Johan Kenkhuis - The Olympian

Johan Kenhuis, elite swimmer and Olympian has two Olympic medals (bronze in Sydney 2000 and silver in Athens 2004) and many championship medals under his belt and I’m thrilled he agreed to chat to me today on Coffee Matters.

Johan was born and raised in the country side (Twente in North Holland) He grew up working in a traditional butcher shop owned by his parents as a teenager. As the youngest of 5 children, born into a family of swimmers, he had to join the swimming club for at least one year after getting his swimming diploma and then decide if we wanted to continue. His Father and uncle were waterpolo players, in fact the whole family were swimmers and waterpolo players. He tried waterpolo but wasn’t good at the game, but was a really fast swimmer. At age 15 he decided to pursue swimming seriously. Not because he dreamt of going to the Olympics, but because he wanted to be really good at something.