It is typically held as a two- or three-day event in the Dutch summer, ranging from late June to early August.
The venue of the championships varies, though Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium has been a regular host.
Established in 1910 as a men-only competition, the programme expanded to include women's events in 1921.
[1] The current track and field programme features a total of 38 individual Dutch Championship athletics events, divided evenly between the sexes.
Later additions to the women's programme were triple jump (1991), pole vault and hammer throw (1995) and the steeplechase (2002) – the final addition bringing women to parity of events in track and field.