Career
Spitz won every event he entered at the 1972 Munich Olympics and set a world record in each of the seven, a standard that stood until Phelps. He retired at twenty-two, having won nine Olympic golds in total.
🏊 Swimming · Freestyle / butterfly
Mark Spitz
United States · 1965–1972
Seven golds and seven world records in one week.
- 9
- Olympic golds
- 7
- Golds in 1972
- 7
- World records in 1972
- 22
- Retired at
Honours
- Seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics
- World record in every event he won in Munich
- Nine Olympic gold medals in total
- Thirty-three world records over his career
