Before the age of two, his family moved to Hawaii , and just like the last big Hawaiian swimmer Duke Kahanemoku , learned to swim at the beach in Waikiki. At eight years old , back in California , he began to swim in the ranks of the YMCA club . A year later he had his own coach , Sherm Chavoor . Practiced swimming seven days a week and 52 weeks a year. Before age 11 , Spitz was already holds 17 national records in its category . Soon after, his father enrolled him in the Santa Clara Swim Club , where I had a coach, George Haines, yet harder than Chavoor . In 1967 he won five medals at the Pan American Games in Canada.

A year later, at the Mexico Olympics , Spitz won two gold medals ( 4x100 and 4x200 free relay) , one silver ( 100m butterfly ) and one bronze ( 100m freestyle ) , triumphs considered somewhat disappointing , expecting to win five or six gold medals . Four years later, the results were very different . First, Spitz had a new coach, Doc Counsilman specialist handle athletes, which led him to win four national championships and two intercollegiate , setting seven world records . When the U.S. team arrived in Munich , Spitz had qualified for seven events .

Modesto, 1950) American swimmer. In the Munich Olympics of 1972 he won seven gold medals in seven events in which he participated, a record high in the same edition of the Olympic Games, plus break seven world records.

Mark Spitz

(Modesto, 1950) Nadador norteamericano. En las Olimpiadas de Munich de 1972 consigui siete medallas de oro en las siete pruebas en las que particip, el mximo histrico en una misma edicin de los Juegos Olmpicos, adems de batir siete rcords mundiales.