Cornelis Cees Vervoorn (born 11 April 1960) is a retired swimmer from the Netherlands. He competed at the 1976 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics in seven events; in 1980 he finished fourth sixth and seventh in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly and 4100 m medley relay respectively. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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