Editing Netherlands (section)

=== Sports ===
{{Main|Sport in the Netherlands}}

[[File:NED-DEN Euro 2012 (10).jpg|thumb|Dutch star football players [[Arjen Robben]] and [[Robin van Persie]] during a game with the [[Netherlands national football team|Netherlands]] against [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]] at [[Euro 2012]]]]

Approximately 4.5 million of the 16.8 million people in the Netherlands are registered in one of the 35,000 sports clubs in the country. About two-thirds of the population between 15 and 75 participate in sports weekly.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://s2.ned.univie.ac.at/NoN/landeskunde/nl/h11/index.htm |title=Sport in Nederland |access-date=21 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925042514/http://s2.ned.univie.ac.at/NoN/landeskunde/nl/h11/index.htm |archive-date=25 September 2008 |language=nl}}</ref> [[Association football|Football]] is the most popular team sport, followed by [[field hockey]] and volleyball. Tennis, gymnastics and golf are the three most widely engaged in individual sports.<ref name="sport">{{cite web |url=http://www.sport.nl/content/nieuwsartikelen/nocnsf/223198?channel=nocnsf |title=Ledental sportbonden opnieuw gestegen |date=24 July 2006 |website=sport.nl |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070812034648/http://www.sport.nl/content/nieuwsartikelen/nocnsf/223198?channel=nocnsf |archive-date=12 August 2007 |access-date=1 June 2016 |url-status=dead |language=nl}}</ref> Organisation of sports began at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. Federations for sports were established, rules were unified and sports clubs came into existence. A [[NOC*NSF|Dutch National Olympic Committee]] was established in 1912.

The [[Netherlands national football team|national football team]] was runner-up in the [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup]] of 1974, 1978, and 2010, and won the [[UEFA European Championship|European Championship]] of 1988. Of [[Sports Illustrated|SI]]'s 50 greatest footballers of all time, [[Johan Cruyff]] (#5), [[Marco van Basten]] (#19), [[Ruud Gullit]] (#25), and [[Johan Neeskens]] (#36) are Dutch.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The 50 Greatest Footballers of All Time|date=21 May 2019|url=https://www.si.com/soccer/2019/05/21/50-greatest-footballers-all-time|magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]}}</ref> The [[Netherlands women's national football team|women's national team]] was runner-up in [[2019 FIFA Women's World Cup|2019 World Cup]] and won the European Championship of 2017. The [[Netherlands women's national field hockey team|Netherlands women's field hockey team]] won 9 out of 15 [[Women's Hockey World Cup|World Cup]]s. The [[Netherlands national baseball team|Netherlands baseball team]] have won the [[European Baseball Championship|European championship]] 24 times out of 33 events.<!--updated to 2021--> The [[Netherlands women's national volleyball team|volleyball national women's team]] won the [[1995 Women's European Volleyball Championship|European Championship in 1995]] and the [[2007 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix|World Grand Prix in 2007]].

The Netherlands has won 266 medals at the [[Summer Olympic Games]] and 110 at the [[Winter Olympic Games]]. [[Joop Zoetemelk]] won the [[1979 Vuelta a Espana]], the [[1980 Tour de France]], and the 1985 UCI World Championship. [[Jan Janssen]] won the [[1968 Tour de France]], [[Tom Dumoulin]] the [[2017 Giro d'Italia]]. [[Max Verstappen]], the youngest [[Formula 1]] driver to make his debut and to win a race, was the [[2016 Spanish Grand Prix|first Dutchman to win a Grand Prix]] and a [[2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix|Formula One World Drivers Championship]]. Dutch [[K-1]] kickboxers have won the [[K-1 World Grand Prix]] 15 times out of 19 tournaments.