Jan Bos is a Dutch former speedskater and sprint cyclist. In the late 1990s he was world champion in speed skating and he competed in the 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.
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.
Martine Ohr is a retired Dutch field hockey striker, who won a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics and a bronze at the 1988 Games. She also participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics, where the Dutch team finished sixth. Between 1983 and 1992 she played 109 international matches and scored 19 goals.
Ellen Marijn Hoog is a former Dutch field hockey player, who is regarded as one of the best Dutch hockey players of her generation.
Elisabeth "Lisette" Anthonius Maria Ignatius Sevens is a retired Dutch field hockey defender, who won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Sophie Pauline von Weiler is a retired Dutch field hockey forward, who won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Daphne Touw is a former field hockey goalkeeper from the Netherlands, who played 68 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team. She made her debut on 3 July 1993 against Germany, and was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Naomi van As is a Dutch field hockey player who plays as a forward/midfield for a Dutch club MHC Laren.
Willemijn Margaretha Duyster is a former Dutch field hockey defender, who played 87 international matches for the Dutch national team, in which she scored no goals.
Casey Sablowski is an Australian women's field hockey player. Sablowski plays as a midfielder.
The 2011 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the 10th edition of the women's field hockey championship organised by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from 20 August to 27 August 2011 in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
The Netherlands competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Dutch athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games since their official debut in 1908, with the exception of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, which the Netherlands boycotted because of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The Netherlands National Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1988. A total of 175 athletes, 95 men and 80 women, competed in 18 sports.
Twelve national teams competed in the women's Olympic hockey tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Sixteen players were officially enrolled in each squad. Two reserve players could also be nominated to be available should a player enrolled in the official squad become injured during the tournament.
Margot van Geffen is a Dutch field hockey player.
Bob de Voogd is a Dutch field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Belgian club Braxgata.
Nicholas Haig is a New Zealand field hockey player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament.
Laurien Leurink is a Dutch field hockey midfielder who won a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Kimberley Bos is a Dutch skeleton racer who competes on the Skeleton World Cup circuit. She started competing internationally in 2009, originally in bobsleigh, and was selected to the Dutch national team in 2010; she switched to skeleton for the 2013–14 European Cup season. Her personal coach is Urta Rozenstruik, and she rides a Bromley sled. Away from the track, Bos is a physiotherapy student, occasionally serving as "unofficial physio" to the other athletes. Bos was the only woman named to represent the Netherlands in skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where she finished eighth. Bos returned for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, where she won the bronze medal and became the first Dutch skeleton athlete to win a medal.
Malou Pheninckx is a Dutch women's field hockey player who currently plays as a midfielder for Netherlands women's national field hockey team. She also pursued her higher education at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the field of medicine.
Willemijn is a Dutch feminine given name. The name originated as a feminine form of the masculine Willem, which is the Dutch version of the Germanic name Wilhelm. Wilhelm can be literally translated as wil meaning "willful" or "strong" and helm meaning "helmet", and is often interpreted as meaning "fierce helmet" or "fierce protector". The name is most common in the Netherlands but is also present in other Dutch-speaking countries, or countries with Dutch populations or heritage.
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