Netherlands at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. 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.

Netherlands at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Netherlands
IOC code	NED
NOC	Dutch Olympic Committee* Dutch Sports Federation
Website	www.nocnsf.nl (in Dutch)
in Turin
Competitors	33 (16 men, 17 women) in 4 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Jan Bos (speedskating)
Flag bearer (closing)	Rintje Ritsma (speedskating)
Medals Ranked 10th	Gold 3 Silver 2 Bronze 4 Total 9
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Historically, the Dutch have only won medals in skating; of their 78 Winter Olympic medals since 1952, 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 Germany.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Ireen Wüst	Speed skating	Women's 3000 m
Gold	Marianne Timmer	Speed skating	Women's 1000 m
Gold	Bob de Jong	Speed skating	Men's 10000 m
Silver	Sven Kramer	Speed skating	Men's 5000 m
Silver	Renate Groenewold	Speed skating	Women's 3000 m
Bronze	Sven Kramer Rintje Ritsma Mark Tuitert Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars	Speed skating	Men's team pursuit
Bronze	Erben Wennemars	Speed skating	Men's 1000 m
Bronze	Ireen Wüst	Speed skating	Women's 1500 m
Bronze	Carl Verheijen	Speed skating	Men's 10000 m

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Final
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Run 4	Total	Rank
Ilse Broeders Jeanette Pennings	Two-woman	1:00.13	did not start
Arend Glas Sybren Jansma	Two-man	56.70	56.54	56.95	57.15	3:47.36	19
Eline Jurg Kitty van Haperen	Two-woman	58.05	58.08	58.42	58.35	3:52.90	11
Arend Glas Sybren Jansma Arno Klaassen Vincent Kortbeek	Four-man	55.82	56.08	55.78	55.51	3:43.19	16

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Cees Juffermans	Men's 500 m	42.849	3 Q	42.515	3	did not advance			11
	Men's 1500 m	2:27.696	2 Q	—		DNF		did not advance	16
Niels Kerstholt	Men's 1000 m	disqualified		did not advance
	Men's 1500 m	2:23.854	2 Q	—		2:21.748	3	Final B 2:24.962	10
Liesbeth Mau Asam	Women's 500 m	45.500	3	did not advance					15
	Women's 1000 m	1:38.039	2 Q	1:34.034	3	did not advance			10
	Women's 1500 m	2:28.910	2 Q	—		2:26.370	6	did not advance	14

Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics

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

Athlete	Event	Qualifying Run 1		Qualifying Run 2		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Rank
Cheryl Maas	Women's halfpipe	38.6	4 Q	n/a		(8.7)	16.5	11

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

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Time	Rank	Opposition time	Opposition time	Opposition time	Opposition time	Rank
Nicolien Sauerbreij	Women's parallel giant slalom	1:22.17	12	Kober (GER) (1) L +0.03 (-1.50 +1.53)	did not advance			12

Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Final
				Time	Rank
Jan Bos	500 m	35.68	35.43	1:11.11	11
	1000 m	n/a		1:09.42	5
	1500 m	n/a		1:48.61	20
Bob de Jong	5000 m	n/a		6:22.12	6
	10000 m	n/a		13:01.57
Stefan Groothuis	1000 m	n/a		1:09.57	8
Sven Kramer	1500 m	n/a		1:48.36	15
	5000 m	n/a		6:16.40
	10000 m	n/a		13:18.14	7
Simon Kuipers	500 m	36.10	35.74	1:11.84	23
	1500 m	n/a		1:46.58	4
Beorn Nijenhuis	500 m	48.84	35.71	1:24.55	35
	1000 m	n/a		1:09.85	12
Carl Verheijen	5000 m	n/a		6:18.84	4
	10000 m	n/a		13:08.80
Erben Wennemars	500 m	35.46	35.84	1:11.30	16
	1000 m	n/a		1:09.32
	1500 m	n/a		1:46.71	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Final
				Time	Rank
Barbara De Loor	1000 m	n/a		1:16.73	6
Annette Gerritsen	500 m	39.12	38.97	1:18.09	12
	1000 m	n/a		1:18.33	23
Renate Groenewold	1500 m	n/a		1:59.33	9
	3000 m	n/a		4:03.48
	5000 m	n/a		7:11.32	9
Carien Kleibeuker	5000 m	n/a		7:12.18	10
Moniek Kleinsman	3000 m	n/a		4:13.81	17
Marianne Timmer	500 m	disqualified
	1000 m	n/a		1:16.05
	1500 m	n/a		2:00.45	14
Paulien van Deutekom	1500 m	n/a		2:00.15	13
Sanne van der Star	500 m	39.26	39.33	1:18.59	14
Ireen Wüst	1000 m	n/a		1:16.39	4
	1500 m	n/a		1:56.90
	3000 m	n/a		4:02.43

Team Pursuit

Mark Tuitert

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition time	Opposition time	Opposition time	Rank
Sven Kramer Rintje Ritsma Mark Tuitert Carl Verheijen Erben Wennemars	Men's team pursuit	3:48.02	3	Russia (6) W 3:44.65	Italy (2) L Overtaken	Bronze final  Norway (4) W 3:44.53
Paulien van Deutekom Renate Groenewold Moniek Kleinsman Gretha Smit Ireen Wüst	Women's team pursuit	3:06.67	4	Germany (5) L 3:03.65	did not advance	5th place final  United States (6) L 3:05.62	6

References

• Yahoo! Sports – 2006 Winter Olympics – Netherlands at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

Further references

• (in Dutch) Gekwalificeerde sporters Olympische Spelen 2006, from the Dutch Olympic Committee, retrieved 23 January 2006