Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics

The Netherlands competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. It was the twenty-first time that the nation had competed. The Netherlands competed under the IOC country code NED (from the Dutch Nederland).

Medals

Bronze

• Wietse van Alten – archery, men's individual

Results by event

Archery

Where the Netherlands had sent only female archers to the 1996 Olympic competition, they sent only men to the 2000 event. Wietse van Alten won the bronze medal in the individual tournament.

Men's individual:

• Wietse van Alten – bronze medal match, bronze medal (5–1)
• Fred van Zutphen – round of 16, 16th place (2–1)
• Henk Vogels – round of 64, 57th place (0–1)

Men's team:

• Van Alten, van Zutphen, and Vogels – round of 16, 9th place (0–1)

Baseball

In their second appearance in Olympic baseball, the Netherlands repeated their fifth-place finish. They scored victories over Australia and Italy to begin (game 1) and end (game 7) the preliminary round, but suffered four defeats in between (games 2, 3, 5, and 6). In game 4, however, the Dutch team served Cuba its first defeat in the history of Olympic baseball, breaking a 21-game winning streak (in its third Olympiad) by the Cubans.

Men's:

• Netherlands – 5th place (3–4)

Triathlon

At the inaugural Olympic triathlon competition, the Netherlands was represented by three men and three women. The nation's best result came from Wieke Hoogzaad at twenty-fifth place in the women's competition, while Dennis Looze was the last finisher in the men's race.

Women's:

• Wieke Hoogzaad – 2:06:45.48 (25th place)
• Silvia Pepels – 2:07:05.01 (26th place)
• Ingrid van Lubek – 2:09:29.00 (33rd place)

Men's:

• Eric van der Linden – 1:54:32.04 (42nd place)
• Rob Barel – 1:55:36.69 (43rd place)
• Dennis Looze – 2:00:23.80 (48th place)