Netherlands
2024
Six medals, all stamped Hassan or Bol — a marathon gold 37 hours after the 10,000m, and an anchor leg that ran down three nations.
The Netherlands won six athletics medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics — two gold, one silver, three bronze — every one involving Sifan Hassan or Femke Bol.
This is the Dutch 2024 season told through Paris: Hassan's triple ending in an Olympic record marathon 37 hours after the 10,000m, Bol's anchor-leg gold and hurdles bronze, and the Netherlands Pro Elite 2024 kit.
Part of our Season Series — one year at a time. The full national story is in The History of Athletics in the Netherlands. Jump to the 2024 kit or browse the collection.
- Games
- Paris Olympics, athletics 1–11 August 2024
- Medals
- 6 — 2 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze
- The stamp
- Every medal involved Hassan or Bol
- The triple
- Hassan: 5000m bronze + 10,000m bronze + marathon gold, OR 2:22:55
- First since
- Zátopek 1952 — and first woman ever
- The anchor
- Bol, 4th to gold in the mixed relay — 3:07.43, European record
- The boom
- Rio 1 medal → Tokyo 8 → Paris 6
- Kit
- Netherlands Pro Elite 2024 (Asics, OLY issue) — 1 piece in the archive
The 2024 season in short
The Netherlands' 2024 season peaked at the Paris Olympics with six athletics medals — two gold, one silver, three bronze — and every one of them carried the stamp of Sifan Hassan or Femke Bol.
It sealed the Dutch boom in three data points: one athletics medal at Rio 2016, eight at Tokyo, six in Paris — with two golds at each of the last two Games. What in 2016 was one sprinter alone is now a programme.
Hassan: three finals, three medals
Sifan Hassan entered three events and medalled in all three.
Bronze in the 5000m final on 5 August (14:30.61). Bronze in the 10,000m on 9 August (30:44.12). And then, 37 hours later, the marathon: she outsprinted Tigst Assefa down the final straight to win in 2:22:55, an Olympic record, by three seconds — the narrowest women's Olympic marathon finish ever. An Ethiopian protest for obstruction was dismissed by the jury.
No athlete had medalled over 5000m, 10,000m and marathon at one Games since Emíl Zátopek won all three in 1952 — and no woman had ever done it. She was named World Athlete of the Year for 2024. The programme, race by race:
Hassan's three Paris medal races — data table
| Date | Event | Result | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Aug 2024 | 5000m final | 14:30.61 | Bronze |
| 9 Aug 2024 | 10,000m final | 30:44.12 | Bronze |
| 11 Aug 2024 | Marathon | 2:22:55 (Olympic record) | Gold |
Bol: the anchor leg and three more
The other gold was built on one lap.
In the mixed 4×400m final on 3 August, Femke Bol took the baton in fourth place and ran the field down — past Belgium, then Great Britain and the USA in the final 100m — to win in 3:07.43, a European record, two hundredths off the world record the Americans had set in the heats the day before.
Bol added 400m hurdles bronze (52.15) behind Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone's world record 50.37, and anchored the women's 4×400m to silver in a national record 3:19.50. Three medals for her, three for Hassan — six for the Netherlands.
Every Dutch medal in Paris
The six medals, all told:
- GoldMixed 4×400m relay — Bol anchor3:07.43 · ER
- GoldSifan Hassan — Marathon2:22:55 · OR
- SilverWomen's 4×400m relay — Relay3:19.50 · NR
- BronzeSifan Hassan — 5000m14:30.61
- BronzeSifan Hassan — 10,000m30:44.12
- BronzeFemke Bol — 400m hurdles52.15
Both stars kept rolling: Bol defended her world 400m hurdles title in Tokyo in 2025 (51.54) and announced a move to the 800m; Hassan won the 2025 Sydney Marathon in a course record 2:18:22. Her Olympic marathon record, Bol's European 400m hurdles record (50.95) and Bol's world indoor 400m record (49.17) all still stand.
The kit: Netherlands Pro Elite 2024
In our archive, the Dutch 2024 shelf holds the Netherlands Pro Elite 2024 programme — race-issued Asics team kit from the Olympic cycle, carrying the OLY designation. Asics has been the Dutch athletics federation's apparel partner since 2006.
What “Pro Elite” means here. Pro Elite pieces are issued to the athletes through the team channel: cut, weight and finishing specified for competition, in a run limited to what the squad receives. When a piece leaves that channel it is not replaced.
The 2024 Dutch rail is the smallest in the archive — a single piece, the Olympic-issue tee. What is here is shown below; for the rest of the Dutch range, the full collection is a click away.
Netherlands Pro Elite 2024
The piece we hold from the Netherlands Pro Elite 2024 cycle — race-issued Asics team kit with the OLY designation, from the Games of Hassan's triple. The smallest rail in the archive; the full Dutch collection is a click away.
How many athletics medals did the Netherlands win at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
Six — two gold, one silver, three bronze. Every medal involved Sifan Hassan (marathon gold, 5000m and 10,000m bronze) or Femke Bol (mixed relay gold, 400m hurdles bronze, women's relay silver).
What exactly was Sifan Hassan's triple in Paris?
She medalled in three events: 5000m bronze (14:30.61), 10,000m bronze (30:44.12) and marathon gold in an Olympic record 2:22:55 — run just 37 hours after the 10,000m. She is the first athlete since Emíl Zátopek in 1952, and the first woman ever, to do it.
Did the Dutch mixed relay set the world record?
No — that is the fine print. The USA set the world record (3:07.41) in the heats; the Netherlands won the final the next day in 3:07.43, a European record, two hundredths shy, with Femke Bol coming from fourth on the anchor leg.
Was Paris 2024 the Netherlands' best-ever athletics Games?
No — Tokyo 2020 brought eight athletics medals to Paris's six. The honest arc is the boom itself: one medal at Rio 2016, eight in Tokyo, six in Paris, with two golds at each of the last two Games.
What kit did the Netherlands wear in 2024?
The archive's Dutch 2024 shelf holds the Netherlands Pro Elite 2024 programme — race-issued Asics team kit with the OLY designation; Asics has partnered the Dutch athletics federation since 2006. The rail below shows what is in stock, and the full Dutch collection is linked from there.
Sources and References
- Wikipedia — Netherlands at the 2024 Summer Olympics — the six athletics medals
- World Athletics — Paris 2024 women's marathon report — Hassan's 2:22:55 OR, the 3-second sprint and the Zátopek framing
- Wikipedia — Paris 2024 mixed 4×400m relay — the Dutch 3:07.43 ER final and the US 3:07.41 WR in the heats
- Wikipedia — Paris 2024 women's 400m hurdles — McLaughlin-Levrone's 50.37 WR and Bol's bronze
- World Athletics — Hassan, World Athlete of the Year 2024 — the award and the triple in numbers
- Atletiekunie — partners (Asics since 2006) — the federation's apparel partner