TeamNL kicks ass in Olympic speed skating

Did you know that TeamNL kicks serious ass in speed skating at the Olympics?

During the last Winter Olympics in Sochi the Netherlands won 24 medals in total: 23 in long-track speed skating and one in short-track speed skating. These were the most successful Winter Olympics for the Dutch ever.

Team NL at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia

7-23 February 2014

• 41 Dutch athletes participated in long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, bobsleigh and snowboarding.

• TeamNL won 24 medals: 8x gold, 7x silver and 9x bronze. This is a Dutch record for the Winter Olympics. The previous record stood at 11 medals  (1998 Nagano, Japan).

• Out of the 36 Olympic medals up for grabs for long-track speed skaters, the Dutch won no less than 23 medals.

• The Netherlands is the first country to achieve four clean sweeps at the same Winter Olympics. At the events for men’s 500m, men’s 5,000m, men’s 10,000m and in the women’s 1,500m the podiums turned all orange.

• Speed skater Jorien ter Mors competed in both short-track and long-track speed skating. She is the first Dutch athlete to compete in two different disciplines.

Dutch skating medalists at the Winter Olympics 2014

Gold 8 medals
Women’s team pursuit: Ireen Wüst, Jorien ter Mors, Marrit Leenstra and Lotte van Beek
Men’s team pursuit: Sven Kramer, Jan Blokhuijsen and Koen Verweij
Jorrit Bergsma: 10,000m
Jorien ter Mors, 1,500m
Stefan Groothuis: 1,000m
Michel Mulder: 500m
Ireen Wüst: 3,000m
Sven Kramer: 5,000m

Silver 7 medals
Ireen Wüst: 5,000m
Sven Kramer: 10,000m
Ireen Wüst: 1,500m
Koen Verweij: 1,500m
Ireen Wüst: 1,000m
Jan Smeekens: 500m
Jan Blokhuijsen: 5,000m

Bronze 9 medals
Carien Kleibeuker: 5,000m
Bob de Jong: 10,000m
Lotte van Beek: 1,500m
Sjinkie Knegt: 1,000m
Margot Boer: 1,000m
Michel Mulder: 1,000m
Margot Boer: 500m
Ronald Mulder: 500m
Jorrit Bergsma: 5,000m