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Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven gold medals, each in world-record time.
Jun 5, 2021 · Spitz and his wife currently live in Los Angeles and apparently you can still find him swimming at UCLA, even though he is now in his 70s. Hey, they called him "Mark the Shark," and we all know that if a shark stops swimming, it'll die.
Oct 11, 2023 · In September 2019, Mark Spitz, an athlete who was once in the sort of shape it took to be among the greatest of all time, posted to his Twitter account about spreading awareness for atrial fibrillation because it was a condition with which he'd recently been diagnosed.
Sep 4, 2022 · For Mark Spitz, Olympic Greatness Came Amid Tragedy. The former swimmer said it was “like an out-of-body experience” to win seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games and then learn that ...
Aug 25, 2022 · Mark Spitz's episode in the docuseries "72 - A Gathering of Champions" drops today. It is live now. See the link at the top of this post.
Sep 4, 2019 · Olympic swimming legend Mark Spitz was recently diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, or an irregular heartbeat, a rep for Spitz confirmed.
Jul 16, 2021 · CNN — Mark Spitz, the legendary swimmer who held the record of seven Olympic gold medals in a single Games before Michael Phelps won eight in 2008, says even his fellow American’s mark will...
This time, Spitz had his eye on seven gold medals, and he started off with the same event that had been his final race in 1968 – the 200m b butterfly. He was nervous at the start, but in the end his victory was comfortable – two seconds clear, with a new world record.
May 10, 2021 · In this podcast 9-time Olympic gold medalist Mark Spitz unpacks who he feared, his secret warmup, and what fueled his passion to win.
Tall, dark, goggle-less and, most crucially of all, moustached, Mark Spitz is one of the most instantly recognisable Olympic athletes of all time. At the Munich 1972 Games the swimmer won seven gold medals in a scarcely believable seven world-record times.
