{"id":5815,"date":"2025-08-13T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/personen\/jan-van-berkel\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:56:27","slug":"jan-van-berkel","status":"publish","type":"soswi_persons","link":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/people\/jan-van-berkel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan van Berkel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-05a2a08a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jan van Berkel \u2013 successful Swiss triathlete and four-time winner of the Swiss Ironman \u2013 has been a dedicated ambassador for our foundation since the 50th anniversary of Special Olympics. During the Special Olympics Run, which took place in Winterthur as part of the anniversary celebrations, Jan ran at the forefront with the Special Olympics athletes. Whenever his professional sports calendar allows, the triathlete visits the athletes in training or stops by an event.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sport should be accessible to everyone. With the Special Olympics Run, we were able to show that people of different abilities can share the same passion together in the same place. Sport makes people equal.  <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220619_special_olympics_switzerland_ironman2022-2184_web-scaled-e1755154731929-1024x718.jpg\" alt=\"Two runners in a competition.\" class=\"wp-image-3534\" style=\"border-radius:20px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220619_special_olympics_switzerland_ironman2022-2184_web-scaled-e1755154731929-1024x718.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220619_special_olympics_switzerland_ironman2022-2184_web-scaled-e1755154731929-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220619_special_olympics_switzerland_ironman2022-2184_web-scaled-e1755154731929-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220619_special_olympics_switzerland_ironman2022-2184_web-scaled-e1755154731929-1536x1077.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220619_special_olympics_switzerland_ironman2022-2184_web-scaled-e1755154731929.jpg 1668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4914,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"Jan van Berkel: Ambassador for Special Olympics","_seopress_titles_desc":"Learn how Ironman champion Jan van Berkel spreads the message of inclusion in sports with the Special Olympics athletes.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"inline_featured_image":false},"soswi_persons_areas":[105],"class_list":["post-5815","soswi_persons","type-soswi_persons","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","soswi_persons_areas-ambassador"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/soswi_persons\/5815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/soswi_persons"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/soswi_persons"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"soswi_persons_areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialolympics.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/soswi_persons_areas?post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}