Netherlands at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed at the 2022 World Games held in Birmingham, United States from 7 to 17 July 2022.^[2] Athletes representing the Netherlands won three gold medals, three silver medals and four bronze medals. The country finished in 21st place in the medal table.

Netherlands at the 2022 World Games
IOC code	NED
NOC	NOC*NSF
in Birmingham, United States 7 July 2022 (2022-07-07) – 17 July 2022 (2022-07-17)
Competitors	80 (36 men and 44 women) in 17 sports
Flag bearers	Denise Blankenzee Laurens Leeuwenhoek[1]
Medals Ranked 21st	Gold 3 Silver 3 Bronze 4 Total 10
World Games appearances
1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013 2017 2022

Medalists

Further information: 2022 World Games § Medal table, and List of 2022 World Games medal winners

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Noa Man	Parkour	Women's freestyle	11 July
Gold	Dick Jaspers	Cue sports	Men's three-cushion carom	17 July
Gold	Dutch korfball team Barbara Brouwer Esther Cordus Terrenc Griemink Anouk Haars Fleur Hoek Jelmer Jonker Laurens Leeuwenhoek Jessica Lokhorst Alwin Out Daan Preuninger Harjan Visscher Sanne van der Werff Olav van Wijngaarden Brett Zuijdwegt	Korfball	Mixed tournament	17 July
Silver	Jody Beckers Mike Schloesser	Archery	Mixed compound team	9 July
Silver	Noa Man	Parkour	Women's speedrun	10 July
Silver	Donny Donker	Ju-jitsu	Men's fighting 85 kg	15 July
Bronze	Boy Vogelzang	Ju-jitsu	Men's fighting 77 kg	15 July
Bronze	Ecco van der Veer	Ju-jitsu	Men's fighting 62 kg	16 July
Bronze	Mixed team	Tug of war	Mixed outdoor 580 kg	16 July
Bronze	Mixed team	Ju-jitsu	Mixed national team competition	16 July

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Acrobatic gymnastics	0	3	3
Archery	1	3	4
Bowling	0	2	2
Canoe marathon	1	0	0
Canoe polo	8	8	16
Cue sports	1	0	0
Dancesport	1	0	1
Duathlon	3	3	6
Ju-jitsu	3	3	6
Karate	1	1	2
Kickboxing	0	1	1
Korfball	7	7	14
Orienteering	0	1	1
Parkour	0	1	1
Powerlifting	0	2	2
Trampoline gymnastics	1	0	1
Tug of war	9	9	18
Total	36	44	80

Acrobatic gymnastics

Main article: Acrobatic gymnastics at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in acrobatic gymnastics.^[3]

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in archery.^[4]

Compound

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mike Schloesser	Men's compound	713	1	Bye	Kim (KOR) W 150–146	Verma (IND) L 149–149*	did not advance
Jody Beckers	Women's compound	691	14	Becerra (MEX) L 137–147	did not advance
Sanne de Laat		685	18	Van Kradenburg (RSA) W 143–142	López (COL) L 145–148	did not advance
Jody Beckers Mike Schloesser	Mixed compound	1044	6	Bye		United States (USA) W 158–154	Mexico (MEX) W 157–156	Colombia (COL) L 154–154*

Recurve

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Elimination 1	Elimination 2	Elimination 3	Elimination 4	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Score	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Gaby Schloesser	Women's recurve	331	71	Bye	Barankova (SVK) W 85–81	Nugent (USA) W 85–89	did not advance

Bowling

Main article: Bowling at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in bowling.^[5]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Denise Blankenzee	Women's singles	Hui Fen New (SIN) W 2–0	Franco (COL) W 2–0	Wegner (SWE) L 2–0	did not advance
Samantha Greiner		Ribguth (GER) L 2–0	did not advance
Denise Blankenzee Samantha Greiner	Women's doubles	n/a	France (FRA) W 2–1	Malaysia (MAS) L 0–2	did not advance

Canoe marathon

Main article: Canoe marathon at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in canoe marathon.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Joep van Bakel	Men's Short distance	15:19.17	7	did not advance
	Men's Standard distance	n/a		1:28:23.03	9

Canoe polo

Main article: Canoe polo at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in canoe polo.^[7]

Cue sports

Main article: Cue sports at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands won one gold medal in cue sports.^[8][9]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Dick Jaspers	Men's 3-cushion carom	Piedrabuena (USA) W 40–11	Blomdahl (SWE) W 40–20	Piedrabuena (USA) W 40–11	Merckx (BEL) W 40–16	Garcia (COL) W 40-18

Dancesport

Main article: Dancesport at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in dancesport (breaking).^[10]

Duathlon

Main article: Duathlon at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in duathlon.^[11]

Ju-jitsu

Main article: Ju-jitsu at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands won several medals in ju-jitsu.^[12][13]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Boy Vogelzang	Men's fighting 77 kg	Andersen (DEN) L 0 - 14	Kunsa (FRA) W 0* - 0	2	Attenberger (GER) L 6 - 9	Ochoa (MEX) W 14 - 0
Donny Donker	Men's fighting 85 kg	Milić (MNE) W 13 - 7	Trajković (SRB) L 4 - 11	2	Zmeev (GER) L 9 - 11	Wei (TPE) W 9 - 6
Genevieve Bogers	Women's fighting 57 kg	Singchalad (THA) W 11 - 2	Dahl (DEN) W 14 - 7	1	Koutoulaki (GRE) L 10 - 16	Dahl (DEN) L 6 - 6*	4

Karate

Main article: Karate at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in karate.^[14]

Men

Athlete	Event	Elimination round			Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Brian Timmermans	Men's kumite 84 kg	Ech-chaabi (MAR) L 2–3	Badawy (EGY) L 0–1	3	Did not advance		5

Women

Athlete	Event	Elimination round				Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lynn Snel	Women's kumite 61 kg	Ali (EGY) D 2–2	Klinepeter (USA) W 9–0	Serogina (UKR) L 1–3	3	Did not advance		5

Kickboxing

Main article: Kickboxing at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in kickboxing.^[15]

Athlete	Category	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final/Bronze medal bout
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Dajenka Meijer	Women's 70 kg	Ginski (USA) W 2–1	Filipová (SVK) L 1–2	Vanhakoski (FIN) L 0–3	4

Korfball

Main article: Korfball at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands won the gold medal in the korfball tournament.^[16]

Orienteering

Main article: Orienteering at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in orienteering.^[17]

Parkour

Main article: Parkour at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands won two medals in parkour.^[18][19][20]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Noa Man	Women's speedrun	30.60	2	29.24
	Women's freestyle	23.5	1	24.0

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in powerlifting.^[21]

Athlete	Event	Exercises			Total weight	Total points	Rank
		Squat	Bench press	Deadlift
Ielja Strik	Women's super heavyweight	230.0	—	200.0	—	—	DSQ
Ankie Timmers		237.5	185.0	220.0	642.5	101.65	4

Trampoline gymnastics

Main article: Trampoline gymnastics at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands competed in trampoline gymnastics.^[22]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Daniel Abrahams	Men's double mini-trampoline	23.200	10	did not advance

Tug of war

Main article: Tug of war at the 2022 World Games

Netherlands won one bronze medal in tug of war.^[12][23]

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