Hans van Goor

Hans van Goor with wife Edith van Dijk. Photo by Aad Groningen

Hans van Goor (born 1970 in Zwaag, North Holland) is a retired Dutch marathon swimmer and coach.

Open Water Swimming Career

He won a silver medal at the 1993 European Swimming Championships.
He swam across the English Channel on 4 September 1995 in 8 hours 2 minutes, which stood as a European record until 2003.
He is the coach and husband of fellow marathon swimmer Edith van Dijk, one of the world's greatest open water swimmers in history.
In 1991, he won the 22 km IJsselmeer Zwemmarathon in the Netherlands in 5 hours 31 minutes 38 seconds.
On 5 July 1992, he finished 3rd in the 36 km Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli in Italy in 6 hours 40 minutes 57 seconds at the age of 21.
On 25 July 1993, he finished 4th in the 40.2 km Traversee internationale du lac Memphremagog from Newport, Vermont, USA to Magog, Quebec, Canada in 10 hours 8 minutes 56 seconds at the age of 22.
On 1 August 1993, he finished 2nd in the 32 km Traversee internationale du lac St-Jean in Canada in 9 hours 18 minutes 32 seconds at the age of 22.
On 4 September 1995, he completed a crossing of the English Channel from England to France in 8 hours 2 minutes at the age of 24, winning the Fastest Solo Swim during the 1995 season by the Channel Swimming Association.

Van Goor studied econometrics and law at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

He was formerly the Chief Operating Officer at the sports-oriented DSB Bank, where he has been employed since 1994.