Netherlands men's national volleyball team

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Netherlands
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Federation   Nederlandse Volleybal Bond
Website www.volleybal.nl (Dutch)
Confederation   CEV
FIVB ranking 29 (as of 2008-01-05)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold 1996 Atlanta Team
Silver 1992 Barcelona Team
World Championship
Silver 1994 Greece Team
European Championship
Gold 1997 Eindhoven Team
Silver 1993 Turku Team
Silver 1995 Athens Team
Bronze 1989 Stockholm Team
Bronze 1991 Berlin Team
World League
Gold 1996 Rotterdam Team
Silver 1990 Osaka Team
Bronze 1998 Milan Team
World Cup
Silver 1995 Japan Team

The Netherlands men's national volleyball team is the national team of the Netherlands.

In the mid-1980s, the Dutch Volleyball Federation systematically started to build their national team, to catch up with the world’s top. In the first year of the World League in 1990 the team won the second place straightaway. The idea was successful: Dutch national players got the chance to change from the up to then unimportant own first league to the popular Serie A in Italy, earned top salaries and become worldwide volleyball stars. Names like Peter Blangé, Martin van der Horst and Bas van de Goor received international meaning, which was underlined by the 1996 Olympic title in Atlanta, Georgia and the winning of the 1997 European Championship in their own country.

Contents

[edit] Results

[edit] Olympic Games

[edit] World Cup

  • 1995 — 2nd place

[edit] World League

  • 1990 — 2nd place
  • 1991 — 2nd place
  • 1992 — 4th place
  • 1993 — 5th place
  • 1994 — 5th place
  • 1995 — 12th place
  • 1996 — 1st place
  • 1997 — 4th place
  • 1998 — 3rd place
  • 1999 — 10th place
  • 2000 — 5th place
  • 2001 — 7th place
  • 2002 — 7th place
  • 2003 — 10th place
  • 2004 — did not compete
  • 2005 — did not compete
  • 2006 — did not compete
  • 2007 — did not compete

[edit] World Grand Champions Cup

  • 1993 — did not compete
  • 1997 — 2nd place
  • 2001 — did not compete
  • 2005 — did not compete

[edit] European Championship

  • Head Coach: Toon Gerbrands.