The Netherlands competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 136 competitors, 82 men and 54 women, took part in 74 events in 15 sports.
Medalists
MedalNameSportEventDate Swimming Women's 100 metre breaststroke 2 August Swimming Women's 200 metre backstroke 4 August Sailing Windglider 8 August Netherlands women's national field hockey team Field hockey Women's tournament 10 August Athletics Women's discus throw 11 August Swimming Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay 31 July Rowing Women's double sculls 4 August Swimming Women's 100 metre freestyle 29 July Swimming Women's 200 metre freestyle 30 July Swimming Women's 100 metre backstroke 31 July Rowing Women's eight 4 August Boxing Men's heavyweight 9 August Canoeing Women's K-1 500 metres 10 August
Archery
Both of the Dutch archers from the 1980 competition returned in 1984. Both shot much higher scores than they had four years earlier, but the field was more competitive with the return of many nations that had boycotted, and both dropped out of the top eight.
Women's Individual Competition: Catherina Floris – 2422 points (→ 23rd place)
Men's Individual Competition: Martinus Reniers – 2486 points (→ 13th place)
Athletics
Men's 5,000 metres Stijn Jaspers Heat — 13:58.51 (→ did not advance)
Men's 3,000m Steeplechase Hans Koeleman
Men's Marathon Cor Vriend Final — 2:21:08 (→ 39th place)
Gerard Nijboer Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Cor Lambregts Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Men's Shot Put Erik de Bruin Qualifying Round — 19.28 m Final — 19.65 m (→ 8th place)
Women's 100 metres Els Vader Heat 1 — 11.43s Heat 2 — 11.56s (→ did not advance)
Women's 1,500 metres Elly van Hulst Heat — 4:10.69 Final — 4:11.58 (→ 12th place)
Women's Marathon Carla Beurskens Final — 2:37:51 (→ 22nd place)
Women's 400m Hurdles Olga Commandeur Heat — 56.67 Semifinal — 57.01 (→ did not advance)
Women's Discus Throw Ria Stalman Qualifying Heat — 58.28m Final — 65.36m (→ Gold Medal)
Women's Long Jump Tineke Hidding Qualification — did not start (→ did not advance, no ranking)
Women's High Jump Marjon Wijnsma Qualification — did not start (→ did not advance)
Women's Heptathlon Tineke Hidding Final Result — 6147 points (→ 7th place)
Marjon Wijnsma Final Result — 6015 points (→ 11th place)
Boxing
Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg) Pedro van Raamsdonk First Round – Defeated Augustus Oga (Kenya), on points (4:1) Second Round – Defeated Noe Cruciani (Italy), on points (5:0) Quarterfinals – Lost to Arístides González (Puerto Rico), on points (1:4)
Men's Heavyweight (– 91 kg) Arnold Vanderlyde → Bronze Medal First Round – Bye Second Round – Defeated Egerton Forster (SLE), on points (4:1) Quarterfinals – Defeated Georgios Stefanopoulos (GRE), on points (5:0) Semifinals – Lost to Willie DeWit (CAN), on points (3:2)
Canoeing
Men's K-2 (500 metres) Gert Jan Lebbink Ron Stevens
Men's K-2 (1,000 metres) Gert Jan Lebbink Ron Stevens
Women's K-1 (500 metres) Annemiek Derckx
Cycling
Sixteen cyclists, thirteen men and three women, represented the Netherlands in 1984.
Men's individual road race Jean-Paul van Poppel — +22:20 (→ 44th place) Hans Daams — did not finish (→ no ranking) Twan Poels — did not finish (→ no ranking) Nico Verhoeven — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Team time trial Jos Alberts Erik Breukink Maarten Ducrot Gert Jakobs
Individual pursuit Jelle Nijdam
Team pursuit Ralf Elshof Rik Moorman Jelle Nijdam Marco van der Hulst
Points race Derk van Egmond
Women's individual road race Leontine van der Lienden — +10:49 (→ 28th place) Hennie Top — +18:12 (→ 37th place) Thea van Rijnsoever — +18:12 (→ 39th place)
Diving
Women's 3m Springboard Daphne Jongejans — 437.40 points (→ 10th place)
Equestrianism
Mixed Dressage Individual Annemarie Sanders Tineke Bartels Jo RuttenJo Rutten (50 years, 81 days) was the oldest member of the Dutch Olympic Team at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Mixed Dressage Team Annemarie Sanders Tineke Bartels Jo Rutten
Field hockey
Men's team competition Preliminary round (group B) Defeated Canada (4-1) Defeated New Zealand (3-1) Drew with Pakistan (3-3) Lost to Great Britain (3-4) Defeated Kenya (3-0) Classification Matches 5th/8th place: Defeated Spain (0-0) after penalty strokes (10-4) 5th/6th place: Lost to India (2-5) → 6th place
Team roster Peter van Asbeck Ewout van Asbeck Lex Bos (gk) Roderik Bouwman Cees Jan Diepeveen Theo Doyer Maarten van Grimbergen Arno den Hartog Tom van 't Hek Pierre Hermans (gk) René Klaassen Hans Kruize Hidde Kruize Ties Kruize Eric Pierik Ron Steens Head coach: Wim van Heumen
Women's team competition Round robin Defeated New Zealand (2-1) Defeated United States (2-1) Defeated West Germany (6-2) Drew with Canada (2-2) Defeated Australia (2-0) → Gold Medal
Team roster Carina Benninga Fieke Boekhorst Marjolein Eijsvogel Det de Beus (gk) Irene Hendriks Elsemiek Hillen Sandra Le Poole Anneloes Nieuwenhuizen Martine Ohr Alette Pos (gk) Lisette Sevens Marieke van Doorn Aletta van Manen Sophie von Weiler Laurien Willemse Margriet Zegers Head coach: Gijs van Heumen
Judo
Men's Half-Middleweight Rob Henneveld Magnus Büchel
Men's Middleweight Ben Spijkers
Men's Heavyweight Willy Wilhelm
Rowing
Men's single sculls Herman van den Eerenbeemt (eliminated in the repechage)
Men's coxless pairs Sjoerd Hoekstra, Joost Adema (7th)
Men's quadruple sculls Steven van Groningen, Nico Rienks, Frans Göbel, Mark Emke (9th)
Women's single sculls Jos Compaan (8th)
Women's double sculls Greet Hellemans, Nicolette Hellemans
Women's coxless pairs Harriet van Ettekoven, Lynda Cornet (4th)
Women's coxed fours Marieke van Drogenbroek, Anne-Marie Quist, Catalien Neelissen, Wiljon Vaandrager, Marty Laurijsen (5th)
Women's eights Nicolette Hellemans, Lynda Cornet, Harriet van Ettekoven, Greet Hellemans, Marieke van Drogenbroek, Anne-Marie Quist, Catalien Neelissen, Wiljon Vaandrager, Marty Laurijsen
Sailing
Shooting
Swimming
Men's 100m Freestyle Hans Kroes Heat — 51.19 B-Final — 51.64 (→ 13th place)
Edsard Schlingemann Heat — 51.33 B-Final — 51.74 (→ 15th place)
Men's 200m Freestyle Frank Drost Heat — 1:51.32 Final — 1:51.62 (→ 6th place)
Hans Kroes Heat — 1:52.37 B-Final — 1:52.36 (→ 11th place)
Men's 100m Backstroke Hans Kroes Heat — 57.48 Final — 58.07 (→ 8th place)
Men's 100m Butterfly Cees Vervoorn Heat — 55.46 B-Final — 55.75 (→ 14th place)
Gérard de Kort Heat — 56.55 (→ did not advance, 24th place)
Men's 200m Butterfly Frank Drost Heat — 2:01.18 B-Final — 2:01.23 (→ 10th place)
Gérard de Kort Heat — 2:00.83 B-Final — 2:01.30 (→ 13th place)
Men's 200m Individual Medley Edsard Schlingemann Heat — 2:08.27 (→ did not advance, 18th place)
Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay Edsard Schlingemann, Peter Drost, Frank Drost, and Hans Kroes Heat — 3:27.60 (→ did not advance, 11th place)
Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay Hans Kroes, Peter Drost, Edsard Schlingemann, and Frank Drost Heat — 7:29.14 Final — 7:26.72 (→ 7th place)
Women's 100m Freestyle Annemarie Verstappen Heat — 56.11 Final — 56.08 (→ Bronze Medal)
Conny van Bentum Heat — 56.94 Final — 56.43 (→ 4th place)
Women's 200m Freestyle Annemarie Verstappen Heat — 2:01.61 Final — 1:59.69 (→ Bronze Medal)
Conny van Bentum Heat — 2:01.52 Final — 2:00.59 (→ 5th place)
Women's 400m Freestyle Jolande van der Meer Heat — 4:16.65 Final — 4:16.05 (→ 6th place)
Women's 800m Freestyle Jolande van der Meer Heat — 8:46.58 Final — 8:42.86 (→ 6th place)
Women's 100m Backstroke Jolanda de Rover Heat — 1:02.94 Final — 1:02.91 (→ Bronze Medal)
Brigitte van der LansBrigitte van der Lans (16 years, 4 days) was the youngest member of the Dutch Olympic Team at the 1984 Summer Olympics Heat — 1:04.57 Swimm-Off — 1:04.82 B-Final — 1:04.75 (→ 12th place)
Women's 200m Backstroke Jolanda de Rover Heat — 2:13.50 Final — 2:12.38 (→ Gold Medal)
Brigitte van der Lans Heat — 2:20.63 (→ did not advance, 17th place)
Women's 100m Breaststroke Petra Hillenius Heat — 1:14.09 (→ did not advance, 19th place)
Petra van Staveren Heat — 1:11.18 Final — 1:09.88 OR (→ Gold Medal)
Women's 200m Breaststroke Petra Hillenius Heat — 2:41.57 (→ did not advance, 18th place)
Petra van Staveren Heat — 2:37.20 Final — 2:36.32 in B final (→ 10th place)
Women's 100m Butterfly Conny van Bentum Heat — 1:02.01 Final — 1:01.94 (→ 7th place)
Annemarie Verstappen Heat — 1:01.50 Final — 1:01.56 (→ 4th place)
Women's 200m Butterfly Conny van Bentum Heat — 2:13.74 Swim-Off — 2:13.60 Final — 2:17.39 (→ 8th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay Annemarie Verstappen, Elles Voskes, Desi Reijers, and Wilma van Velsen Heat — 3:47.65 Annemarie Verstappen, Elles Voskes, Desi Reijers, and Conny van Bentum Final — 3:44.40 (→ Silver Medal)
Women's 4x100 Medley Relay Jolanda de Rover, Petra van Staveren, Annemarie Verstappen, and Desi Reijers Heat — DSQ (→ did not advance)
Synchronized swimming
Women's Solo Marijke Engelen Catrien Eijken Marjolein Philipsen
Women's Duet Marijke Engelen and Catrien Eijken
Water polo
Men's team competition Preliminary round (group A) Defeated Canada (10-9) Lost to Yugoslavia (5-9) Defeated China (10-8) Final Round (Group D) Lost to United States (7-8) Lost to Spain (4-8) Lost to Yugoslavia (5-9) Lost to Australia (7-8) Lost to West Germany (2-15) → 6th place
Team roster Johan Aantjes Stan van Belkum Wouly de Bie Ton Buunk Ed van Es Anton Heiden Nico Landeweerd Aad van Mil Ruud Misdorp Dick Nieuwenhuizen Eric Noordegraaf Roald van Noort Remco Pielstroom
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