Approximately 5 million of the 17 million people in the Netherlands are registered to one of the 35,000 sports clubs in the country. About two thirds of the population older than 15 years participates in sports weekly.
Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch retired swimmer. He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder.
Goes is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, in the province of Zeeland. The city of Goes has approximately 29,000 residents.
Geldrop-Mierlo is a municipality in southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. The municipality was created by the merger of the two former municipalities of Geldrop and Mierlo on 1 January 2004.
The Netherlands competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Rebekka de Kogel-Kadijk is a Dutch professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player born in Werkendam.
Albert Maximo Cristina is a retired 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 Athens, Greece.
Sebastiaan Jacques Henri "Bas" van de Goor is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta. Van de Goor was elected twice as the most valuable player of the Olympics. He was a middle blocker.
Avital Haim Selinger is a volleyball coach and former volleyball player. Selinger played with the Netherlands men's national volleyball team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where he won a silver medal.
Peter Blangé is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands who represented his native country in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul. Four years later, he helped the Dutch national team win the silver medal in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. Blangé then won the gold medal with the national team in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta by defeating Italy in the final. His final Olympic appearance as an athlete was in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. He was a setter.
Ronald ("Ron") Ferdinand Zwerver is a volleyball coach and former volleyball player from the Netherlands who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul. Zwerver was one of the dominant forces in Dutch volleyball in the 1990s. He was selected as the "best attacker" at both the 1990 and 1994 FIVB World Championships.
Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta, more commonly known as Cecilia Tait, is a Peruvian politician and retired volleyball player. She was a key player in the rise of the Peruvian women's national volleyball team in the 1980s.
Kevin Kahn Wong is a retired American professional beach volleyball player. He currently lives in Hawaii and runs a volleyball training program for youth.
Louise Bawden is an Australian volleyball and beach volleyball player. She represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in indoor volleyball, finishing in 9th. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in beach volleyball, but she and team-mate Becchara Palmer did not qualify from the pool stage.
Madelein Meppelink is a Dutch beach volleyball player.
Steven "Steve" Keir is a former Australian male volleyball player. He was part of the Australia men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, finishing 8th.
Scott Newcomb is a former Australian male volleyball player. Scott was part of the Australia men's national volleyball team. He competed with the Australian Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, finishing 8th. He was also in the Australian teams that competed in World League-1999, World Championships-1998, Grand Champions Cup-1997, World Student Games-1995 and Asian Championships-1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999, in which the team won the bronze medal at the 1997 and the silver medal at the 1999 Asian Volleyball Championships and Scott finished as the best ranked setter at the 1997 championships and 2nd ranked setter at the 1999 championships. Scott played 290 International games for Australia, he also captained the team against Slovakia in Canberra in 1999 and was vice captain between 1998 and 2000. Scott played professional Volleyball in Germany for Duren in the Bundesliga (1996–1998) and in Holland for Ominworld in the Eredivisie (1998–2002) where he was the first Australian to win a domestic European Championship. Scott was named Australian Volleyball Player of the year in 1996 and came 2nd in this in 1997,1999 and 2000, he was also Queensland Volleyball player of the year in 1994,1995 and 1998. Scott was named Queensland Male Volleyball player of the Decade (1990–1999) and named in the Queensland Team of the last 50 years (1969–2019), alongside his father John Newcomb. They were the first Father and Son to represent Australia in Volleyball and are the only Father and Son to Captain Australia in Volleyball. Scott has also coached junior club teams in Holland and Germany, Queensland Junior teams and at the Queensland Academy of Sport.
Joost Kooistra is a Dutch former volleyball player. He was part of the Netherlands men's national volleyball team. He competed with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, finishing fifth.
Mohamed Moselhy is the head coach of El-Ahly Volleyball team. he was a former Egyptian male volleyball player at El-Ahly for 20 years. He was included in the Egypt men's national volleyball team that finished 11th at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. His brother, Hany Mouselhy, was also part of the national volleyball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
