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Van Goor
Van Goor or Van de Goor is a Dutch-language surname. Notable people with the name include: * Bas van de Goor (born 1971), Dutch football player * Johan Wijnand van Goor (c. 1650 –1704), Dutch general in the Nine Years' War and the War of Spanish Succession * Hans van Goor (born 1970), retired Dutch long distance swimmer * Mike van de Goor (born 1973), retired volleyball player from the Netherlands See also * Goor Goor () is a city in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located about west of Enschede. Goor received city rights in 1263. Goor was a separate municipality until 2001, when it became part of Hof van Twente. Goor had a statue of Joan Derk v ... * Van Gorp {{surname, Van Goor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bas Van De Goor
Sebastiaan Jacques Henri "Bas" van de Goor (born 4 September 1971) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta. Van de Goor was elected twice as the most valuable player of the Olympics (1996 and 2000). He was a middle blocker. At van de Goor's Olympic debut, he won the gold medal, alongside his younger brother and three-time Olympian, Mike, by defeating arch rivals Italy (3–2) in the final. Four years later, he ended up in fifth place at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. While representing the Netherlands, van de Goor won a silver medal at the 1994 FIVB World Championship in Greece. He also won silver medals at the 1993 and 1995 European Championship, and a gold medal at the 1997 European Championship. Van de Goor's national volleyball coach Joop Alberda referred to him as the "Michael Jordan of volleyball". In 2018, van de Goor was inducted into the Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Wijnand Van Goor
Johan Wijnand van Goor (Linnich 1650 – Donauwörth, 2 July 1704) was a Dutch general in the Nine Years' War and the War of Spanish Succession. He was the last Master-general of Artillery of the Dutch States Army (the successor of Menno van Coehoorn in that function). He distinguished himself at the attempted passage of the Lines of Stollhofen (1703) and the Battle of Schellenberg where he died commanding the first assault. Life Little is known of Van Goor's personal life. He was the brother of Johan Herman van Goor, also a Dutch officer. He was twice married, first in 1684 to Johanna Elisabeth van Volbergen, and after she died in 1696, to Josina Philippina de Bette. Career At the time of his first marriage in 1684 he was a lieutenant-colonel of a Walloon regiment in the States Army, according to the information in the marriage register of Grave. At the beginning of the Nine Years' War he was appointed Quarter-Master General of Waldeck's field army, still a lieutenant-colonel. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Van Goor
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 DSB Bank (''DSB: Dirk Scheringa Beheer'') was a Dutch bank and insurer that failed in 2009. Its loans were managed under ''Quion'' from June 2013 until June 2016 when ''Finqus'' began operating as the former DSB Bank. In 2018 ''Finqus BV'' took o ..., where he has been employed since 1994. Since early 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Van De Goor
Mike Willem Frank van de Goor (born 14 May 1973) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. As a reserve player, he won the gold medal at his Olympic debut, alongside his older brother and two-time Olympian Bas. Four years later, van de Goor finished in fifth place with the Dutch national team at the Olympics in Sydney. In 2004, he finished in ninth place at the Olympics in Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe .... References External links Mike van de Goor at Olympics.comOlympedia profile: Mike van de GoorVolleybox profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Goor, Mike van de 1973 births Living people Dutch men's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goor
Goor () is a city in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is located about west of Enschede. Goor received city rights in 1263. Goor was a separate municipality until 2001, when it became part of Hof van Twente. Goor had a statue of Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pol, but it was destroyed in 1787 by royalist Orangists in the defeat of the republican movement. Jewish community While records of individual Jews in Goor date back to the 14th century, the first permanent records of a Jewish community date to the 1600s when residence permits were issued to Jews. The ' ('Jewish cemetery') of Goor on the Borghoek dates to 1720. The Jewish population expanded rapidly in the second half of the 18th century. In 1748, Goor had 13 Jewish residents; that number increased to 238 Jews by 1809. In 1821, the Jews of Goor joined with Jews living in the neighboring towns of Diepenheim and Markelo to build the ''Ringsynagoge'' ('regional synagogue'). The Jewish community thrived throughout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |