All NINE of Mark Spitz's gold medal races! | Athlete Highlights
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- Mark Spitz is one of the greatest swimmers of all time. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games.
After two golds at Mexico 1968, at the 1972 Munich Games, Spitz was determined to make up for his perceived below-par performance four years earlier. He did not disappoint. Over a period of eight days, Mark Spitz entered seven events, won all seven and set a world record in every one.
Mark Spitz held the record for most gold medals won at a single Olympic Games for 36 years. It was finally broken by American phenomenon Michael Phelps who won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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No goggle, but mustache... awesome
No goggles era was fucking brutal.
Yep. I used to swim pretty competitively back then. I never even owned a pair of goggles.
Like Del, I had no goggles. I wore a cloth tie-up hat to disginuish my club. But Mark Spitz, with swimming knowledge at the time, was the best.
How could they swim without Google ? 😂
@@albertlanger2339 i remember the chlorine frying my eyes to blood red complete with what i called halo vision. It was Murine back then and the pain involved with just putting out the fire in the eyes enough to get homework done is something you never forget.
It was just part of the price you paid.
Absolutely love how he swims and the music on this.! And Mark’s shakeout before he swims to get loose !
Never had to worry about his goggles falling off when he dove in
His stroke was smooth as silk!!
The stache must've caused a lot of drag.
Thank you, great memories!
buddy's about to win all the Olympic medals
Great all round swimmer with style, spitz, a great olympic legend 🙂
nice music , goes with everything
It was worse than open water. Love the music.
What a beautiful stylist Mark Spitz was.
Maybe he is better than Phelps, he swam with no assistance, no suit, no goggles no underwater not even a flip turn.
Totally agree, I feel he's better than Phelps ... and more graceful. I remember those races. He was an awesome swimmer!. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
Absolutely agree, no question! The true champ!!!!!
Munich 1972:
7 Gold Medals, 7!World Records!
Unmatched forever!
7 Olympic Records as well...
I was there watching from the outside (16), climbed up the RSJs and had a great view down the length of the pool.
Phelps never won the 100m free of course...
He was kinda the Nadia of swimming. Not as powerful as the ones of today, but full of grace.
It was his remarkable 'feel for the water'. Like phelps, he was gifted with the genetic morphology to transform efficient energy into motion.
A legend in his own time that's for sure.
@@philipkeeler9997 I was a kid and it was also the first Olympics I watched (you never forget your first). It was also a big deal in our home because my family's from Munich. Spitz, Korbut, Alexeev, Shorter, and the stolen basketball game was what I remember most. But Spitz was definitely the golden boy of those games.
Looks like a thoroughbred
he looks strong by the way
is it just me or does he look like freddie mercury
Joe from family guy
Hi guys you came early
And he did it with a mustache and underarm hair
And a full head of hair as well!!!
He was talented and very attractive 🥵 🔥
No goggles!!
Very old school!
18/3/1995
USA USA USA 🇺🇲
1:46 How's that a 100? There's no turn???
they just didn't show it or it was a 50
@@picklerick4140 it wasn’t 50 they didn’t show it
@@aidanmcgrath7159 ok
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He won seven gold medals not nine
Two in 1968 - the film says it all!
@@gertrudlehmann4869 Correct!
How the stroke rate of today compares too then......windmill fast rate ...too slower catch the water technique of today's swimming....
i can do a better dive that that at 4:42. His legs went in flat
it was 50 years ago obviously it’s changed
The swimming is cut
1968 he choked so badly. He really should have won both butterfly events. He was not beating Mike Wenden in the 100m freestyle, though. Wenden was unbearable in that event. Think about what Spitz's record would look like with those 2 individual golds.
The training with James “Doc” Counsilman at IU was the key.
Doc Counsilman told him straight, (after nerves got the better Spitz) "unless you win the 100 free no one will remember you". Spitz delivered.