Netherlands at the 2015 European Games

Netherlands participated at the 2015 European Games, in Baku, Azerbaijan from 12 to 28 June 2015.^[1]

Netherlands at the 2015 European Games
IOC code	NED
NOC	NOC*NSF
Website	www.nocnsf.nl
in Baku, Azerbaijan 12 – 28 June 2015
Competitors	117 in 17 sports
Flag bearers	Reshmie Oogink (opening) Twan van Gendt (closing)
Medals Ranked 9th	Gold 8 Silver 12 Bronze 9 Total 29
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117 athletes had been selected by the Dutch Olympic Committee to represent the Netherlands.^[2]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Ellen van Dijk Cycling Women's time trial 18 June  Gold Li Jiao Table tennis Women's singles 19 June  Gold Lieke Wevers Gymnastics Women's balance beam 20 June  Gold Marrit Steenbergen Swimming Women's 100 metre freestyle 24 June  Gold Nouchka Fontijn Boxing Women's 75 kg 25 June  Gold Kim Polling Judo Women's 70 kg 26 June  Gold Henk Grol Judo Men's 100 kg 27 June  Gold Marhinde Verkerk Judo Women's 78 kg 27 June  Silver Rachel Klamer Triathlon Women's individual 13 June  Silver Stef Clement Cycling Men's time trial 18 June  Silver Britt Eerland Li Jie Li Jiao Table tennis Women's team 15 June  Silver Li Jie Table tennis Women's singles 19 June  Silver Casimir Schmidt Gymnastics Men's vault 20 June  Silver Sjef van den Berg Archery Men's individual 22 June  Silver Laura van Engelen Frederique Janssen Pien Schravesande Marrit Steenbergen Swimming Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay 23 June  Silver Iris Tjonk Tes Schouten Josein Wijkhuis Marrit Steenbergen Swimming Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay 25 June  Silver Marrit Steenbergen Swimming Women's 50 metre freestyle 26 June  Silver Marrit Steenbergen Swimming Women's 200 metre freestyle 26 June  Silver Laura van Engelen Frederique Janssen Marieke Tienstra Marrit Steenbergen Swimming Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay 27 June  Silver Twan van Gendt Cycling Men's BMX 28 June  Bronze Céline van Gerner Lisa Top Lieke Wevers Gymnastics Women's artistic team all-around 15 June  Bronze Annemiek van Vleuten Cycling Women's time trial 18 June  Bronze Lieke Wevers Gymnastics Women's artistic individual all-around 18 June  Bronze Sjef van den Berg Mitch Dielemans Rick van der Ven Archery Men's team 18 June  Bronze Anna van der Breggen Cycling Women's road race 20 June  Bronze Lisa Top Gymnastics Women's vault 20 June  Bronze Lieke Wevers Gymnastics Women's floor exercise 20 June  Bronze Guillaume Elmont Judo Men's 90 kg 27 June  Bronze Guusje Steenhuis Judo Women's 78 kg 27 June

Medals by sport Sport Total Judo 3 0 2 5 Swimming 1 5 0 6 Cycling 1 2 2 5 Table Tennis 1 2 0 3 Gymnastics 1 1 4 6 Boxing 1 0 0 1 Archery 0 1 1 2 Triatlon 0 1 0 1 Total 8 12 9 29

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Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2015 European Games

The Netherlands has qualified for three quota places in both the men's and the women's archery events at the Games, and as a result has also qualified for the team events.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Rick van der Ven	Men's individual	679	2	Guidi W 6–0	Weiss W 7–3	Ivashko W 7–1	Prilepov L 4–6	Did not advance		5
Sjef van den Berg		678	3	Lapsins W 6–0	Hristov W 7–3	Ruban W 6–4	Plihon W 7–3	Prilepov W 6–0	Alvariño L 1–7
Mitch Dielemans		655	29	Frangilli W 7–3	Ivanytskyy L 3–7	Did not advance				17
Shireen-Zoe de Vries	Women's individual	630	27	Alarcón L w/o	Did not advance					33
Esther Deden		615	47	Myszor W 6–4	Schuh L 4–6	Did not advance				17
Annemarie der Kinderen		608	51	Ruggieri L 4–6	Did not advance					33
Rick van der Ven Sjef van den Berg Mitch Dielemans	Men's team	2012	1	—		Bye	Russia W 5–4	Ukraine L 3–5	France W 5–3
Shireen-Zoe de Vries Esther Deden Annemarie der Kinderen	Women's team	1853	13	—		Ukraine L 3–5	Did not advance			9
Shireen-Zoe de Vries Rick van der Ven	Mixed team	1309	8	—		Denmark W 6–0	Italy L 2–6	Did not advance		5

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2015 European Games

Team	Event	Group stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Sharon Beld Jinga Gosschalk Karen Heinen Karin Kuijt	Women's tournament	Switzerland L	Azerbaijan L	Greece L	4 Q	Russia L 12–20	Did not advance

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2015 European Games

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Peter Müllenberg	Men's Light Heavy	BYE	Karlidag W 3–0	Mammad L 0–3	Did not advance
Nouchka Fontijn	Women's Middle	—	Marshall W 3–0	Shambir W 3–0	Scheurich W 3–0	Laurell Nash W 3–0

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2015 European Games

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eef Haaze	Women's K-1 5000 metres	—				23:53.064	8

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2015 European Games

The Netherlands will participate in road cycling disciplines at the European Games.^[4]

Mountain biking

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Michiel van der Heijden	Men's cross country	DNF

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Stef Clement	Road Race	DNF
	Time Trial	1:00:46.08
Pim Ligthart	Road Race	DNF
Nick van de Lijke		DNF
Niki Terpstra		5:27:29	8
Wouter Wippert		5:33:43	30

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Chantal Blaak	Road Race	DNF
Lucinda Brand		3:25:53	24
Anna van der Breggen		3:20:36
Ellen van Dijk	Road Race	3:20:54	4
	Time trial	32:26.87
Amy Pieters	Road race	3:25:53	19
Annemiek van Vleuten	Road race	3:24:17	7
	Time trial	33:33.56

BMX

Athlete	Event	Seeding		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Twan van Gendt	Men's BMX	33.540	3 Q	3	1 Q	32.768	1 Q	33.887
Jelle van Gorkom		34.382	15 Q	6	2 Q	33.941	2 Q	1:05.020	8
Merle van Benthem	Women's BMX	38.301	9 Q	—		6	2 Q	38.370	4
Laura Smulders		38.962	11 Q	—		4	1 Q	43.176	5

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 2015 European Games

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Pascal Faatz	10 m platform	334.45	19	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Daphne Wils	1 m springboard	350.10	12	373.95	11
	3 m springboard	343.60	17	Did not advance
Kimberley Lee	10 m platform	291.90	18	Did not advance

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2015 European Games

Athlete	Event	Groupstage							Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Bas Verwijlen	Men's épée	Cimini L 4–5	Hanczvikkel W 5–3	Aliyev W 5–1	Dobrev W 5–1	Novosjolov L 1–5	von der Osten L 0–3	4 Q	Dida W 15–12	Nikishin W 15–8	Jerent L 9–15	Did not advance		5

Gymnastics

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2015 European Games

Netherlands has qualified 12 athletes.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jeroen Mooren	−60 kg	—	Limare (FRA) W 010–000	McKenzie (GBR) W 011–000	Papinashvili (GEO) W 101–000	Mudranov (RUS) L 000–100	Bye	Chammartin (SUI) L 000–010	5
Dex Elmont	−73 kg	Bye	Shoka (GEO) W 010–000	Drebot (UKR) W 010–000	Muki (ISR) L 000–000	Did not advance	Ungvári (HUN) W 000–000	Van Tichelt (BEL) L 000–010	5
Guillaume Elmont	−90 kg	Bye	Mīlenbergs (LAT) W 010–000	Grossklaus (SUI) W 100–000	Gviniashvili (GEO) L 000–100	Did not advance	Žgank (SLO) W 011–000	Tóth (HUN) W 000–000
Henk Grol	−100 kg	—	Bye	Fletcher (GBR) W 010–000	Peters (GER) W 001–000	Fonseca (POR) W 010–000	Bye	Krpálek (CZE) W 001–000
Michael Korrel		—	Bloshenko (UKR) W 010–000	Frey (GER) L 000–010	Did not advance
Roy Meyer	+100 kg	—	Bye	Mettis (EST) W 000–000	Sasson (ISR) L 000–100	Did not advance	Khammo (UKR) L 000–111	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Birgit Ente	−52 kg	Maros (HUN) W 011–000	Cohen (ISR) W 100–000	Euranie (FRA) L 000–100	Did not advance	Florian (ROU) L 000–100	Did not advance
Sanne Verhagen	−57 kg	Bellorín (ESP) W 110–000	Ohâi (ROU) W 000–000	Monteiro (POR) L 000–000	Did not advance	Filzmoser (AUT) W 100–000	Gjakova (KOS) L 000–010	5
Juul Franssen	−63 kg	Szabó (HUN) W 000–000	Gwend (ITA) W 101–000	Trstenjak (SLO) L 001–001	Did not advance	Hermansson (SWE) W 100–000	Agbegnenou (FRA) L 000–011	5
Kim Polling	−70 kg	bye	Taeymans (BEL) W 100–000	Gercsák (HUN) W 100–000	Diedrich (GER) W 110–000	bye	Vargas Koch (GER) W 100–000
Marhinde Verkerk	−78 kg	bye	Maranić (CRO) W 110–000	Powell (GBR) W 101–000	Tcheuméo (FRA) W 010–000	bye	Malzahn (GER) W 010–000
Guusje Steenhuis		bye	De Saedelaere (BEL) W 101–000	Malzahn (GER) L 000–100	Did not advance	Turks (UKR) W 100–000	Tcheuméo (FRA) W 010–000
Tessie Savelkouls	+78 kg	bye	Külbs (GER) L 000–000	Did not advance

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2015 European Games

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Peter Hellenbrand	Men's 10 m air rifle	623.2	15	Did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2015 European Games

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jasmijn Boon	50 m freestyle	26.76	17	Did not advance
Frederique Janssen		26.67	13 Q	26.29	6 q	26.56	7
Pien Schravesande		27.04	26	Did not advance
Marrit Steenbergen		25.86	3 Q	25.56	1 Q	25.27
Frederique Janssen	100 m freestyle	57.34	14 Q	57.06	5	Did not advance
Marrit Steenbergen		55.18	1 Q	53.97	1 Q	53.97
Laura van Engelen	200 m freestyle	2:03.47	6 Q	2:02.39	5	Did not advance
Frederique Janssen		2:04.73	14	Did not advance
Marrit Steenbergen		2:02.47	5 Q	2:01.60	2 Q	1:58.99
Marrit Tienstra		2:04.55	12	Did not advance
Laura van Engelen	400 m freestyle	4:21.89	13	—		Did not advance
Iris Tjonk	50 m backstroke	30.22	=16 QSO	29.80	7	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke	1:03.68	6 Q	1:03.00	3 q	1:03.84	8
Jasmijn Boon	200 m backstroke	2:20.91	19	Did not advance
Marieke Tienstra		2:19.84	15 Q	2:17.41	6	Did not advance
Iris Tjonk		2:19.34	12 Q	2:17.21	5	Did not advance
Tes Schouten	50 m breaststroke	32.98	16 Q	32.90	7	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke	1:12.31	16 Q	1:12.78	16	Did not advance
Josien Wijkhuijs	50 m butterfly	27.45	2 Q	27.49	2 Q	27.20	4
Marieke Tienstra	200 m individual medley	2:21.89	13 Q	2:21.16	6	Did not advance
Pien Schravesande Frederique Janssen Josien Wijkhuijs* Laura van Engelen Marrit Steenbergen	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:47.75	2 Q	—		3:44.10
Marrit Steenbergen Frederique Janssen Marieke Tienstra Laura van Engelen	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	8:17.00	3 Q	—		8:04.65
Marieke Tienstra* Tes Schouten Josien Wijkhuijs Frederique Janssen Iris Tjonk	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:16.63	4 Q	—		4:07.99

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2015 European Games

Netherlands has qualified three athletes for the table tennis events.

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Li Jie	Women's singles	Bye	Szőcs (ROU) W 4–0	X Li (FRA) W 4–2	Y Han (GER) W 4–3	Ódorová (SVK) W 4–0	Li Jiao (NED) L 0–4
Li Jiao		Bye	Noskova (RUS) W 4–3	J Liu (AUT) W 4–0	Solja (GER) W 4–2	M Hu (TUR) W 4–2	Li Jie (NED) W 4-0
Britt Eerland Li Jiao Li Jie	Women's team	—		Serbia W 3–0	Poland W 3–2	Ukraine W 3–2	Germany L 2–3

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2015 European Games

Netherlands has qualified three athletes.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jeroen Wanrooij	Men's +80 kg	Sarı (TUR) W 10–9	Isayev (AZE) L 6–8	Did not advance	Bye	Golec (CRO) L 5–7	5
Joyce van Baaren	Women's 67 kg	Azizova (AZE) L 0–2	Did not advance		Tatar (TUR) L 0–3	Did not advance
Reshmie Oogink	Women's +67 kg	Skaar (NOR) W 11–5	Radoš (CRO) L 3–7	Did not advance

Triathlon

Main article: Triathlon at the 2015 European Games

Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total Time	Rank
Maaike Caelers	Women's	22:02	0:47	1:05:03	0:26	36:28	2:04:46	12
Rachel Klamer		20:16	0:53	1:04:06	0:34	35:55	2:01:44

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 2015 European Games

Women

Preliminary round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	5	4	0	1	78	29	+49	12[a]	Semifinals
2	Netherlands	5	4	0	1	86	34	+52	12[a]	Quarterfinals
3	Hungary	5	4	0	1	80	35	+45	12[a]
4	Germany	5	2	0	3	32	61	−29	6	7–10th place semifinals
5	Great Britain	5	1	0	4	33	74	−41	3	7–12th place quarterfinals
6	Israel	5	0	0	5	18	94	−76	0

Source: Baku 2015^[usurped]
Notes:

1. Greece 3 Pts, +5 GD; Netherlands 3 Pts, –1 GD; Hungary 3 Pts, –4 GD

12 June 2015 12:00

Report[usurped]

Netherlands

29–1

Israel

Water Polo Arena, Baku

13 June 2015 20:30

Report[usurped]

Greece

14–8

Netherlands

Water Polo Arena, Baku

14 June 2015 16:45

Report[usurped]

Netherlands

19–6

Great Britain

Water Polo Arena, Baku

15 June 2015 20:30

Report[usurped]

Netherlands

14–9

Hungary

Water Polo Arena, Baku

16 June 2015 12:15

Report[usurped]

Germany

4–16

Netherlands

Water Polo Arena, Baku

Quarterfinal

17 June 2015 10:30	Report[usurped]	Netherlands	12–18	Italy	Water Polo Arena, Baku Referees: Vlaho Radičević (CRO) Ivan Raković (SRB)
		Score by quarters: 3–6, 3–4, 2–5, 4–3
		Rogge 3	Goals	Cocchiere 6

Fifth place game

20 June 2015 15:00	Report[usurped]	Netherlands	9–10	Hungary	Water Polo Arena, Baku Referees: Ivan Raković (SRB) Radu Matache (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 2–1, 0–2, 3–5
		Mulder 3	Goals	three players 2

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 2015 European Games

Indoor volleyball

• Women's tournament – one team of 14 players

Maret Balkestein-Grothues
Yvon Beliën
Anne Buijs
Robin de Kruijf
Laura Dijkema
Nicole Koolhaas
Nicole Oude Luttikhuis
Judith Pietersen
Celeste Plak
Myrthe Schoot
Lonneke Sloetjes
Debby Stam-Pilon
Quinta Steenbergen
Femke Stoltenborg

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Serbia	5	4	1	13	14	4	3.500	426	359	1.187	Quarterfinals
2	Netherlands	5	4	1	11	12	7	1.714	432	405	1.067
3	Germany	5	3	2	9	12	8	1.500	428	434	0.986
4	Russia	5	2	3	5	7	11	0.636	392	406	0.966
5	Bulgaria	5	1	4	4	6	12	0.500	390	404	0.965
6	Croatia	5	1	4	3	4	13	0.308	352	412	0.854

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
13 Jun	20:00	Netherlands	3–1	Russia	25–19	21–25	25–22	25–21		96–87	Report[usurped]
15 Jun	14:30	Croatia	1–3	Netherlands	23–25	17–25	25–17	21–25		86–92	Report[usurped]
17 Jun	09:00	Netherlands	0–3	Germany	13–25	23–25	22–25			58–75	Report[usurped]
19 Jun	14:30	Serbia	2–3	Netherlands	25–20	22–25	28–26	16–25	9–15	100–111	Report[usurped]
21 Jun	11:00	Netherlands	3–0	Bulgaria	25–20	25–18	25–19			75–57	Report[usurped]

Quarterfinals

Date	Time		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total	Report
23 Jun	19:00	Azerbaijan	3–0	Netherlands	25–21	25–23	25–14			75–58	Report[usurped]

Beach volleyball

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Standing	Elimination Round	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Steven van de Velde Michiel van Dorsten	Men's	Pool E  Kubala – Hadrava (CZE) L 0 – 2 (18–21, 19–21)  Faiga – Hilman (ISR) L 0 – 2 (17–21, 16–21)  Sekerci – Mermer (TUR) L 1 – 2 (21–15, 17–21, 13–15)	4	did not advance
Sophie van Gestel Jantine van der Vlist	Women's	Pool D	1 Q	Bye	Schützenhöfer – Plesiutschnig (AUT) L 1 – 2 (18–21, 22–20, 13-15)	did not advance
Rimke Braakman Jolien Sinnema		Pool F	2 q	Karagkouni – Metheniti (GRE) W 2 – 0 (21–15, 21–17)	Longuet – Adelin (FRA) W 2 – 0 (22–20, 21–19)	Giombini – Toti (ITA) L 1 – 2 (19–21, 21–14, 16-18)	did not advance

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2015 European Games

Women's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Jessica Blaszka	−48 kg	Bye	Tjapko (LAT) W 9–5	Matkowska (LAT) L 0–7	did not advance				9