This remained the country's record until it won 8 medals on 28 July 2021 during the 2020 Summer Olympics.

After a coin toss the Netherlands were declared winners and were handed the trophy which had been on offer (by the NVB), but gave it to Chile to take home as a 'memento' of the Netherlands, the Olympic Games and their Dutch football friends.

Five of the Olympics' first gold medal team were Jewish women: Estella Agsteribbe, Anna Dresden-Polak, Elka de Levie, Helena Nordheim, and Jud Simons.

Of the five, only Levie survived the Holocaust; the rest were murdered in gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor[4] The following is the Netherlands roster in the men's field hockey tournament of the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Two Dutch teams gave a korfball demonstration, with a match on 6 August in the Olympisch Stadion.