Editing Sport in the Netherlands (section)

===Ice skating===
[[File:Speed skating in the Netherlands.jpg|thumb|Ice skating is one of the most popular sports.]]
The {{Ill|Royal Dutch Speed Skating Association|nl|Koninklijke Nederlandsche Schaatsenrijders Bond}} (KNSB) was formed on 17 September 1882.<ref>[http://www.knsb.nl/content/algemeen/downloads/re1statuten.pdf {{in lang|nl}} knsb.nl PDF file] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410084802/http://www.knsb.nl/content/algemeen/downloads/re1statuten.pdf |date=2008-04-10 }}</ref> With 161,673 members they are the seventh largest sports federation (in 2005).<ref name="sport"/>

====Speed skating====
The first official known speed skating competition ever for women was held in [[Leeuwarden]] from 1 to 2 February 1805 and was won by [[Trijntje Pieters Westra]].<ref name=knaw>{{Cite web|url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/TrijntjePieters|title=Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland|date=September 17, 2019|website=resources.huygens.knaw.nl}}</ref><ref name=speedskatingnews>{{Cite web|url=https://www.speedskatingnews.info/en/data/skater/trijntje-pieters-westra/|title=Competition results, statistics and records; SpeedSkatingNews|website=www.speedskatingnews.info|access-date=3 April 2020}} 1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis</ref>

After a successful period around 1900, with [[Jaap Eden]] and [[Coen de Koning]] as World Champions, Dutch speed skating successes became numerous in the 1960s. Champions [[Kees Verkerk]] and [[Ard Schenk]] were immensely popular, causing a real speed skating hype in the country. Successes continue up to today, with the likes of [[Yvonne van Gennip]] (3 Olympic gold medals in 1988), [[Rintje Ritsma]] (4-time World
Allround Champion), [[Jochem Uytdehaage]] (2 Olympic gold medals in 2002), [[Marianne Timmer]] (3 Olympic gold medals in 1998 and 2006), [[Ireen Wüst]] (5 Olympic golds in 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 6 [[World Allround Speed Skating Championships]]) and [[Sven Kramer]] (4 Olympic gold medals in 2010, 2014, 2018 and 9 World Allround Championships). The Dutch speed skaters' performance at the [[2014 Winter Olympics]], where they won 8 out of 12 events, 23 out of 36 medals, including 4 clean sweeps, is the most dominant performance in a single sport in Olympic history. [[Thialf]] Stadium in [[Heerenveen]] was the second indoor 400m speed skating oval in the world, the first to host an international championship and remains a world-class facility today.
Dutch speed skaters have won 77 world single distance championships (since 1996).

====Figure skating====
[[Sjoukje Dijkstra]] is the most successful Dutch [[figure skater]], winning the [[World Figure Skating Championships|World Championships]] three times, the [[European Figure Skating Championships|European Championships]] five times and two Olympic medals. Her Olympic gold in 1964 in [[Innsbruck]] was the first time an athlete from the Netherlands won gold at an Olympic Winter Games. [[Dianne de Leeuw]] won the silver medal in figure skating at the [[1976 Winter Olympics]].