wtb: Swimmer Mark Spinks
Thmann
send description and price. Thanks!
Sandra Doyle
: Am interested in buying signed photo of Olympic swimmer Mark Spinks. PLs
: send description and price. Thanks!
Are you talking about Mark Spitz? Don't have an addy but this is
what I got from Britannica On Line.
Sandra
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Spitz, Mark (Andrew)
(b. Feb. 10, 1950, Modesto, Calif., U.S.) , U.S. swimmer, first athlete
to win seven gold (first-place) medals in a single Olympic Games (1972,
Munich).
Like many other outstanding U.S. swimmers, Spitz trained for several
years at the Santa Clara Swim Club (California). A graduate (1972) of
Indiana University, Bloomington, he served as captain of the school's
intercollegiate swimming team. In the Olympic Games of 1968 (Mexico City)
he aroused controversy by publicly predicting that he would capture six gold
medals. In fact he won only two, both in team relay races (400-metre and
800-metre freestyle). In the 1972 Games, however, he placed first and set
world records in all four individual men's events he entered: the
100-metre and 200-metre freestyle (51.2 sec and 1 min 52.8 sec), and the
butterfly over the same distance (54.3 sec and 2 min 0.7 sec). He added
three more gold medals as a member of victorious U.S. men's teams (in
the 400-metre and 800-metre freestyle relays and the 400-metre medley
relay), which also set world records (all records subsequently broken).
Thmann
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