The Dutch in Sports - Hear the Names

Speed Skating

Jaap Eeden Kees Broekman Jan Pesman Peter Nottet hear		Carry Geijssen Ans Schut Kees Verkerk Ard Schenk hear		Atje Keulen-Deelstra Stien Kaiser Jan Bols hear		schaatsen
Piet Kleine Hans van Helden Annie Borckink Ria Visser hear		Lieuwe de Boer Hilbert van der Duim Yvonne van Gennip Jan Ykema hear		Leo Visser Gerard Kemkers Bart Veldkamp Falko Zandstra hear
Marianne Timmer Gianni Romme Ids Postma Gretha Smit hear		Jochem Uytdehaaghe Gerard van Velde Ireen Wüst Renate Groenewold hear		Erben Wennemars Sven Kramer Bob de Jong Carl Verheijen hear
Mark Tuitert Rintje Ritsma hear

The Dutch Team at The 2006 Turin Winter Olympics

Wikipedia Page where I found some of the names

2002 Olympic Speed Skating Records (Men)

The Dutch Team at The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

Speed Skating: Men Jan Bos 2 Jan Blokhuijsen Stefan Groothuis 2 Bob de Jong 2 Arjen van der Kieft Sven Kramer Simon Kuipers 2 Ronald Mulder 2 Jan Smeekens 2 Mark Tuitert		Speed Skating: Women Margot Boer 2 Annette Gerritsen 2 Renate Groenewold Thijsje Oenema 2 Laurine van Riessen Diane Valkenburg Jorien Voorhuis Elma de Vries 2 Ireen Wüst		Shorttrack: Women Annita van Doorn 2 Liesbeth Mau-Asam Jorien ter Mors 2 Maaike Vos Sanne van Kerkhof 2 Shorttrack: Men Sjinkie Knegt 2 Niels Kerstholt 2
Bobsled: Men Edwin van Calker 2 Arnold van Calker 2 Sybren Jansma Timothy Beck 2 Arno Klaassen 2		Bobsled: Women Esmé Kamphuis 2 Tine Veenstra Urta Rozenstruik		Snowboard: Nicolien Sauerbreij 2 Dolf van der Wal

Former champion and olympic medal winner Marianne Timmer unfortunately was injured in a December 2009 match.

the house - 2 - 3

As you may have guessed, Dutch huis means 'house.' Vancouver was named after Captain Cook's lieutenant George Vancouver, who was the first to put the area on a reliable map; the Vancouver family was English, but may originally have come from (van ) the Dutch city of Coevorden 2 - Van Coevorden 2

Marrit Leenstra 2 Wouter olde Heuvel 2 Bob de Vries 2

The Dutch Team at The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics

Speed Skating Women Lotte van Beek 2 Margot Boer 2 Antoinette de Jong 2 Carien Kleibeuker 2 3 Marrit Leenstra 2 Jorien ter Mors 2 3 Yvonne Nauta 2 Laurine van Riessen Annouk van der Weijden 2 Ireen Wüst

Speed Skating Men Jorrit Bergsma 2 Jan Blokhuijsen Stefan Groothuis 2 Bob de Jong 2 Sven Kramer Michel Mulder 2 Ronald Mulder 2 Jan Smeekens 2 Mark Tuitert Koen Verweij 2

Shorttrack Women Sanne van Kerkhof 2 Yara van Kerkhof 2 Jorien ter Mors 2 3 Lara van Ruijven 2 Rianne de Vries 2 Shorttrack Men Christiaan Bökkerink 2 Daan Breeuwsma 2 Niels Kerstholt 2 Sjinkie Knegt 2 Freek van der Wart

Bobsled Women Melissa Boekelman 2 Esmé Kamphuis 2 Judith Vis Bobsled Men Edwin van Calker 2 Yannick Greiner 2 Sybren Jansma Arno Klaassen Bror van der Zijde 2

Snowboard Women Bell Berghuis Michelle Dekker 2 Cheryl Maas Nicolien Sauerbreij 2 Snowboard Men Dimi de Jong 2 3 Dolf van der Wal 2

Carlijn Achtereekte Douwe de Vries 2 Erik-Jan Kooiman 2 3

Hein Otterspeer 2 Melissa Wijfje Arjan Stroetinga 2

Sanneke de Neeling 2 Irene Schouten 2 Antoinette de Jong 2

Jos de Vos

Carlijn Achtereekte 2 3 4	Suzanne Schulting 2	Kai Verbij 2 3
Lara van Ruijven	Selma Poutsma 2	Jutta Leerdam 2 3
Letitia de Jong 2
Daan Breeuwsma 2 3	Jasper Brunsmann 2 3	Sven Roes 2
Avalon Aardoom 2 3 4	Dylan Hoogerwerf 2 3	Itzhak de Laat 2 3
Marijn Wiersma 2	Thomas Krol 2	Patrick Roest 2

Little words like 'van' and 'de' in Dutch names are not capitalized after a first name or an initial.
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Figure Skating (1950s/70s)

De Elfstedentocht

(L) (Sn) (IJ) (Sl) (St) (Hi) (W) (Bo) (Ha) (F) (D) (Ba)

De Elfstedentocht 2 Leeuwarden Sneek 2 IJlst 2 hear - 2 Sloten 2 Stavoren Hindeloopen Workum hear Bolsward Harlingen Franeker Dokkum hear - 2 Bartlehiem 2 Tietjerkstradeel Friesland 2 Groningen "Stad" Overijssel (de) Afsluitdijk 2 hear winners Reinier Paping (1963) Evert van Benthem (1985, 1986) Henk Angenent (1997) hear

(Map by Marco Schuffelen, after the Bos Wereldatlas) De 'Elfstedentocht' 2 (Eleven-Cities-Tour: elf '11' - steden 2 'cities' - tocht 2 'tour') is a one-day, 200-kilometer (125 miles) skating endurance event on natural ice: only in (by Dutch standards) very cold winters. About 300 sportsmen and -women participate in a race, and there's a tour of about 16.000. The tour can still be grueling, but when the weather is nice, it's like a tough bike ride. De tocht der tochten 2 ['the tour of tours,' 'the mother of all tours'] the epic skating tour In the horrible weather of the 1963 event, race winner Reinier Paping clocked in at about eleven hours. Mr Paping is still a national hero. That year, the tour was stopped about halfway. In 1985, '86 and '97 conditions were better and the winners of the race made times below seven hours. About 70% of the tour riders made it to the finish before midnight. Bartlehiem 2 is a famous hamlet at a crossroads along the Elfstedentocht. The Elfstedentocht passes through the area of Tietjerkstradeel that might pose a pronunciation challenge. Some local people refer to the city of Groningen as 'Stad,' which means 'city.' (het) ijs 'ice' - (de) sneeuw 'snow' - (de) schaats 2 'skate' - schaatsen 'skates; to skate' - a similar verb klûnen (klunen) 'walking on skates over connections without ice' (De) rayonhoofden the district heads who considering the thickness of the ice decide if the event is on, with their assistants, (de) ijsmeesters 2 ('ice masters' - the ice specialists)

Komt er een Elfstedentocht? 2 3 Voorlopig nog niet. 2 Voorlopig nog geen Elfstedentocht. 2 Is het ijs dik genoeg? 2	Will there be an '11-Cities Tour'? Not yet and not soon, not in the immediate future, not for the moment There will not be an '11-Cities Tour' soon Is the ice thick enough?
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de Elfstedentocht 2

De Vierdaagse 2 is another Dutch 'mass' sports event. About 40.000 participants march 30, 40 or 50 kilometer a day (about 20 to 35 miles) on four consecutive days in mid-July in the Eastern city of Nijmegen

Bicycling

Annemiek van Vleuten

Robert Gesink 2

Wilco Kelderman

Bauke Mollema

Ellen van Dijk 2

Carolien van Herrikhuyzen

Swimming

Erica Terpstra Ada Kok Pieter van den Hoogenband Inge de Bruin hear

Geertje Wielema Wil den Ouden Anke Reynders hear

Femke Heemskerk 2 Sebastiaan Verschuren Hinkelien Schreuder 2

Miscellaneous

Jaap Eeden (skating & cycling!) Anton Geesink (judo) Ellen van Langen (running) hear - take 2

Peter Borren 2 (cricket) Ryan ten Doeschate 2 (cricket) Noël van 't End (judo)

Starcraft Players:

(Manuel) Schenkhuizen

(Kevin) Van der Kooi 2

Chess

Dutch Grand Masters
Max Euwe - world champion 1935-37		Jan-Hein Donner 2 Jan Timman 2		Wouter Spoelman Friso Nijboer 2

Soccer Nation

't Is weer bruin of gespikkeld 2 3 - twee ballen [It's brown or dotted again] Soccer time!

A Few Teams Ajax Feyenoord PSV hear

(Amsterdam) (Rotterdam) (Eindhoven) see map

Coen Moulijn 60s Feyenoord forward
Willy van der Kuijlen 2 3 70s PSV, absolute top scorer
The first half of the list below gives the names of the members of the Dutch national teams that reached the World Cup finals both in 1974 and 1978. Unfortunately, the World Cup went to West Germany in '74 and to Argentina in '78.
The second half of the list gives some famous later players, and the full team for the 2006 World Cup.

Soccer World Cup 2010 - The Dutch Team		(I no longer record all names that are not from the Dutch language)
Maarten Stekelenburg 2 Gregory van der Wiel 2 John Heitinga 2 Joris Mathijsen 2 Giovanni van Bronkhorst 2 Mark van Bommel 2	Dirk Kuyt 2 Nigel de Jong 2 Robin van Persie 2 Wesley Sneijder 2 3 Arjen Robben 2 Khalid Boulahrouz	André Ooijer 2 Demy de Zeeuw 2 Edson Braafheid 2 Michel Vorm 2 Eljero Elia Stijn Schaars 2	Ibrahim Affelay Ryan Babel 2 Klaas-Jan Huntelaar 2 Sander Boschker 2 Rafaël van der Vaart 2 Bert van Marwijk 2 (coach)

More Soccer Names
Louis van Gaal 2 (coach) (Georginio) Wijnaldum 2 Tommie Beugelsdijk 2 3 slow (Kevin) Strootman	Tim Krul Paul Verhaegh (Jordy) Clasie 2 3 (Daley) Blind	(Jeremain) Lens (Daryl) Janmaat 2 Jasper Cillesen 2 3 Stefan de Vrij 2 3

(Patrick) Van Aanholt 2 Jeroen Zoet 2 Joël Veltman 2 Ron Vlaar 2 3

Stef Nijland 2 Kees Kwakman 2 Lex Immers 2 3 Sven van Beek 2

(Davy) Klaassen 2

Matthijs de Ligt 2 3 4

Soccer names list from: FIFA.com and I also consulted the BBC World Cup Website
Other sources: Bert Melman and Johan Ruitenbeek; Pieter Poelstra corrected a mistake and provided additional names.

oranje 2 orange - (het) voetbal soccer, 'European football' - (de) voetbal soccer ball
(het) elftal [group of 11] team - (het) schot in eigen doel 'own goal'
(het) gras 2 'grass' - (de) grasmat 2 'grass cover' of a field - (de) lijn 'line'
(het) knollenveld 2 3 ('turnip field') - the opponents' home field, if it looks bad

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