Guy Cohen

Guy Cohen was born in 1965 in Ein HaShofet

Cohen was born on February 19, 1965, and grew up on Kibbutz Ein HaShofet. As a young man he trained in competitive swimming with the Hapoel Megiddo team.

He served as a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force. From 1998 to 2020 he was CEO of Metalicon Technologies. He later became business manager of Kibbutz Shefayim, where he is a member, and he is married with 3 children.

He began endurance sports with running and completed marathons and ultramarathons, including a 250 km race in Madagascar in 2014. From 2013 he trained with a masters swim group coached by Uri Sela, focusing on long marathon swims.

In 2016 he swam 70.5 km from Sdot Yam to Haifa in 24:13 hours, in memory of his daughter Neta. He later swam around Manhattan, crossed the English Channel and crossed the Catalina Channel, becoming the second Israeli to complete the Triple Crown of open water swimming.

In January 2020 he and Eyal Shechner founded the Galilee Marathon Swimming association, which he chairs. It promotes marathon swimming and certifies such swims in Israel.