2012 Holland Heineken House

The front of the 2012 Holland Heinken House in Alexandra Palace

The 2012 Holland Heineken House was the Dutch meeting place for supporters, athletes and other followers during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, organized by Heineken and NOC*NSF. It was the 11th edition of the Holland Heineken House since 1982. The 2012 Holland Heineken House opened their doors at the day of the opening ceremony on 27 July 2012 and closed on the day of the closing ceremony, 12 August 2012. Due to the expected numbers of visitors, tickets had to be bought in advance online for 12.50 Euro.^[1] With about six thousand visitors per day, over hundred thousand visitors visited the Dutch national home during the Games.^[2]

The layout

Virtual tour

People are watching an Olympic event

Party in the big hall

The 2012 Holland Heineken House had various shops, restaurants, reception rooms for sponsors and athletes, media facilities and a NOC*NSF information desk. During the day visitors could watch Olympic events on big screens and play different sports. There was a big hall for medal celebrations and performances of different artists during the night.

Medal celebrations

Medal celebration of Lobke Berkhout and Lisa Westerhof

Dutch medalist together with their coaches were honoured on the day they won on medal or later when they had to participate in other events. Because Marianne Vos won her gold medal in the road cycling women's road race due to the team performance of the Dutch team, her teammates Ellen van Dijk, Annemiek van Vleuten, Loes Gunnewijk were honoured as well.

Date	Medal	Name(s)	Coach	Sport	Event	Ref
02015-08-01-00001 August	01 ! Gold	Vos, MarianneMarianne Vos Ellen van Dijk Annemiek van Vleuten Loes Gunnewijk	Johan Lammerts	Cycling	Women's road race	[3]
	03 ! Bronze	Bosch, EdithEdith Bosch	Chris de Korte	Judo	Women's 70 kg
02015-08-02-00002 August	03 ! Bronze	Achterberg, ChantalChantal Achterberg Claudia Belderbos Carline Bouw Sytske de Groot Annemiek de Haan Nienke Kingma Anne Schellekens (cox) Roline Repelaer van Driel Jacobine Veenhoven		Rowing	Women's eight	[4]
	03 ! Bronze	Grol, HenkHenk Grol	Maarten Arens	Judo	Men's 100 kg	[4]
02015-08-04-00004 August	01 ! Gold	Kromowidjojo, RanomiRanomi Kromowidjojo	Jacco Verhaeren	Swimming	Women's 100 m freestyle	[5]
	01 ! Gold				Women's 50 m freestyle
	02 ! Silver	Dekker, IngeInge Dekker Femke Heemskerk Ranomi Kromowidjojo Marleen Veldhuis Hinkelien Schreuder			Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay
	03 ! Bronze	Veldhuis, MarleenMarleen Veldhuis			Women's 50 m freestyle
02015-08-06-00006 August	02 ! Silver	Bouwmeester, MaritMarit Bouwmeester		Sailing	Women's Laser Radial class	[6]
	02 ! Silver	Houtzager, MarcMarc Houtzager Gerco Schröder Maikel van der Vleuten Jur Vrieling	Rob Ehrens	Equestrian	Team jumping	[7]
02015-08-07-00007 August	01 ! Gold	Zonderland, EpkeEpke Zonderland	Daniel Knibbeler	Gymnastics	Men's horizontal bar	[6]
	03 ! Bronze	Mulder, TeunTeun Mulder		Cycling	Men's keirin	[6]
02015-08-08-00008 August	01 ! Gold	van Rijsselberghe, DorianDorian van Rijsselberghe		Sailing	Men's sailboard	[8]
	02 ! Silver	Schröder, GercoGerco Schröder	Rob Ehrens	Equestrian	Individual jumping	[8]
02015-08-09-00009 August	02 ! Silver	Cornelissen, AdelindeAdelinde Cornelissen	Johan Hamminga	Equestrian	Individual dressage	[9]
	03 ! Bronze	Cornelissen, AdelindeAdelinde Cornelissen Edward Gal Anky van Grunsven			Team dressage
02015-08-10-000010 August	01 ! Gold	Netherlands women's national field hockey team Marilyn Agliotti   Kelly Jonker Naomi van As   Kim Lammers Merel de Blaeij   Caia van Maasakker Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel   Kitty van Male Margot van Geffen   Maartje Paumen Maartje Goderie   Sophie Polkamp Eva de Goede   Joyce Sombroek Ellen Hoog   Lidewij Welten	Max Caldas	Field hockey	Women's tournament	[10]
	03 ! Bronze	Smulders, LauraLaura Smulders		Cycling	Women's BMX	[11]
02015-08-11-000011 August	02 ! Silver	Netherlands men's national field hockey team Sander Baart   Teun de Nooijer Billy Bakker   Jaap Stockmann Marcel Balkestein   Valentin Verga Floris Evers   Klaas Vermeulen Rogier Hofman   Bob de Voogd Robert van der Horst   Mink van der Weerden Tim Jenniskens   Roderick Weusthof Wouter Jolie   Sander de Wijn Robbert Kempermann	Paul van Ass	Field hockey	Men's tournament	[12]
	03 ! Bronze	Berkhout, LobkeLobke Berkhout Lisa Westerhof	Jacco Koops	Sailing	Women's 470 class	[13]

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