Filip Rigole

Filip Rigole is the founder and head coach of Swimsquad Belgium.

Filip has been head coach of the Aqua Protect 3Team in Kortrijk (formerly KTDC) since 2009.

Filip enjoyed his training with Swim Smooth which started in 2013 with the "3-day coaches education" in Loughborough, England and concluded in February 2016 with the 2-week internship in Perth, Australia with Paul Newsome, head coach of Swim Smooth and owner of the Swim Smooth Perth Squad.

After that, Filip was the only Swim Smooth Certified coach in Belgium for many years, until April 2024. 

After hundreds of hours as a poolside coach and around 1,000 individual video analyses, it was decided to stop renewing the Swim Smooth licence from April 2024 and stand on his own two feet, and SwimSquad Belgium was born!

In addition, Filip is also Trainer B Duathlon/Triathlon, TrainingPeaks certified coach, Ironman certified coach, RunningSmart certified coach and provides personal coaching to several athletes.

As an athlete, he first started with duathlon in which he achieved quite a few top-10 places, including 2 victories. Since 2000, he started triathlon and finished in several dozen races over various distances, from sprint to Ironman. An outlier was qualifying for the first Ironman70.3 World Championships in Clearwater, Florida.

In recent years, Filip has spent hundreds of hours on the poolside sharing his passion for swimming with athletes of all levels.