Netherlands at the 1908 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	NED
Nocname:	Dutch Olympic Committee* Dutch Sports Federation
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1908
Flagcaption:	Flag of the Netherlands
Website:
Location:	London
Competitors:	113
Sports:	11
Flagbearer:	Jan de Boer
Rank:	17
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1900
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
		align=center colspan=2	Football
		Rowing	Men's coxless four

Results by event

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Athlete	Heats	Semifinals	Final

	Heats		Unknown 3rd, heat 1	Did not advance
		Unknown 3rd, heat 9
		Unknown 4th, heat 3
		Unknown 4-5, heat 4

	Heats	Victor Henny	Unknown 2nd, heat 1	Did not advance
		Unknown 3rd, heat 2
Ernestus Greven		Unknown 3rd, heat 6
Jacobus Hoogveld		Unknown 3rd, heat 15
Evert Koops		Unknown 4th, heat 3
		Unknown 4th, heat 12

	Heats	Cornelis den Held	Unknown 2nd, heat 12	Did not advance
Jacobus Hoogveld		Unknown 2nd, heat 16
		Unknown 3rd, heat 15
Victor Henny		Unknown 4th, heat 7
Henk van der Wal		Unknown 4th, heat 14

	Semi- finalist		None held	Unknown 4th, semifinal 6	Did not advance
Henk van der Wal		Unknown 6th, semifinal 1
Bram Evers		Unknown 6th, semifinal 7

	Semi- finalist	Arie Vosbergen	None held	Unknown 3rd, semifinal 6	Did not advance
	Semi- finalist	Unknown 9th, semifinal 1

	Semi- finalist	Evert Koops	Walkover 1st, heat 1	Did not finish —, semifinal 1	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

	Semi- finalist	Evert Koops Jacobus Hoogveld Victor Henny Bram Evers	bgcolor=lightgray	None held	Unknown 2nd, semifinal 2	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance
	—	Ary Vosbergen	None held	17:15.8 7 points, team=X	Did not advance
		17:46.4 8 points, team=X
		Did not finish No score, team=X

	—	Willem Wakker	None held	Did not finish —, semifinal 2	Did not advance
Wilhelmus Braams		Did not finish —, semifinal 3
Jacques Keyser		Did not finish —, semifinal 4
Arie Vosbergen		Did not finish —, semifinal 5

	20th	Willem Wakker	None held	3:28:49.0
—	Wilhelmus Braams	Did not finish
		Did not finish
	Arie Vosbergen	Did not finish
		Did not start

	16th		None held	17:37.8 7th, semifinal 1	Did not advance
	16th	17:37.8 7th, semifinal 3
18th		17:57.6 4th, semifinal 2
20th		18:44.6 6th, semifinal 2

	14th	Petrus Ruimers	None held	1:27:38.8	Did not advance
—	Jo Goetzee	Did not finish —, semifinal 1
		Did not finish —, semifinal 1
	Willem Winkelman	Did not finish —, semifinal 1
	Johan Huijgen	Did not finish —, semifinal 2

Event	Place	Athlete	Height/ Distance

	21-32	Bram Evers	Unknown
Jacobus Hoogveld	21-32	Unknown

	19th		1.65 metres

	14th		2.89 metres
15th	Bram Evers	2.82 metres

	8-25	Bram Evers	Unknown
Jacobus Hoogveld		Unknown
Evert Koops		Unknown

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Cyclist	Heats	Semifinals	Final

	Semi- finalist		58.2 seconds 1st, heat 7	Unknown 2nd, semifinal 1	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance
Heats		Unknown 2nd, heat 1	Did not advance
		Unknown 2nd, heat 13
		Unknown 3rd, heat 3
		Unknown 4th, heat 11

	6th	Johannes van Spengen	None held	8:39.8 1st, semifinal 1	Unknown
7th	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	8:42.8 1st, semifinal 4	Unknown
Semi- finalist	Antonie Gerrits	Unknown 3rd, semifinal 2	Did not advance
	Dorus Nijland	Unknown 3rd, semifinal 6
	Georgius Damen	Unknown 4-9, semifinal 5

	Semi- finalist	Georgius Damen	None held	Unknown 5th, semifinal 1	Did not advance
Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein		Unknown 5th, semifinal 2
Dorus Nijland		Unknown 6-7, semifinal 3
Johannes van Spengen		Unknown 6-7, semifinal 4

	Semi- finalist	Georgius Damen	None held	Unknown 7-14, semifinal 1	Did not advance
Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	Semi- finalist	Unknown 7-14, semifinal 1
—	Dorus Nijland	Did not finish —, semifinal 2

	Heats	Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein	Unknown 2nd, heat 1	did not advance
Dorus Nijland		Unknown 2nd, heat 5
Antonie Gerrits		Unknown 2nd, heat 14
—	Johannes van Spengen	Time limit exceeded —, heat 6

	4th	Gerard Bosch van Drakestein Antonie Gerrits Dorus Nijland Johannes van Spengen	Walkover 1st, heat 3	2:44.0 2nd, semifinal 2	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Fencer	First round	Second round	Semi- final	Final

	5th		5-1 (1st in H)	2-2 (2nd in 7)	4-3 (2nd in 1)	2-5
Second round		4-1 (1st in J)	2-2 (3rd in 1)	Did not advance
First round		4-4 (4th in B)	Did not advance
		2-4 (4th in C)
		3-2 (4th in K)
		2-6 (7th in D)
		3-6 (7th in E)
		1-6 (7th in G)

	7th	Jetze Doorman	3-2 (2nd in A)	2-2 (2nd in 7)	5-2 (1st in 2)	1-6
Second round		2-2 (2nd in D)	2-2 (3rd in 1)	Did not advance
	George van Rossem	4-1 (1st in L)	2-2 (3rd in 2)
	Willem van Blijenburgh	3-2 (3rd in I)	1-3 (3rd in 6)
	Alfred Labouchere	4-1 (1st in C)	1-3 (3rd in 6)
		2-1 (1st in E)	1-3 (4th in 3)
		4-1 (2nd in K)	Did not start
First round		2-3 (4th in G)	Did not advance
	Johan van Schreven	3-4 (4th in J)
	Maurits van Löben Sels	0-4 (5th in F)
		2-4 (5th in M)

Event	Place	Fencers	Play-in match	First round	Semi- finals	Final	Repechage	Silver medal match

	9th	Jetze Doorman Adrianus de Jong Alfred Labouchere George van Rossem	Lost to Great Britain 9-7 Out 9th place	Did not advance	Not relegated

	6th	Jetze Doorman Adrianus de Jong Jacob van Löben Sels George van Rossem	bgcolor=lightgray	Not held	Lost to Bohemia 9-8 Out 6th place	Did not advance	Not relegated

Football

See main article: article and Football at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

The Netherlands was represented by the Netherlands national football team.

Event	Place	Players	First round	Semifinals	Final	Bronze match

Men's football	3rd		Bye	Lost vs. Great Britain 4-0	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance	Won vs. Sweden 2-0

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Gymnast	Score

	49th	Michel Biet	187.5
60th	Gerardus Wesling	165
61st		160.5
62nd		159
63rd	Johannes Stikkelman	159
64th		158
66th		155.5
69th		153.5
71st	Cornelus Becker	152.5
72nd		150.5
74th		149.5
78th		151
83rd	Hendricus Thijsen	127
90th		118.5
93rd		116.5
95th		101
96th		96

Event	Place	Gymnast	Score

	7th	Cornelus Becker, Michel Biet, Jan de Boer, Reinier Blom, Jan Bolt, Emanuel Brouwer, Constantijn van Daalen, Johann Flemer, Johannes Göckel, Isidore Goudeket, Dirk Janssen, Jan Jacob Kieft, Salomon Konijn, Herman van Leeuwen, Abraham Mok, Abraham de Oliviera, Johannes Posthumus, Johan Schmitt, Jonas Slier, Johannes Stikkelman, Hendricus Thijsen, Gerardus Wesling	297

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Rowers	First round	Quarter- finals	Semi- finals	Final

	3rd		None held	Unknown 2nd, semifinal 2	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

Shooting

Event	Place	Shooter	Score

	22nd		768
	32nd		726

	7th		4130

	12th		447
	24th	Petrus ten Bruggen Cate	421
	36th		381
	40th	Gerard van den Bergh	343
	41st		337
	43rd	Antonie de Gee	226

	6th	Jacob van der Kop Gerard van den Bergh Jan Johannes de Blécourt Petrus ten Bruggen Cate	1632

	7th		53
	14th		48
	15th		47
		47
	22nd		29
	26th		21

	4th	Eduardus van Voorst tot Voorst Cornelis Viruly Franciscus van Voorst tot Voorst Rudolf van Pallandt Romain de Favauge John Wilson	Unknown

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Swimmer	Heats	Semifinals	Final

	Heats		1:13.2 2nd, heat 3	Did not advance
	Heats	Unknown 3-6, heat 1

	Heats		Unknown 4-5, heat 7	Did not advance

	Heats		27:24.4 3rd, heat 2	Did not advance
—		Did not finish —, heat 6

	Heats		1:36.0 2nd, heat 3	Did not advance
	Heats	Unknown 2nd, heat 7

Tennis

See main article: article and Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Name	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter- finals	Semi- finals	Final

	16th		Bye		Did not advance
26th			Did not advance

	7th	Christiaan van Lennep Roelof van Lennep	bgcolor=lightgray	None held	Bye		Did not advance

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
	0	2	.000
	0	1	.000

Total	0	3	.000

Water polo

See main article: article and Water polo at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Water poloists	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final

Men's water polo	4th		Lost to Belgium 8-1	Did not advance

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Wrestler	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter- finals	Semi- finals	Final

	9th		Bye		Did not advance
17th			Did not advance

	5th					Did not advance
9th		Bye		Did not advance
9th		Bye	Lost to Andersen
17th			Did not advance

	5th		Bye			Did not advance
9th		Bye		Did not advance
9th			Lost to Larsson

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
	1	0	1.000
	0	5	.000
	1	0	1.000
	1	0	1.000
	1	2	.333
	0	2	.000

Total	4	9	.308

Sources

Book: Cook, Theodore Andrea . 1908 . The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report . British Olympic Association . London.
Web site: De Wael . Herman . 2001 . Top London 1908 Olympians . Herman's Full Olympians . 10 June 2006 . 12 July 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060712020925/http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/toplon08.html . dead .
Web site: Reyes . Macario . 2001 . IV. Olympiad London 1908 Football Tournament . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . 2 May 2006.