Editing Sport in the Netherlands (section)

===Cycling===

{{See also|Netherlands at the UCI Road World Championships|Netherlands at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships}}

[[File:Marianne Vos Hoogerheide.jpg|thumb|[[Marianne Vos]], one of the most successful female cyclists of all-time]]
The [[Koninklijke Nederlandsche Wielren Unie|Royal Dutch Cycling Union]] was instituted on 26 January 1928. Two Dutch road racing cyclists have won the [[Tour de France]]: [[Jan Janssen (cyclist)|Jan Janssen]] and [[Joop Zoetemelk]]. In 2017, [[Tom Dumoulin]] won the [[2017 Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]], becoming the first Dutchman to win the race and the first Dutch [[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tour]] winner since Zoetemelk's Tour win in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eurosport.com/cycling/giro-d-italia/2017/tom-dumoulin-wins-giro-ditalia-following-time-trial-masterclass_sto6185809/story.shtml |title=Tom Dumoulin wins Giro d'Italia following time-trial masterclass |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=28 May 2017 |website=[[Eurosport]]|access-date=28 May 2017 }}</ref> Eight Dutchmen have been World Champion on the road ([[Theo Middelkamp]] (1947), [[Jan Janssen]] (1964), [[Harm Ottenbros]] (1969), [[Hennie Kuiper]] (1975), [[Gerrie Knetemann]] (1978), [[Jan Raas]] (1979), [[Joop Zoetemelk]] (1985) and [[Mathieu van der Poel]] (2023)), but only one Dutchman has won the time trial World Championship [[Tom Dumoulin]] (2017). Eight women have been road race World Champions ([[Keetie van Oosten-Hage]] (1968, 1976), [[Tineke Fopma]] (1975), [[Petra de Bruijn]] (1979), [[Leontien van Moorsel]] (1991, 1993), [[Marianne Vos]] (2006, 2012, 2013), [[Chantal Blaak]] (2017), [[Anna van der Breggen]] (2018, 2020) and [[Annemiek van Vleuten]] (2019, 2022)) and four have been World Champions in the time trial ([[Leontien van Moorsel]] (1998, 1999), [[Ellen van Dijk]] (2013, 2021, 2022), [[Annemiek van Vleuten]] (2017, 2018) and [[Anna van der Breggen]] (2020)). At the Olympic Games the Netherlands has won 23 gold medals in cycling (ten in road cycling, 11 in track cycling and one each in mountain biking and BMX). Only three countries have won more gold cycling medals at the Olympics. [[Erik Dekker]] won the 2001 Cycling World Cup. [[Mathieu van der Poel]] is a three-time world champion in [[cyclo-cross]] and Dutch women have won more medals than any other country at the [[UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships – Women's elite race|cyclo-cross World championships]].