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Sports in the Netherlands

Made By Stef Wassink

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General information

  • About 51,5 % of the Dutch population sports Weekly
  • Biggest sports:
  • Fitness ( 20% of population)
  • Football
  • Tennis
  • Fishing
  • Golf
  • Gymnastics
  • Hockey (field hockey)
  • Horse riding
  • Swimming
  • Athletics
  • Volleyball

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Olympic Games

  • Netherlands is quite successful on the Olympic games.
  • Summer Games: 95 times Gold, 104 times Silver and 122 times bronze.
  • Last edition most successful for #teamNL : 10x Gold, 12x Silver and 14x Bronze
  • Winter games: 53x Gold, 49x Silver and 45x Bronze
  • Most successful sports:
  • Summer: 1 Rowing, 2 Athletics, 3 Field hockey
  • Winter: 1 Ice skating (by a long shot) 2 Short track 3 bobsled

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Main sport: Football

  • First game in 1865
  • National/ biggest sport
  • KNVB -> Dutch football association
  • National men and women teams
  • Men:2nd Place WC: 1974, 1978 and 2010 European cup winners: 1988
  • Women: 2nd place WC: 2019 European cup winners: 2017

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Football Part 2

  • Eredivisie: Some famous clubs: Ajax, PSV, Feyenoord.
  • Multiple champions league wins/ Europa league .
  • Current club in Europe : Champions league: PSV and Feyenoord
  • Europa League: Ajax
  • Conference league: AZ ( Same Group as Legia )
  • Current Champion: Feyenoord
  • Also Women Eredivie.
  • Amateur Level: 1.2 Million players, 2.382 clubs.
  • But declining due to money problems.

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Some famous Dutch football players.

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Tennis

  • Mainly amateur level
  • But some professional tennisers as well.

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Ice Skating

  • The Dutch people love to ice skate in the winter
  • If it is cold enough
  • On small bodies of water: Lakes, ponds etc
  • Ice skating rings
  • Elfstedentocht (200KM)
  • Really good on Olympic games and world cups
  • Famous ice skaters:

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Cycling

  • Cycling is life.
  • Every dutch person has at least one bike
  • More bikes than people
  • Not as a sport but more as transport -> School, Work, supermarket etc.
  • Normal ‘Grandma’ bikes
  • Now electric bikes
  • 20 KM per day
  • Nk tegen de wind fietsen
  • Also Professional

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NK tegendewindfietsen

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Formula 1

  • One of the most watched sports
  • Super Max ( Max Verstappen
  • GP of Zandvoort

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Last but not least: Korf ball

  • Looks like basket ball
  • Dutch sport
  • Since 1902
  • 8 Players-> 4 male, 4 female.
  • A bit unfair: But the Dutch are always champions.
  • Poland is Part of the world league.

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