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Mark Spitz
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Person

Mark Spitz

b. 1950

American Olympic swimmer (born 1950)

Born
10 Feb 1950 · Modesto

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 87 years
  1. 10 Feb 1950BornBorn in Modesto
  2. 1972Took part1972 Summer Olympics
  3. 1972AwardAssociated Press Athlete of the Year

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1950 – today).

  1. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  3. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  4. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  6. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  7. 1956Suez Crisis
  8. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  10. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  12. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  14. 1968Prague Spring
  15. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  16. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  17. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  19. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  20. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  21. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  22. 1985Schengen Agreement
  23. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  24. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  25. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  27. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  29. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  30. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  31. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  32. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  33. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  34. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  35. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  36. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  37. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  38. 20112011 Norway attacks
  39. 2011Libyan civil war
  40. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war

Biography

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. This achievement set a record that lasted for 36 years, until it was surpassed by fellow American Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Phelps, like Spitz, set seven world records.

Between 1968 and 1972, Spitz won nine Olympic golds, a silver, and a bronze, in addition to five Pan American golds, 31 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles, and eight National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) titles. During those years he set 35 world records, two of which were in trials and unofficial. Swimming World Magazine named him World Swimmer of the Year in 1969, 1971, and 1972. He was the third athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals.

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