Hans Van Alphen (born 12 January 1982, in Turnhout) is a Belgian decathlete.
Van Alphen won the silver medal at the 2007 Summer Universiade and finished eleventh at the 2007 World Championships.
[1] In 2008, Van Alphen was a competitor in the decathlon of the Beijing Olympics, but did not finish all the events due to injury.
He was just below the 8000-point mark at the 2010 Hypo-Meeting, where he came 13th,[2] then he set a personal best score of 8072 points to finish fifth at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona.
[3] Continuing in that vein, he set a best in the men's heptathlon at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, taking ninth place with a total of 5938 points.