family returned to his father's roots in Curaçao. There he played football from the age of 11 for his local team in Willemstad and the...
  
   - Round 1, DNF (did not advance)

Women's 4x100 metre relay:

• Annemarie Kramer
  Annemarie Kramer
  Anna Maria 'Annemarie' Kramer is a former Dutch sprinter. She started with athletics at the age of twelve and soon found out that she had a special talent for the sprinting events...
  
  , Pascal van Assendelft
  Pascal van Assendelft
  Pascal van Assendelft is a former Dutch sprinter. She started her career in athletics at the age of thirteen and was to become a sprinting athlete, competing at European and Olympic level....
  
  , Jacqueline Poelman
  Jacqueline Poelman
  Helina Jacomina Poelman is a former Dutch sprinter.Poelman was born and raised in Leek and trained at an athletics club in Roden. Her first major international tournament were the 1991 European Junior Championships in Thessaloniki, where she did not reach the final on the 100 nor the 200 m...
  
  , and Joan van den Akker
  Joan van den Akker
  Joan van den Akker is a former Dutch sprinter.Already at the age of six Van den Akker became interested in athletics, although she loved riding, tennis and streetdance as well. When she was twelve years old she started competing in the heptathlon, because she liked doing all the events...
  
   - Round 1, DNF

Men's decathlon:

• Chiel Warners
  Chiel Warners
  Chiel Mathijs Warners is a former Dutch decathlete.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
   - 8343 points (5th place)
• Eugène Martineau
  Eugène Martineau (athlete)
  Eugène Julien Martineau is a Dutch decathlete.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
   - 7185 points (29th place)

Women's heptathlon:

• Karin Ruckstuhl
  Karin Ruckstuhl
  Karin Nathalie Ruckstuhl is a Dutch heptathlete.-Biography:Her first major championship was the 2002 European Athletics Championships and she finished 13th in the heptathlon...
  
   - 6108 points (16th place)

Men's marathon:

• Luc Krotwaar
  Luc Krotwaar
  Luc Krotwaar is a Dutch long-distance runner, who is nicknamed 'The White Kenyan'. In the spring of 2003 Krotwaar ran 2:19.42 in the Rotterdam Marathon and only eight days later 2:13.41 in the Utrecht marathon.In the fall of 2003 he ran a personal best of 2:10.13 in Fukuoka...
  
   - DNS

Men's pole vault:

• Rens Blom
  Rens Blom
  Rens Blom is a former Dutch athlete competing in pole vault.-Biography:He achieved the result of 5.75 as early as in 2000, but five years passed without much progression. However, on June 8, 2004 in Zaragoza he set the current Dutch record with 5.81...
  
   - Final, 5.65 metres (9th place)

Men's shot put:

• Rutger Smith
  Rutger Smith
  Rutger Smith is a Dutch track and field athlete competing in the shot put and discus throw. He was the first athlete to win medals at the World Championships in both events. He represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics in 2004 and 2008...
  
   - Round 1, 19.69 metres (did not advance)

Women's shot put:

• Lieja Tunks
  Lieja Tunks
  Liesbeth Jantina Tunks, née Koeman is a shot putter who represents Canada after switching from the Netherlands in 2006...
  
   - Round 1: 18.38 metres, Final: 18.14 metres (11th place)

Men's discus:

• Rutger Smith
  Rutger Smith
  Rutger Smith is a Dutch track and field athlete competing in the shot put and discus throw. He was the first athlete to win medals at the World Championships in both events. He represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics in 2004 and 2008...
  
   - Round 1, 61.11 metres (did not advance)

Badminton

Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Goudi Olympic Hall at the Goudi Olympic Complex from August 14 through August 21. Both men and women competed in their own singles and doubles events and together they competed in a mixed doubles event....

Women's singles:

• Mia Audina
  Mia Audina
  Mia Audina Tjiptawan ; born 22 August 1979) is a former Chinese Indonesian badminton player who represented Indonesia and later the Netherlands in international competitions. A badminton prodigy, Audina first played Uber Cup for Indonesia at fourteen, winning the decisive final match in the...
  
   - silver medal
• Yao Jie - defeated in round of 16

Women's doubles:

• Lotte Bruil
  Lotte Bruil
  Lotte Bruil-Jonathans is a female badminton player from the Netherlands....
  
   and Mia Audina - defeated in quarterfinals

Mixed doubles:

• Chris Bruil
  Chris Bruil
  Christiaan "Chris" Gerrit Herman Bruil is a male badminton player from the Netherlands.Bruil competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed double's with partner Lotte Bruil-Jonathans, who is his wife. They had a bye in the first round and were defeated by Kim Dong-moon and Ra...
  
   & Lotte Bruil - defeated in round of 16

Baseball

Baseball at the 2004 Summer Olympics

-Preliminary round:The top four teams advanced to the semifinals. To determine the seed ranking of teams tied in the standings, the result of the two teams' game against each other was used. Japan therefore received first place due to the win over Cuba. In the semi-finals, Japan played...

The Dutch baseball team placed 6th in the preliminary round and did not advance to the semifinals.

• Players:

Sharnol Adriana

Sharnol Adriana

Sharnol Leonard Adriana is a Dutch baseball player.-Early years:Adriana began his professional baseball career after being taken in the 15th round of the 1991 MLB Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays. The Blue Jays assigned him to their St. Catharines Blue Jays farm team, where he hit .206-.311-.341 as...

Wladimir Balentien

Wladimir Balentien

Wladimir Ramon Balentien is a Nippon Professional Baseball outfielder with the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.-Seattle Mariners:Balentien was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Mariners in...

Johnny Balentina

Johnny Balentina

Randolph Benito Balentina is a Dutch baseball player, who competed in three consequtive Summer Olympics for the Netherlands, starting in 1996 . Twice he finished in sixth place , once in fifth place .-Reference:...

Patrick Beljaards

Patrick Beljaards

Patrick Beljaards is a Dutch baseball player.Beljaards represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he and his team became fifth. Four years later at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens they were sixth.-External links:*...

Maikel Benner

Maikel Benner

Maikel Benner is a Dutch baseball player.Benner represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he and his team became sixth.-External links:*...

Yurrendel DeCaster

Ivanon Coffie

Ivanon Coffie

Ivanon Angelino Coffie is a Dutch baseball player.He made his major league debut in 2000 with the Baltimore Orioles...

Rob Cordemans

Rob Cordemans

Rob "Robbie" Cordemans is a Dutch baseball player. He bats and throws righthanded. Cordemans is best known for representing the Dutch national team at the Olympics and other international competitions.- Olympics :Cordemans has been a fixture on Dutch baseball teams in international competitions...

Robin van Doornspeek

Robin van Doornspeek

Jersey Robin Jan van Doornspeek is a Dutch baseball player.Van Doornspeek represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he and his team became sixth.-External links:*...

Dave Draijer

Dave Draijer

Dorotheus Wilhelmus "Dave" Draijer is a Dutch baseball player.Draijer represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he and his team became sixth...

Evert-Jan 't Hoen

Evert-Jan 't Hoen

Evert-Jan Axel Charles 't Hoen is a Dutch baseball player.'t Hoen represented the Netherlands at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, in which the Dutch finished sixth...

Chairon Isenia

Chairon Isenia

Chairon Ramon Isenia is a Dutch baseball player.Isenia represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he and his team became fifth. Four years later at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens they were sixth...

Eelco Jansen

Eelco Jansen

Eelco Jansen is a Dutch baseball player.Jansen represented the Netherlands at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where he and his team became sixth. Four years later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney they were fifth, while in Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympics they were sixth again.-External...

Sidney de Jong

Sidney de Jong

Sidney de Jong is a Dutch baseball player.De Jong represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he and his team finished sixth. He also represented the Dutch at the 2009 World Baseball Classic in San Juan, Puerto Rico and in Miami, Florida.-External links:*...

Ferenc Jongejan

Ferenc Jongejan

Ferenc Peter Jongejan is a Dutch baseball player.Jongejan represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he and his team became fifth. Four years later at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens they were sixth.-External links:*...

Eugene Kingsale

Eugene Kingsale

Eugene Humphrey "Gene" Kingsale is a former Major League Baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, and Detroit Tigers from until...

Dirk van 't Klooster

Dirk van 't Klooster

Dirk Gijsbertus van 't Klooster is a Dutch baseball player.Van 't Klooster represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he and his team became fifth. Four years later at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens they were sixth.-External links:*...

Patrick de Lange

Patrick de Lange

Patrick de Lange is a Dutch baseball player.De Lange represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he and his team became fifth. Four years later at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens they were sixth.-External links:*...

Raily Legito

Calvin Maduro

Calvin Maduro

Calvin Gregory Maduro is a retired professional baseball player. He played 5 years in Major League Baseball between and . He is currently a scout for the Baltimore Orioles.- Playing career :...

Diego Markwell

Diego Markwell

Diegomar Raymundo "Diego" Markwell is a Dutch baseball player....

Ralph Milliard

Ralph Milliard

Ralph Gregory Milliard is a Dutch baseball player.Milliard represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he and his team became fifth...

Harvey Monte

Harvey Monte

Harvey David Simeon Perigeault Monte is a Dutch baseball player.Monte represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he and his team became sixth....

Alexander Smit

Alexander Smit

Alexander Roelof Smit is a Dutch baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds organization, playing for their Double-A affiliate the Carolina Mudcats....

• Manager:

Robert Eenhoorn

Robert Eenhoorn

Robert Franciscus Eenhoorn 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.-Major League career:Robert Eenhoorn played four seasons in Major League Baseball as...

• Coaches:

Eric de Bruin

Davey Johnson

Davey Johnson

David Allen "Davey" Johnson is an American Major League Baseball player and current manager of the Washington Nationals. He was the starting second baseman for the Baltimore Orioles when they won four American League pennants and two World Series championships between 1965 and 1972...

Hensley Meulens

Hensley Meulens

Hensley Filemon Acasio Meulens is a former professional baseball player and current hitting coach for the San Francisco Giants. He played from to in Major League Baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball, and the Korea Baseball Organization...

Canoeing

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre for the sprint events and the Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre at the Helliniko Olympic Complex for the canoe and kayak slalom disciplines....

Men's K1 slalom:

• Sam Oud
  Sam Oud
  Samuel Victor Alexander Oud is a Dutch slalom canoer. He won a silver medal in the K-1 team at the 2003 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg....
  
   - final, 8th place
• Floris Braat
  Floris Braat
  Floris Braat is a Dutch slalom canoer. He won a silver medal in the K-1 team event at the 2003 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Augsburg....
  
   - semifinal, 17th place

Road cycling

Men's road race:

• Max van Heeswijk
  Max van Heeswijk
  Max Lambert Peter van Heeswijk is a Dutch retired professional road racing cyclist.- Major achievements :2000...
  
   - 17th place, 5:41:56
• Erik Dekker
  Erik Dekker
  Hendrik "Erik" Dekker is a retired Dutch professional road racing cyclist active from 1992 until 2006. He was a member of the Rabobank cycling team from 1996 till 2006. In 2007 he became one of Rabobank's team managers.-Amateur career:...
  
   - 41st place, 5:42:29
• Karsten Kroon - 52nd place, 5:47:13
• Servais Knaven
  Servais Knaven
  Henricus Theodorus Josephus Knaven is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, currently a directeur sportif for Team Sky. Knaven won Paris–Roubaix in 2001 and is the second rider in history to start and finish the race 16 times...
  
   - did not finish
• Michael Boogerd
  Michael Boogerd
  Michael Boogerd is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer. He was one of the leaders of a generation of Dutch cyclists in the late 1990s and early 2000s, together with teammate Erik Dekker, even inspiring Dutch authors to write a book called "Michael & Erik" about this generation, and the...
  
   - did not finish

Women's road race:

• Mirjam Melchers
  Mirjam Melchers
  Maria Wilhelmina Johanna 'Mirjam' Melchers-Van Poppel is a female racing cyclist from the Netherlands, married to former sprinter Jean-Paul van Poppel. She is one of the leading cyclists in the world, having held the UCI number one ranking as well as winning highly-rated races...
  
   - 6th place, 3:25:06
• Anouska van der Zee
  Anouska van der Zee
  Annuska Johanna Maria 'Anouska' van der Zee is a retired Dutch racing cyclist. She participated both on track and at the road....
  
   - did not finish
• Leontien van Moorsel
  Leontien van Moorsel
  Leontine Martha Henrica Petronella van Moorsel is a former Dutch racing cyclist.Van Moorsel started her career in the late 1980s and was soon one of the best cyclists in the world. She won major races both on the track, and on the road...
  
   - did not finish

Men's time trial:

• Thomas Dekker
  Thomas Dekker (cyclist)
  Thomas Dekker is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer for Garmin-Cervélo’s development team, Chipotle Development Team. His career highlights include winning Tirreno-Adriatico in 2006 and Tour de Romandie in 2007...
  
   - 20th place, 1:00:37.49

Women's time trial:

• Leontien van Moorsel - gold medal, 31:11.53
• Mirjam Melchers - 13th place, 33:01.58

Track cycling

Men's individual pursuit:

• Levi Heimans
  Levi Heimans
  Levi Heimans is a Dutch track cyclist.Heimans represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he took part in the 4 km team pursuit together with Jens Mouris, Peter Schep and Jeroen Straathof. They ended up in fifth position...
  
   - did not start

Women's individual pursuit:

• Leontien van Moorsel - bronze medal match, bronze medal

Men's team pursuit:

• Levi Heimans, Jens Mouris
  Jens Mouris
  Jens Mouris is a Dutch racing cyclist.Mouris represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he took part in the 4 km team pursuit together with John den Braber, Robert Slippens and Wilco Zuijderwijk. They ended up in seventh position after being lapped by the Ukraine...
  
  , Peter Schep
  Peter Schep
  Pieter Otto Schep is a Dutch racing cyclist, specializing in track cycling endurance events.-Biography:...
  
  , and Jeroen Straathof
  Jeroen Straathof
  Johannes Nicolaas Maria Straathof is a retired Dutch racing cyclist and speed skater. Straathof was the first, and still the only, athlete in the world to represent his country at the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics.Straathof started his sports career as a speed skater,...
  
   - first round, 5th place

Men's individual sprint:

• Theo Bos
  Theo Bos
  Theo Bos is a Dutch road cyclist and track cyclist, Olympic silver medalist and five-time world champion. He lives in Alkmaar, Netherlands. Theo Bos is the brother of Olympic medalist in speed skating Jan Bos. Bos rides for UCI ProTeam .-Early life:Theo Bos was born on 22 August 1983 in Hierden,...
  
   - final, silver medal
• Teun Mulder
  Teun Mulder
  Teunis Mulder is a Dutch track cyclist. He is a former keirin World Champion and won a silver in the team sprint with Theo Bos and Tim Veldt. Mulder also won a total of four world cup classics in the team sprint and keirin. He competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens,...
  
   - classification 9-12, 10th place

Women's individual sprint:

• Yvonne Hijgenaar
  Yvonne Hijgenaar
  Yvonne Hijgenaar is a Dutch racing cyclist and former national speed skater.-Background:Hijgenaar is a former speed skater who for two years was in the Netherlands national team. In 2001 she switched from skating to track cycling after finding she rode so much better than she skated that she could...
  
   - classification 9-12, 11th place

Men's team sprint:

• Jan Bos
  Jan Bos
  Jan Bos is a Dutch speedskater and sprint cyclist.In 1998 he became world champion sprint and he won the silver medal that year on the 1000 meter sprint during the Winter Olympics in Nagano....
  
  , Theo Bos, and Teun Mulder - first round, 6th place

Women's time trial:

• Yvonne Hijgenaar - 5th place, 34.532 seconds

Men's time trial:

• Theo Bos - 5th place, 1:01.986
• Teun Mulder - 11th place, 1:03.165

Men's points race:

• Peter Schep
  Peter Schep
  Pieter Otto Schep is a Dutch racing cyclist, specializing in track cycling endurance events.-Biography:...
  
   - 7th place, 58 points

Women's points race:

• Adrie Visser
  Adrie Visser
  Adriana Visser is a Dutch track and road racer who lives in Wieringerwerf.Visser started her professional career in 2001, when she finished second at the Dutch road race championship. She came fifth in the time trial. In track cycling she won her first national titles, becoming Dutch champion in...
  
   - 10th place, 5 points

Men's Keirin:

• Theo Bos - classification 7-12, 11th place
• Teun Mulder - first repechage, no rank

Men's Madison:

• Robert Slippens
  Robert Slippens
  Robertus Michiel Joseph Lucas Maria Jacobus 'Robert' Slippens is a Dutch racing cyclist.Slippens represented the Netherlands at three different Summer Olympics. He made his Olympic debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where he participated in the four kilometer team pursuit alongside...
  
   and Danny Stam
  Danny Stam
  Danny Stam is a Dutch racing cyclist, specializing in track cycling Six-day racing. He is nicknamed "De kleine diesel" .-Biography:...
  
   - 14th place, 2 points (-1 lap)

Mountain biking

Men's cross country:

• Bart Brentjens
  Bart Brentjens
  Bart Jan-Baptist Marie Brentjens is a Dutch racing cyclist in mountain biking.Brentjens won a gold medal for mountain biking in the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first to recognize cross-country mountain biking as an event. He followed this with bronze in the 2004 Summer Olympics...
  
   - bronze medal, 2:17:05
• Bas Peters
  Bas Peters
  Bas Peters is a Dutch cyclist specializing in competitive mountain biking.Peters represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he finished in 13th position where his team mate Bart Brentjens won the bronze medal.-External links:*...
  
   - 13th place, 2:21:44
• Thijs Al
  Thijs Al
  Thijs Joris Al is a Dutch cyclist specializing in competitive mountain biking and cyclo-cross. Al rode his first mountain bike race in 1995....
  
   - 25th place, 2:27:13

Women's cross country:

• Elsbeth van Rooy-Vink
  Elsbeth van Rooy-Vink
  Elisabet van Rooy-Vink is a Dutch cyclist specializing in competitive mountain biking.Van Rooy-Vink represented the Netherlands at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta in both the road race as mountain biking, while at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens she only competed in mountain biking...
  
   - 5th place, 2:01:41

Equestrian

Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics

The events of the Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics featured three equestrian disciplines: dressage, eventing and jumping. All three disciplines are further divided into individual and team contests for a total of six events....

Because only three horse and rider pairs from each nation could advance to the final rounds in the individual jumping event, Gerco Schröder

Gerco Schröder

Gerco Bernardus Schröder is a Dutch show jumping equestrian.Gerco Schröder represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he took part in the individual jumping competition and the show jumping team event alongside Wim Schröder, Leopold van Asten and Gert-Jan Bruggink...

 received a final rank below all riders that did advance despite being placed more highly after the qualifying rounds.

Individual Dressage:

• Anky van Grunsven
  Anky van Grunsven
  Theodora Elisabeth Gerarda van Grunsven is a Dutch dressage champion who won the gold medal in the 2000 Olympics with her horse Bonfire and gold in the 2004 Olympics and in the 2008 Olympics with Salinero.Van Grunsven has also dominated World Cup Dressage competition, being named the World...
  
   riding Salinero – Final → Gold Medal
• Imke Bartels
  Imke Bartels
  Imke Anne Marian Schellekens-Bartels is an equestrian from The Netherlands, who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Her mother Tineke was also an equestrian in dressage....
  
   riding Lancet – Final → 11th place
• Sven Rothenberger
  Sven Rothenberger
  Sven Günther Rothenberger is an equestrian from Germany, who competed for The Netherlands after his marriage with Dutch equestrain Gonnelien Gordijn....
  
   riding Barclay I – Second Round → 17th place
• Marlies van Baalen
  Marlies van Baalen
  Marlies Anne van Baalen is a Dutch Dressage equestrian. She is Coby van Baalen's daughter.Van Baalen represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics where she finished in 43rd position in the individual rankings...
  
   riding Idocus – First Round → 43rd place

Team Dressage:

• Bartels, Rothenberger, Van Grunsven, and Van Baalen – 4th place → 71.264%

Individual Jumping:

• Wim Schröder
  Wim Schröder
  Wilhelmus Gerardus Schröder is a Dutch show jumping equestrian.Wim Schröder represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he took part in the individual jumping competition and the show jumping team event, alongside Gerco Schröder, Leopold van Asten and Gert-Jan Bruggink...
  
   riding Montreal
  Montreal
  Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
  
   – Final Round B → 28th place
• Leopold van Asten
  Leopold van Asten
  Leopold Leonardus Petronella van Asten is a Dutch show jumping equestrian.Van Asten represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he took part in the individual jumping competition and the show jumping team event, alongside Gerco Schröder, Wim Schröder and Gert-Jan Bruggink...
  
   riding Fleche Rouge – Final Round A → 31st place
• Gert-Jan Bruggink
  Gert-Jan Bruggink
  Gert Jan Jozef Bruggink is a Dutch show jumping equestrian.Bruggink represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he took part in the individual jumping competition and the show jumping team event, alongside Gerco Schröder, Wim Schröder and Leopold van Asten...
  
   riding Joel
  Joel
  Joel or Yoel may refer to:* Joel , origin of the name including a list of people with the first name* Joel , a prophet of an ancient Israel** Book of Joel, a book in the Jewish Tanakh, and the Christian Bible...
  
   – Final Round A → 33rd place
• Gerco Schröder
  Gerco Schröder
  Gerco Bernardus Schröder is a Dutch show jumping equestrian.Gerco Schröder represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he took part in the individual jumping competition and the show jumping team event alongside Wim Schröder, Leopold van Asten and Gert-Jan Bruggink...
  
   riding Monaco – Qualifier → 48th place (21st after round)

Team Jumping:

• Schröder, van Asten, Bruggink, and Schröder – Final → 4th place

Fencing

Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Fencing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Fencing Hall at the Helliniko Olympic Complex. Ten gold medals were awarded in individual and team events further divided into three styles of fencing: épée, foil and sabre....

Women's épée individual:

• Sonja Tol
  Sonja Tol
  Sonja Tol is a Dutch épée fencer.Tol represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics where she reached the second round in which she was eliminated by Ildikó Mincza-Nébald of Hungary 15-7.-External links:*...
  
   - defeated in round of 32

Gymnastics

Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, three disciplines of gymnastics were contested: artistic gymnastics , rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline...

Women's artistic:

• Suzanne Harmes
  Suzanne Harmes
  Suzanne Helena Johanna Harmes is a Dutch gymnast.In 2002 she won the silver medal at the European Championships in Patras as a part of the Dutch team alongside Gabriella Wammes, Renske Endel, Monique Nuijten and Verona van de Leur. A year later she became Dutch National Champion for the first time...
  
   - did not advance in any exercise
• Laura van Leeuwen
  Laura van Leeuwen
  Laura Antoinette van Leeuwen is a Dutch gymnast. Van Leeuwen is allround, however the uneven bars and the vault are her best disciplines....
  
   - did not advance in any exercise

Men's trampoline:

• Alan Villafuerte - 15th place

Women's trampoline:

• Andrea Lenders - 8th place

Hockey

Field hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Field Hockey at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Olympic Hockey Centre located within the Helliniko Olympic Complex. The competitions for both men and women was split into two groups with the top two teams after the preliminary rounds progressing through to the semi-finals.-Men's...

Men's: silver medal

• Preliminary round: 5-0-0
• Semifinal: defeated Germany, 3-2
• Gold medal match: lost to Australia, 1-1 (tie-breaker, 2-1)

• Matthijs Brouwer
  Matthijs Brouwer
  Matthijs Christian Brouwer is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The striker made his debut on June 2, 2000 in a friendly match against Spain...
  
  
• Ronald Brouwer
  Ronald Brouwer
  Ronald Leendert Brouwer is a field hockey striker from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. -References:...
  
  
• Jeroen Delmee
  Jeroen Delmee
  Jeroen Petrus Maria Delmee is a field hockey player from The Netherlands, who twice became Olympic champion with the Dutch national squad: in 1996 and in 2000.-External links:*...
  
  
• Geert-Jan Derikx
  Geert-Jan Derikx
  Geert-Jan Marie Derikx is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
  
  
• Rob Derikx
  Rob Derikx
  Rob Gerard Marie Derikx is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
  
  
• Marten Eikelboom
  Marten Eikelboom
  Marten Eikelboom is a field hockey striker from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch team that won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney...
  
  
• Floris Evers
  Floris Evers
  Floris Maarten Alphons Maria Evers is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:...
  
  
• Erik Jazet
  Erik Jazet
  Erik Alexander Jazet is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 308 international matches for the Netherlands. The defender made his debut for the Dutch on November 17, 1990 in a match against England....
  
  
• Karel Klaver
  Karel Klaver
  Karel Klaver is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the national squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:...
  
  
• Jesse Mahieu
  Jesse Mahieu
  Jesse Mahieu dead 28.November 2011 is a field hockey defender from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:...
  
  
• Teun de Nooijer
  Teun de Nooijer
  Teun Floris de Nooijer is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who twice became Olympic champion with the Dutch national squad: in 1996 and in 2000. He currently plays for Dutch side HC Bloemendaal.- Life and work :He made his debut on 4 June 1994 in a friendly match against New Zealand...
  
  
• Rob Reckers
  Rob Reckers
  Rob Reckers is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:...
  
  
• Taeke Taekema
  Taeke Taekema
  Taeke Wiebe Doekes Taekema is a Dutch field hockey player and drag flicker who won the silver medal with the national squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
  
  
• Klaas Veering
  Klaas Veering
  Klaas Willem Veering is a field hockey goalkeeper from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. There he was the stand-in for first choice Guus Vogels.The goalie made his debut on 23 February 2003 in a friendly match in and...
  
  
• Guus Vogels
  Guus Vogels
  Augustinus Wilhelmus Johannes Marines Vogels is a Dutch field hockey goalkeeper, who twice won Olympic gold medals with the national squad: at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and four years later, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.In 2004 he was the starter and won the silver medal with...
  
  
• Sander van der Weide
  Sander van der Weide
  Sander Petrus Henricus van der Weide is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch team that won the golden medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney....
  
  

Women's: silver medal

• Preliminary round: 4-0-0
• Semifinal: defeated Argentina, 4-2
• Gold medal match: lost to Germany, 2-1

• Minke Booij
  Minke Booij
  Minke Gertine Booij is a Dutch field hockey player, who played more than 150 international matches for the Netherlands national team since her debut, on September 9, 1998 in a friendly match against Japan.Booij was captain of the Dutch squad that won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in...
  
  
• Ageeth Boomgaardt
• Chantal de Bruijn
  Chantal de Bruijn
  Chantal de Bruijn is a Dutch field hockey defender who plays for Dutch club Amsterdam.She made her debut for the Netherlands national team on August 21, 2001 against New Zealand. De Bruijn was a member of the Holland squad that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
  
  
• Mijntje Donners
  Mijntje Donners
  Wilhelmina Petronella Ardina Maria Donners is a field hockey striker from the Netherlands, who played 234 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team, in which she scored 97 goals.Donners made her debut on April 1, 1994 against South Korea , and was a member of the team, that won the...
  
  
• Miek van Geenhuizen
  Miek van Geenhuizen
  Marianne Antoinette van Geenhuizen is a Dutch field hockey player who played as an attacker for Dutch clubs Oranje Zwart, HC Den Bosch and Laren. Currently she is playing for Amsterdam.Van Geenhuizen also plays for the Netherlands national team...
  
  
• Sylvia Karres
• Lieve van Kessel
• Fatima Moreira de Melo
  Fatima Moreira de Melo
  Fatima Moreira de Melo LL.M. is a Dutch field hockey player. She has played 191 international matches for the Dutch national team, where she has scored 30 times. Her debut match was on 21 October 1997 against Germany which ended in a 2-1 victory for The Netherlands. She plays on the position of...
  
  
• Eefke Mulder
  Eefke Mulder
  Eefke Mulder is a Dutch field hockey player, who played as a midfielder for Dutch club NMHC Nijmegen. She made her debut for the Netherlands national team on June 2, 1997 at the Champions Trophy in Berlin.Mulder was a member of the Holland squad that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer...
  
  
• Lisanne de Roever
  Lisanne de Roever
  Lisanne Freya de Roever is a Dutch field hockey player who plays as a goal keeper for Dutch club SV Kampong...
  
  
• Maartje Scheepstra
• Janneke Schopman
  Janneke Schopman
  Johanna Dorotheo Maria Schopman is a Dutch field hockey player who plays as a defender for Dutch club HC Den Bosch. She also plays for the Netherlands national team. Schopman was a member of the Dutch squad that won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...
  
  
• Clarinda Sinnige
  Clarinda Sinnige
  Clarinda Maria Sinnige is a former field hockey goalkeeper from the Netherlands, who played 142 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team....
  
  
• Minke Smabers
  Minke Smabers
  Minke Smeets is a field hockey midfielder from the Netherlands. Her current team is Laren.She was part of the team that won the 2007 Champions Trophy...
  
  
• Jiske Snoeks
• Macha van der Vaart

Judo

Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Judo at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall and featured 368 judoka competing for 14 gold medals with seven different weight categories in both the men's and women's competitions. Japan dominated the event by taking 8 gold and 2 silver medals.Gold and silver medals...

Men's 81 kg:

• Guillaume Elmont
  Guillaume Elmont
  Guillaume Ricaldo Elmont is a male judoka from the Netherlands, whose biggest success so far was winning the world title at the World Championships in Cairo, Egypt...
  
   - defeated in round of 32

Men's 90 kg:

• Mark Huizinga
  Mark Huizinga
  Mark Huizinga is a Dutch judoka and Olympic champion.Huizinga was born in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland in Netherlands in 1973. He won the gold medal in the men's under 90 kg class at the 2000 Summer Olympics by defeating Brazil's Carlos Honorato by ippon. He took bronze at the 1996 and 2004...
  
   - bronze medal; defeated in round of 16; won repechage finals

Men's 100 kg:

• Elco van der Geest
  Elco van der Geest
  Elco van der Geest is a Dutch-born Belgian judoka. Throughout his career, Elco had been competing on the judo mat under the Netherlands. In August 2009, Elco accepted the request of joining the Belgian team...
  
   - defeated in semifinals; lost in repechage finals

Men's 100+ kg:

• Dennis van der Geest
  Dennis van der Geest
  Dennis van der Geest is a Dutch judoka, who won the bronze medal in the men's heavyweight division at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was born in Haarlem, Noord-Holland....
  
   - bronze medal; defeated in quarterfinals; won repechage finals

Women's 57 kg:

• Deborah Gravenstijn
  Deborah Gravenstijn
  Dibora Monick Olga "Deborah" Gravenstijn is a Dutch judoka and First Lieutenant in the Royal Netherlands Air Force...
  
   - bronze medal; defeated in semifinals; won repechage finals

Women's 70 kg:

• Edith Bosch
  Edith Bosch
  Edith Bosch is a Dutch Judoka who won the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the middleweight division....
  
   - silver medal; defeated in final

Women's 78 kg:

• Claudia Zwiers
  Claudia Zwiers
  Claudia Antoinette Zwiers is a judoka from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at two Summer Olympics . She won the bronze medal in the women's middleweight division in Atlanta, Georgia .-References:*...
  
   - defeated in round of 32; repechage round of 32

Rowing

Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Schinias Olympic Rowing and Canoeing Centre and featured 550 competitors taking part in 14 events....

Men:

• Michiel Bartman
  Michiel Bartman
  Michiel Bernhard Emiel Marie Bartman is a former rower from the Netherlands, who won a total of three Olympic medals during his career...
  
  
• Chun Wei Cheung
  Chun Wei Cheung
  Chun Wei Cheung was a Dutch rowing cox and Olympic silver medallist.Cheung started coxing with Nereus Rowing Club in Amsterdam in 1992, later joining the Dutch National Team and coxing the men's coxed pair at the 1996 World Rowing Championships to bronze...
  
  
• Geert-Jan Derksen
  Geert-Jan Derksen
  Geert Jan Derksen is a Dutch rower.-References:*...
  
  
• Karel Dormans
  Karel Dormans
  Karel Dormans is a Dutch rower. He finished 4th in the men's lightweight coxless four at the 2004 Summer Olympics.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...
  
  
• Gerritjan Eggenkamp
  Gerritjan Eggenkamp
  Gerritjan Eggenkamp is a Dutch rower.Born in Leiden, Netherlands, Eggenkamp started rowing aged 12 at Het Spaarne rowing club in Heemstede, and first competed internationally as a Junior, coming 9th in the coxless four at the 1993 Junior World Championships...
  
  
• Jan Willem Gabriëls
• Joeri de Groot
  Joeri de Groot
  Joeri de Groot is a Dutch rower. He finished 4th in the men's lightweight coxless four at the 2004 Summer Olympics.- External links :* at sports-reference.com...
  
  
• Gerard van der Linden
  Gerard van der Linden
  Gerard van der Linden is a rower from the Netherlands.Van der Linden started rowing in 1992 and made his international senior debut in the lightweight fours at the 2000 World Championships in Zagreb. Together with Ivo Snijders, Dylan van der Linde and Coen Eggenkamp he finished on the 9th position...
  
  
• Dirk Lippits
  Dirk Lippits
  Dirk Reinier Lippits is a Dutch rower, born in Geldrop, North Brabant. He won a silver medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in the Men's Quadruple Sculls. In 2004, Lippits took part in the men's single sculls, finishing fourth in the C Final.-References:...
  
  
• Daniël Mensch
  Daniël Mensch
  Daniël Theodoor Mensch is a Dutch athlete who won the silver medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics for rowing as a member of the 8-man Dutch rowing team.-References:...
  
  
• Diederik Simon
  Diederik Simon
  Diederik Rudolf Simon is a rower from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics...
  
  
• Ivo Snijders
  Ivo Snijders
  Ivo Snijders is a rower from the Netherlands.Snijders started rowing in 1995 and made his international senior debut in the lightweight fours at the 2000 World Championships in Zagreb. Together with Gerard van der Linden, Dylan van der Linde and Coen Eggenkamp he finished on the 9th position...
  
  
• Matthijs Vellenga
  Matthijs Vellenga
  Matthijs Vellenga is a rower from the Netherlands.His career highlight so far was in Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he won the silver medal in the eights together with Michiel Bartman, Geert-Jan Derksen, Gerritjan Eggenkamp, Daniël Mensch, Diederik Simon, Jan-Willem Gabriëls, Gijs...
  
  
• Gijs Vermeulen
  Gijs Vermeulen
  Gijs Vermeulen is a rower from the Netherlands.His career highlight so far was in Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he won the silver medal in the eights together with Michiel Bartman, Geert-Jan Derksen, Gerritjan Eggenkamp, Daniël Mensch, Diederik Simon, Matthijs Vellenga, Jan-Willem...
  
  

Women:

• Femke Dekker
  Femke Dekker
  Femke Dekker is a Dutch rower from the Netherlands.Dekker started rowing in 1990 and made her international debut in the double sculls at the 1995 Junior World Championships in Poznan. Together with Christel Rijnten she won the bronze medal...
  
  
• Hurnet Dekkers
  Hurnet Dekkers
  Hurnet Dekkers is a Dutch rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
  
  
• Marit van Eupen
  Marit van Eupen
  Marit van Eupen is a rower from the Netherlands.Together with Kirsten van der Kolk she participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where they finished in sixth position in the lightweight double sculls. Four years later they took part in Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympics where they won the...
  
  
• Annemiek de Haan
  Annemiek de Haan
  Annemiek de Haan is a rower from the Netherlands.De Haan started rowing in 1999 and made her international debut in the fours at the 1999 Junior World Championships in Plovdiv. Together with Melina Bus, Anja Mourik and Mirthe Kamp she won the bronze medal...
  
  
• Nienke Hommes
  Nienke Hommes
  Nienke Hommes is a Dutch rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
  
  
• Kirsten van der Kolk
  Kirsten van der Kolk
  Kirsten Irene Merian van der Kolk is a rower from the Netherlands.Together with Marit van Eupen she participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where they finished in sixth position in the lightweight double sculls. Four years later they took part in Athens at the 2004 Summer Olympics where...
  
  
• Annemariek van Rumpt
• Sarah Siegelaar
  Sarah Siegelaar
  Sarah Siegelaar is a rower from the Netherlands.Siegelaar took part in the World Championships of 2003 in Milan winning the silver medal in the fours. With the Dutch eights she qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and she and her team mates rowed to the bronze medal...
  
  
• Marlies Smulders
  Marlies Smulders
  Marlies Smulders is a rower from the Netherlands.With the Dutch eights Smulders qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and she and her team mates rowed to the bronze medal. In 2007 she returned to the eights in which the Dutch only became seventh at the World Championships...
  
  
• Helen Tanger
  Helen Tanger
  Helen Tanger is a rower from the Netherlands.-Early life and education:Tanger is a graduate of Syracuse University in New York, earning her degree in 2001.-Athletic career:...
  
  
• Froukje Wegman
  Froukje Wegman
  Froukje Wegman is a Dutch rower.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
  
  
• Ester Workel
  Ester Workel
  Ester Workel is a rowing cox from the Netherlands.With the Dutch eights she qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and she led her team mates rowing to the bronze medal. They won another bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships in Gifu...
  
  

Sailing

Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Sailing at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place at the Agios Kosmas Olympic Sailing Centre with eleven events being contested.The events were split into four classes for men, four for women, and three mixed classes that were open to both men and women...

• women's yngling, 4th place: Annelies Thies, Annemieke Bes
  Annemieke Bes
  Annemieke Marileen Bes is a Dutch sailor.Bes started sailing in 1990 and competed at Olympic international level since 1999 where she started in the Europe class...
  
   and Petronella de Jong
• men's tornado, 5th place: Mitch Booth
  Mitch Booth
  Mitch Booth is a Dutch sailor. He is a two time Olympic medalist and ten time World Champion in the Tornado, Hobie, A class and Formula 18 classes....
  
   and Herbert Dercksen
  Herbert Dercksen
  Herbert Willem Constant Dercksen is a former Dutch sailor. He won five Dutch titles, one European title and three World titles....
  
  
• men's 470, 6th place: Sven Coster
  Sven Coster
  Sven Coster is a Dutch sailor.Coster participates in the 470-class alongside his brother Kalle Coster. Together they became sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In 2007 in Cascais they finished in second position at the World Championship, earning them the silver medal...
  
   and Kalle Coster
  Kalle Coster
  Kalle Coster is a Dutch sailor.Coster participates in the 470-class alongside his brother Sven Coster. Together they became sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In 2007 in Cascais they finished in second position at the World Championship, earning them the silver medal...
  
  
• women's 470, 9th place: Lisa Westerhof and Margriet Matthijsse
  Margriet Matthijsse
  Margriet Matthijsse is a Dutch sailor and Olympic champion.She received a silver medal in the Europe Class at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and again a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney....
  
  
• men's star, 14th place: Mark Neeleman
  Mark Neeleman
  Mark Neeleman is a Sailor from The Netherlands, who competed five time in the Olympic Games.-Results:* Olympic Games** 1980, Finn: 8** 1980, Finn: 9** 1992, Star with Jos Schrier: 4...
  
   and Peter van Niekerk
• men's finn, 19th place: Jaap Zielhuis
• mixed 49er, 19th place: Carolijn Brouwer
  Carolijn Brouwer
  Carolijn Mariëlle Brouwer is a professional sailorShe won the International Sailing Federation highest award in 1998 the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards....
  
  
• men's mistral, 20th place: Joeri van Dijk
  Joeri van Dijk
  Joeri van Dijk is a Dutch sailor, who won his first race in 2000 when capturing the Mistral North Sea Cup Series held in Grevelingen in the Netherlands. In the same year he became Youth World Champion in Sydney...
  
  

Shooting

Shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics

In shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 390 competitors from 106 nations contested 17 events . The competition took place at the Markopoulo Olympic Shooting Centre, located in the east of the Greek region of Attica....

Men:

• Dick Boschman
• Hennie Dompeling
• Jan-Cor van der Greef

Swimming

Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Olympic Aquatic Centre with the athletes competing in 32 events. There was a total of 937 participants from 152 countries competing.-Medal table:-Men's events:...

Men:

• Pieter van den Hoogenband
  Pieter van den Hoogenband
  Pieter Cornelis Ruud Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch former swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Joris Keizer
  Joris Keizer
  Joris Gerhard Keizer is a retired butterfly swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the semi finals of the 100m Butterfly, and finished in fourth place with the Men's...
  
  
• Johan Kenkhuis
  Johan Kenkhuis
  Johan Kenkhuis is an Olympic medal winning Dutch swimmer.From a young age, Kenkhuis had a strong interest in swimming. In 1998, he won gold medals in both the 100 meter and 200 meter freestyle events in the European Junior Championships...
  
  
• Thijs van Valkengoed
  Thijs van Valkengoed
  Thijs Maarten van Valkengoed is a breaststroke swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...
  
  
• Mark Veens
  Mark Veens
  Mark Hermanus Maria Veens is a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at three consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia as a member of the 4×100 m freestyle .Veens' finest hour came at the European Short Course Swimming...
  
  
• Mitja Zastrow
  Mitja Zastrow
  Mitja Kolia Zastrow is a Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. Originally from Germany, Zastrow was born and raised in Wuppertal, near Düsseldorf. He became a naturalized Dutch citizen in July 2003, after a conflict with the German Swimming Association...
  
  
• Klaas-Erik Zwering
  Klaas-Erik Zwering
  Klaas-Erik Zwering is a former Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. He is currently studying MBO entrepreneurship as he trained in Eindhoven with the PSV Eindhoven swim club...
  
  

Women:

• Madelon Baans
  Madelon Baans
  Madelon Baans is a retired female breaststroke swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for her native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia...
  
  
• Inge de Bruijn
  Inge de Bruijn
  Inge de Bruijn is a Dutch former swimmer. She was a four-time Olympic champion and a former world record holder.-Biography:De Bruijn was born in Barendrecht, South Holland, and tried several sports before settling with swimming....
  
  
• Inge Dekker
  Inge Dekker
  Inge Dekker is a butterfly and freestyle swimmer from Netherlands, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch women's 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She did so alongside Inge de Bruijn, Marleen Veldhuis and Chantal Groot...
  
  
• Chantal Groot
  Chantal Groot
  Chantal Groot is a butterfly and freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who has represented her country in many international championships since 1999...
  
  
• Annabel Kosten
  Annabel Kosten
  Annabel Kosten is a retired freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who won the bronze medal with the Dutch women's 4×100 m freestyle relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-Career:...
  
  
• Celina Lemmen
• Stefanie Luiken
• Haike van Stralen
• Marleen Veldhuis
  Marleen Veldhuis
  Magdalena Johanna Maria Veldhuis is a professional swimmer from the Netherlands. She is world record holder in 4 events . Veldhuis has won 6 world championships gold medals and 20 European championships gold medals...
  
  

Synchronized swimming

Synchronized swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Synchronized swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held in the Olympic Aquatic Centre where 104 competitors challenged for 2 gold medals in the duet and team events. Each event was made up of a technical and free routine with the points added together to determine the medalists.-Medal...

• Bianca van der Velden
  Bianca van der Velden
  Bianca van der Velden is a Dutch competitor in synchronized swimming in which she forms a duet with her twin sister Sonja....
  
  
• Sonja van der Velden
  Sonja van der Velden
  Sonja van der Velden is a Dutch competitor in synchronized swimming in which she forms a duet with her twin sister Bianca.Sonja and Bianca took part in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where they finished in 13th position...
  
  

Table tennis

Table tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics

thumb|rightTable tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics took place in the Galatsi Olympic Hall with 172 competitors in 4 events.-Medal summary:-Medal table:-References:*...

Men:

• Danny Heister
  Danny Heister
  Danny Heister is a Dutch professional table tennis player.-Career highlights:Summer Olympic Games:...
  
  
• Trinko Keen
  Trinko Keen
  thumb|Trinko Keen 2007 in EindhovenTrinko Keen is a Dutch professional table tennis player. He is the younger brother of Gerdie Keen.-Career highlights:Summer Olympic Games:thumb|Trinko Keen 2007 in Eindhoven...
  
  

Taekwondo

Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics were held in the Sports Pavilion at the Faliro Coastal Zone Olympic Complex where 124 competitors competed in eight events, four each for men and women....

Men:

• Patrick Stevens

Women:

• Charmie Sobers

Triathlon

Triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, the triathlon events were held at the Vouliagmeni Olympic Centre. Fifty triathletes contested the female event on August 25, and the same number contested the male event on August 26, making up a total of 100 competitors....

In the Netherlands' second appearance at the Olympic triathlon, only two Dutch women competed. Veteran Wieke Hoogzaad

Wieke Hoogzaad

Ludowieka Victoria Hoogzaad is an athlete from the Netherlands, who is nicknamed Wiki de Viking. She competes in triathlon....

 matched her rank from four years earlier, despite a time that was three seconds slower.

Women's Individual Competition:

• Wieke Hoogzaad
  Wieke Hoogzaad
  Ludowieka Victoria Hoogzaad is an athlete from the Netherlands, who is nicknamed Wiki de Viking. She competes in triathlon....
  
   — 2:09:47.21 (→ 25th place)
• Tracy Looze
  Tracy Looze
  Tracy Looze-Hargreaves is an athlete from the Netherlands, although she was born in Australia. She competes in triathlon, and got her Dutch passport by marrying Dutch triathlete Dennis Looze....
  
   — 2:10:35.81 (→ 29th place)

Men's Indoor Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B):
• Defeated Russia (3-2)
• Lost to United States (0-3)
• Lost to Brazil (1-3)
• Lost to Italy (0-3)
• Defeated Australia (3-2) → did not advance
• Team Roster:
• Rob Bontje
  Rob Bontje
  Johannes Cornelius Bontje is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he ended up in ninth place with the Dutch Men's National Team.-References:...
  
  
• Albert Cristina
  Albert Cristina
  Albert Maximo Cristina is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. After having finished in fifth place in Sydney, Australia he ended up in ninth place with the Dutch Men's National Team four years later in...
  
  
• Kay van Dijk
  Kay van Dijk
  Kay van Dijk is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he ended up in ninth place with the Dutch Men's National Team....
  
  
• Nico Freriks
  Nico Freriks
  Nico Petrus Johannes Freriks is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he ended up in ninth place with the Dutch Men's National Team. Freriks was named Best Setter at the 2004 Men's Volleyball Olympic...
  
  
• Dirk-Jan van Gendt
  Dirk-Jan van Gendt
  Hendrik Theodorus Petrus van Gendt is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he ended up in ninth place with the Dutch Men's National Team.He currently plays for the Moerser Sportclub .-References:...
  
  
• Mike van de Goor
  Mike van de Goor
  Mike Willem Frank van de Goor is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996...
  
  
• Guido Görtzen
  Guido Görtzen
  Guido Görtzen is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. There he won the gold medal with the Dutch Men's National Team by defeating archrivals Italy in the final .-References:...
  
  
• Robert Horstink
  Robert Horstink
  Robert Horstink is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece...
  
  
• Marko Klok
  Marko Klok
  Marko Klok is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in two Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain...
  
  
• Reinder Nummerdor
  Reinder Nummerdor
  Reinder Aart Nummerdor is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000....
  
  
• Richard Schuil
  Richard Schuil
  Richard Schuil is a beach volleyball player from the Netherlands. He is a former volleyball player, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia...
  
  
• Jeroen Trommel
  Jeroen Trommel
  Jeroen Paul Trommel is a volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. There he finished in ninth place with the Dutch Men's National Team....
  
  
• Head Coach: Bert Goedkoop
  Bert Goedkoop
  Bert Goedkoop is a Dutch volleyball player and coach. Among his accomplishments, he was head coach of the 2001 Dutch national men's team when it took 7th at the World League finals in Katowice and head coach of the Netherlands women's national volleyball team when it took the 1995 European...
  
  

Women's Beach Competition

• Rebekka Kadijk
  Rebekka Kadijk
  Rebekka de Kogel-Kadijk is a Dutch professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player born in Werkendam.In indoor volleyball Kadijk started her career in 1992 at Foranto Werkendam. Other teams she played for were Sliedrecht Sport, Cornix Schelle and AMVJ. She was also part of the Dutch...
  
   and Marrit Leenstra
  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
• Lost to Eva Celbová
  Eva Celbová
  Eva Celbová-Ryšavá is a female beach volleyball player from the Czech Republic, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004...
  
   and Sona Nováková
  Sona Nováková
  Soňa Nováková-Dosoudilová is a female beach volleyball player from the Czech Republic. She twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 2000 and 2004...
  
   (CZE), 0-2
• Lost to Kerri Walsh
  Kerri Walsh
  Kerri Lee Walsh-Jennings is an American professional beach volleyball player.Walsh-Jennings and teammate Misty May-Treanor were the gold medalists in beach volleyball at both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics...
  
   and Misty May (USA), 0-2
• Lost to Ryoko Tokuno and Chiaki Kusuhara
  Chiaki Kusuhara
  is a Japanese Olympic beach volleyballer. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and is partnered with Mika Teru Saiki.-External links:**...
  
  (JPN), 1-2 → did not advance

External links

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