With sailors Annemiek Bekkering and Annette Duetz bronze medals at 49erFX, the Dutch sports team in Tokyo now equals the total harvest five years ago in Rio de Janeiro. In the 2016 games, TeamNL took nineteen medals. The counter is also now 19 and there will be a medal from boxing star Noushka Fontaine, who is already sure of bronze in the category up to 75 kilograms. In the final days of gaming, it should become clear whether it’s likely to be gold or silver.
In Rio, the Netherlands won eight gold, seven silver, and four bronze medals. In Tokyo, the pick-up on the eleventh day of the Games consists of five golds, seven silvers and seven bronzes.
In the medal table, ranked on the basis of the number of gold medals achieved, the Netherlands takes 11th place. China has so far the most gold medals (29), and the United States leads the overall medal count (66 pieces).
With 25 medals, the 2000 Sydney Games is the most successful for the Netherlands, which won twelve golds at the time. After four years in Athens, TeamNL won 22 medals (four golds). After Beijing 2008, the sports team came home with sixteen medals (seven gold) and in London 2012 the orange took twenty medals (six gold).
