he wasn’t focus on sports and also smoked from the age of 13 until 22. he started training seriously when he was 24 years old. a few years later, when he broke up with his girlfriend in 2018 he started increasing his training sessions and ran 10 weeks in a row 100 kilometers per week. half a year later he finished seventh at the dutch national marathon championship. later he finished second in the . in december 2020 he set a time at the wien marathon of 2:11.07 reaching the dutch time limit for the 2020 summer olympics.