Netherlands at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Flag of the Netherlands
IOC code	NED
NOC	Dutch Olympic Committee* Dutch Sports Federation
Website	www.nocnsf.nl/en
in Beijing, China 4–20 February 2022
Competitors	41 (21 men and 20 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearers (opening)	Kjeld Nuis Lindsay van Zundert
Flag bearer (closing)	Irene Schouten
Medals Ranked 6th	Gold 8 Silver 5 Bronze 4 Total 17
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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The Netherlands competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.^[1]^[2]

The Netherlands won eight gold medals at these Games, matching their gold medal hauls from 2014 and 2018, although the total number of medals won decreased from 24 in 2014 to 20 in 2018 and 17 in 2022.

Speed skater Irene Schouten was the flagbearer during the closing ceremony.^[3]

Medalists

Further information: 2022 Winter Olympics medal table and List of 2022 Winter Olympics medal winners

The following Dutch competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Irene Schouten	Speed skating	Women's 3000 metres	5 February
Gold	Ireen Wüst	Speed skating	Women's 1500 metres	7 February
Gold	Kjeld Nuis	Speed skating	Men's 1500 metres	8 February
Gold	Irene Schouten	Speed skating	Women's 5000 metres	10 February
Gold	Suzanne Schulting	Short track speed skating	Women's 1000 metres	11 February
Gold	Suzanne Schulting Selma Poutsma Xandra Velzeboer Yara van Kerkhof	Short track speed skating	Women's 3000 metre relay	13 February
Gold	Thomas Krol	Speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	18 February
Gold	Irene Schouten	Speed skating	Women's mass start	19 February
Silver	Patrick Roest	Speed skating	Men's 5000 metres	6 February
Silver	Patrick Roest	Speed skating	Men's 10,000 metres	11 February
Silver	Suzanne Schulting	Short track speed skating	Women's 500 metres	7 February
Silver	Thomas Krol	Speed skating	Men's 1500 metres	8 February
Silver	Jutta Leerdam	Speed skating	Women's 1000 metres	17 February
Bronze	Antoinette de Jong	Speed skating	Women's 1500 metres	7 February
Bronze	Kimberley Bos	Skeleton	Women's	12 February
Bronze	Marijke Groenewoud Antoinette de Jong Irene Schouten Ireen Wüst	Speed skating	Women's team pursuit	15 February
Bronze	Suzanne Schulting	Short track speed skating	Women's 1500 metres	16 February

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Speed skating	6	4	2	12
Short track	2	1	1	4
Skeleton	0	0	1	1
Total	8	5	4	17

Medals by date
Day	Date				Total
Day 1	February 5	1	0	0	1
Day 2	February 6	0	1	0	1
Day 3	February 7	1	1	1	3
Day 4	February 8	1	1	0	2
Day 5	February 9	0	0	0	0
Day 6	February 10	1	0	0	1
Day 7	February 11	1	1	0	2
Day 8	February 12	0	0	1	1
Day 9	February 13	1	0	0	1
Day 10	February 14	0	0	0	0
Day 11	February 15	0	0	1	1
Day 12	February 16	0	0	1	1
Day 13	February 17	0	1	0	1
Day 14	February 18	1	0	0	1
Day 15	February 19	1	0	0	1
Day 16	February 20	0	0	0	0

Competitors

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

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	1	1	2
Bobsleigh	4	1	5
Figure skating	0	1	1
Short track speed skating	5	5	10
Skeleton	0	1	1
Snowboarding	2	2	4
Speed skating	9	9	18
Total	21	20	41

Alpine skiing

Main articles: Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

By meeting the basic qualification standards The Netherlands qualified one male and one female alpine skier.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Maarten Meiners	Men's giant slalom	1:06.03	22	1:09.45	20	2:15.48	18
Adriana Jelinkova	Women's giant slalom	DNF		Did not advance
Adriana Jelinkova	Women's slalom	Did not start

Bobsleigh

Main articles: Bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

The Netherlands qualified three sleds (two-man, four-man and women's monobob) over the course of the 2021–22 Bobsleigh World Cup.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ivo de Bruin Jelen Franjic	Two-man	1:00.46	27	1:00.36	18	1:00.35	20	Did not advance		3:01.17	23
Ivo de Bruin Janko Franjic Jelen Franjic Dennis Veenker	Four-man	59.85	26	1:00.07	24	1:00.08	26	Did not advance		3:00.00	26
Karlien Sleper	Women's monobob	1:05.88	16	1:06.59	16	1:05.85	11	1:06.65	18	4:24.97	16

Figure skating

Main articles: Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

In the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, the Netherlands secured one quota in the ladies singles competition.^[8]

Athlete	Event	SP		FS		Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Lindsay van Zundert	Women's singles	59.24	22	116.57	16	175.81	18

Short track speed skating

Main articles: Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

The Netherlands qualified all three relays and the maximum of five athletes in each gender.^[9]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Itzhak de Laat	500 m	No Time	4	Did not advance					=28
Dylan Hoogerwerf		No Time	4	Did not advance					=28
Jens van 't Wout		PEN	Did not advance
Itzhak de Laat	1000 m	1:24.332	3 AA	1:42.490	3 AA	1:24.229	3 FB	1:35.925	5
Sjinkie Knegt		1:23.097	2 Q	YC	5	Disqualified
Jens van 't Wout		1:23.946	3	Did not advance					19
Sjinkie Knegt	1500 m	—		2:12.208	1 Q	PEN	7	Did not advance	20
Sven Roes				2:18.687	2 Q	2:10.841	4 FB	2:18.299	14
Itzhak de Laat				3:08.907	5	Did not advance			30
Itzhak de Laat Sjinkie Knegt Sven Roes Jens van 't Wout	5000 m relay	—				6:37.927	3 FB	6:39.780	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Selma Poutsma	500 m	43.472	1 Q	1:07.285	4	Did not advance			15
Suzanne Schulting		42.379 OR	1 Q	42.922	1 Q	42.475	1 FA	42.559
Xandra Velzeboer		42.563	1 Q	PEN	5	Did not advance			16
Selma Poutsma	1000 m	1:28.115	2 Q	1:29.09	3	Did not advance			14
Suzanne Schulting		1:27.292 OR	1 Q	1:26.514 WR	1 Q	1:28.10	1 FA	1:28.391
Xandra Velzeboer		1:30.454	2 Q	1:26.592	2 Q	1:27.80	5 FB	1:29.668	5
Suzanne Schulting	1500 m	—		2:18.810	1 Q	2:18.942	1 FA	2:17.865
Xandra Velzeboer				2:21.148	2 Q	2:18.303	3 FA	2:18.781	5
Rianne de Vries				2:22.244	4 ADV	2:18.712	5	Did not advance	16
Selma Poutsma Suzanne Schulting Yara van Kerkhof Xandra Velzeboer	3000 m relay	—				4:03.409	1 FA	4:04.133 OR

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Itzhak de Laat Sjinkie Knegt Selma Poutsma Suzanne Schulting Jens van 't Wout Xandra Velzeboer	2000 m relay	2:36.437 OR	1 Q	2:51.919	4 FB	2:36.966	4

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

Skeleton

Main articles: Skeleton at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Skeleton at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

The Netherlands qualified one female skeleton racer over the course of the 2021–22 Skeleton World Cup.^[10]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kimberley Bos	Women's	1:02.51	10	1:02.22	2	1:01.86	4	1:01.87	2	4:08.46

Snowboarding

Main articles: Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

The Netherlands have qualified for 4 quota places (2 men, 2 women) racer over the course of the 2021–22 Snowboard World Cup.^[11]

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification					Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best/Total	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best/Total	Rank
Niek van der Velden	Men's slopestyle	26.51	46.03	—	46.03	22	did not advance
Niek van der Velden	Men's big air	79.00	~~60.00~~	63.75	142.75	11	83.75	78.25	~~26.75~~	162.00	6
Melissa Peperkamp	Women's slopestyle	61.26	60.18	—	61.26	13	did not advance
Melissa Peperkamp	Women's big air	60.00	68.25	~~58.00~~	128.25	11	~~64.25~~	72.00	69.75	141.75	6

Parallel

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Michelle Dekker	Women's giant slalom	1:28.73	13 Q	Nadyrshina (ROC) W +0.03	Dujmovits (AUT) W +4.29	Ledecká (CZE) L DNF	Kotnik (SLO) L DNF	4

Snowboard cross

Athlete	Event	Seeding		1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
Glenn de Blois	Men's	1:19.69	27 Q	4	Did not advance			28

Speed skating

Main articles: Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

The Dutch Olympic Committee selected the maximum allowed delegation of nine men and nine women, largely based on the results of the Olympic qualification tournament, held in December 2021.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Jorrit Bergsma	5000 m	6:13.18	5
Jorrit Bergsma	10000 m	12:48.94	4
Marcel Bosker	1500 m	1:45.42	9
Sven Kramer	5000 m	6:17.04	9
Thomas Krol	500 m	35.06	18
	1000 m	1:07.92
	1500 m	1:43.55
Kjeld Nuis	1500 m	1:43.21 OR
Hein Otterspeer	1000 m	1:08.80	10
Patrick Roest	5000 m	6:09.31
Patrick Roest	10000 m	12:44.59
Merijn Scheperkamp	500 m	34.736	12
Kai Verbij	500 m	34.87	14
Kai Verbij	1000 m	1:14.17	30

Women

Athlete	Event	Race
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Carlijn Achtereekte	3000 m	4:02.21	7
Marijke Groenewoud	1500 m	1:54.97	5
Sanne in 't Hof	5000 m	6:59.77	7
Antoinette de Jong	1000 m	1:14.92	5
	1500 m	1:54.82
	3000 m	4:02.37	8
Michelle de Jong	500 m	37.97	13
Femke Kok	500 m	37.39	6
Jutta Leerdam	500 m	37.34	5
Jutta Leerdam	1000 m	1:13.83
Irene Schouten	3000 m	3:56.93 OR
Irene Schouten	5000 m	6:43.51 OR
Ireen Wüst	1000 m	1:15.11	6
Ireen Wüst	1500 m	1:53.28 OR

Mass start

Athlete	Event	Semifinal			Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Time	Rank	Points	Time	Rank
Jorrit Bergsma	Men's mass start	3	7:44.42	8 Q	3	7:50.25	9
Sven Kramer	Men's mass start	3	7:58.22	7 Q	0	7:13.37	16
Irene Schouten	Women's mass start	13	8:34.43	4 Q	60	8:14.73
Marijke Groenewoud	Women's mass start	9	8:30.92	5 Q	1	9:12.86	11

Team pursuit

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Marcel Bosker Sven Kramer Patrick Roest	Men's team pursuit	Canada (CAN) W 3:38.90	4 Q	Norway (NOR) L 3:39.62	2 FB	United States (USA) L 3:41.62	4
Marijke Groenewoud Antoinette de Jong Irene Schouten Ireen Wüst	Women's team pursuit	Norway (NOR) W 2:57.26	3 Q	Canada (CAN) L 2:55.93	2 FB	ROC W 2:56.86

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

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Netherlands at the Olympics

Summer Olympic Games	1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter Olympic Games	1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Intercalated Games	1906

The Netherlands hosted the 1928 Summer Olympics.