Mike Willem Frank van de Goor (born May 14, 1973 in Oss

Oss

Oss is a municipality and a city in the southern Netherlands, in the province of Noord Brabant.- Population centres :-Transportation:* Railway stations: Oss, Oss West, Ravenstein- The city of Oss :...

, Noord-Brabant) is a volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 player

Player (game)

A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games....

 from the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996

Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics featured beach volleyball for the first time as the official Olympic sport.-Medal table:-Medal summary:-External links:*...

. As a reserve-player he won the gold medal at his Olympic debut, alongside his older brother and two-time Olympian Bas

Bas van de Goor

Sebastiaan Jacques Henri van de Goor is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996....

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After having finished in fifth place in Sydney, Australia Van de Goor ended up in ninth place with the Dutch Men's National Team four years later in Athens, Greece.