Mark van der Zijden, Dutch swimmer

Mark Richard van der Zijden is a Dutch freestyle and medley swimmer, who swam in the qualifying heats of the bronze winning 4×200 m freestyle relay team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Four years earlier, when Atlanta, Georgia hosted the Games, Van der Zijden became seventh in the same event.

October 22 is the 295th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 70 days remain until the end of the year.