Hans van Goor

Hans van Goor
Personal information
Born1970 (age 5455)
Zwaag, North Holland, Netherlands
Sport
SportSwimming
Medal record
Representing  Netherlands
European Championships (LC)
1993 Sheffield25 km open water
1991 Athens5 km open water

Hans van Goor (born 1970) is a retired Dutch long distance swimmer who won a silver medal at the 1993 European Championships. He also swam the English Channel on 4 September 1995 in a time of 8 h and 02 mins, which stood as a European record until 2003. He is the coach and husband of fellow long-distance swimmer Edith van Dijk.

Van Goor studied econometrics and law at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is Chief Operating Officer at the sports-oriented DSB Bank, where he has been employed since 1994. Since early 2019 Hans van Goor took a position of CEO of the Dutch startup company, related to Discoperi Inc.