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>>Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950, in Modesto, California) is a two-time American Olympic swimmer.

He holds the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games (seven), which he set at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He remains (as of 2008) the only Olympic athlete to both win a gold medal in every (individual) event he entered in a given year, and to set a new world record in each such event.

Between 1965 and 1972, Spitz won 9 Olympic gold medals, 1 silver, and 1 bronze; 5 Pan American golds; 31 National U.S. Amateur Athletic Union titles; and 8 U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships. During those years, he set 33 world records.

His participation in the Munich games, swimming with a mustache, gained him a bit of notoriety as most competitors opt to swim without facial hair, often shaving their bodies completely.

When he was two years old, his family moved to Hawaii, where he learned to swim. At age six his family returned to Sacramento, California, and he began to compete at his local swim club. At age nine, he was training at Arden Hills Swim Club in Sacramento with Sherm Chavoor, the swimming coach who mentored Spitz and six other Olympic medal winners.

Spitz continued to show his tremendous talents by the early age of 10, holding 17 national age-group and one world record (it is said that Michael Phelps was the youngest to break a world record. "Phelps broke the world record in the 200 m butterfly to become, at 15 years and 9 months, the youngest man ever to set a swimming world record.") At 14, the family moved to Santa Clara so Spitz could train with George Haines of the Santa Clara Swim Club. At 16, he won the 100 meter butterfly at the National AAU Championships, the first of his 24 AAU titles.

Disappointed in his 1968 Olympic performance, Spitz entered Indiana University to train with legendary coach Doc Counsilman, who was also his coach in Mexico City. At Indiana from 1968-72, he was a pre-dental student and member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. While at IU, Spitz won 8 individual NCAA titles. In 1971, he won the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States.Spitz also set a number of world records during the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials held in Chicago's Portage Park in 1972.

He was named World Swimmer of the Year in 1969, 1971 and 1972.

He was nicknamed by his team mates, "Mark the Shark!"

In 1967, he established a record, winning five gold medals at the V Pan American Games in Winnipeg. Forty years later his record was surpassed by Brazilian swimmer Thiago Pereira at the XV Pan American Games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he won six gold medals.

Holder of 10 world records already, Spitz predicted brashly he would win 6 golds at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. However, he won only two team golds: the 4 x 100 meter freestyle, and the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relays. In addition, Spitz finished 2nd in the 100 m butterfly. In this event he was beaten by fellow American Doug Russell by 1/2 a second despite holding the world record and having beaten Russell in the previous 10 times they had swum against each other in that year. Russell did briefly match Spitz's world record in late August of 1967, holding the world record equally with Spitz for 5 days before Spitz regained it solely on October 2 1967. As a result of being beaten by Russell, Spitz did not get to swim in the 100m Medley Relay which gave Russell his second Gold medal and the USA team another World Record swim . He also finished 3rd in the 100 m freestyle at the same games. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich (West Germany), Spitz was back to maintain his bid for the 6 gold medals.

He did even more, winning 7 Olympic gold medals, a feat still unequaled by any other athlete in a single Olympiad. Further, Spitz set a new world record in each of the 7 events (the 100 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle, 100 m butterfly, 200 m butterfly, 4 x 100 m freestyle, 4 x 200 m freestyle and the 4 x 100 m medley).

Spitz's accomplishments at Munich were overshadowed by the Palestinian terrorism attack that claimed the lives of 11 Israeli athletes (Spitz had previously spent time in Israel competing in the Maccabiah Games). In the immediate aftermath Spitz, who is Jewish, left Munich. The hostage crisis had affected Spitz personally, as he had been a guest in the home of Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg (the first victim of the massacre) while visiting Israel, and had been friendly with many of the athletes and officials who had been killed.

The 1965 Maccabiah Games was his first international competition. At the age of 15, in Tel Aviv Spitz won four gold medals and was named the most outstanding athlete.

He returned to Israel in 1969, following the Mexico Olympics, to again compete in the Maccabiah. This time he won six gold medals. He was also named outstanding athlete of the Games.

In 1985 Spitz opened the games, lighting a torch along with three children of Israeli Olympians murdered at the Munich Olympics.

In 2005, he was chosen to be the flag bearer for the U.S. delegation to the 17th Maccabiah Games.

Retirement and attempted comeback

Still only aged 22, Spitz retired from swimming after the Munich Games. His management tried to get him into show business while his name was still hot. In 1973-4, Spitz appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and TV series such as The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour and Emergency! as paramedic Pete Barlow. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences considered hiring him as an Oscars host (despite the fact he hadn't made any films), and there was even talk Spitz might become the next James Bond (the role went to Roger Moore instead). But Spitz was clearly uncomfortable on camera, and he quickly ended his foray into show business.

Then, at age 41, Spitz attempted to make a comeback in an attempt to qualify for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, after film maker Bud Greenspan offered to pay him a million dollars if he succeeded in qualifying. Filmed by Greenspan's cameras, Spitz failed to beat the qualifying limit, despite the fact his times were nearly as good as (and in some cases better than) his medal-winning times 20 years earlier. But the sport had moved on during the intervening years and Spitz was well out of it.

In 2006 he received critical praise for his narration of Freedom's Fury, a Hungarian documentary about the country's Olympic water polo team during the Revolution of 1956. The film was executive produced by Quentin Tarantino and Lucy Liu, and made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival.

November 8, 2007 Amanda Beard made her first-ever appearance in a television commercial. Along with Beard and her own seven medals, the commercial features a cameo appearance by Spitz, winner of seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games.

Spitz and his wife, Suzy (née Weiner), both Jewish, have been married since 1973, and have two sons, Matthew (b. 1981) and Justin (b. 1991).

Chemist E. H. Bronner maintained that Spitz was a prophet. He is mentioned in Bronner's fifth MORAL ABC which appears on each bottle of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap.

Whatever unites mankind is better than whatever divides us! Yet, if absolute-unselfish I am not for me, I'm nothing but classless raceless, starving masses, never free nor brave! Only if constructive-selfish I work hard perfecting first me, like Mark Spitz - Arctic owls - penguin - pilot - cat - swallow - beaver, bee can I teach the MORAL ABC's ALL-ONE-GOD-FAITH, that lightning-like unites the Human race! For we're ALL-ONE OR NONE! ALL-ONE! 'listen children eternal father eternally one!' EXCEPTIONS ETERNALLY? ABSOLUTE NONE!

Spitz has sued Dr. Bronner's over this reference.

In 1999, Spitz ranked #33 on ESPN SportsCentury 50 Greatest Athletes, the only aquatic athlete to make the list.

Per his official Web site, Spitz is currently self-employed as a corporate spokesperson and motivational speaker.

In a live, in-studio interview with KCRA host Mike TeSelle on June 14, 2008, Spitz commented that he no longer maintains his iconic mustache because it had become "too gray."

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SPITZ, Mark Andrew

DoB: 10/2/1950 Time: 17:45 (-8:00 PST) GMT Time: 01:45 day after

Location: 121W00 37N38 Modesto -CA- (USA)

Category: Sports champion

Source: The Gauquelin's data collection: Gauquelin Report on American Data', 1982

Rodden's AstroDatabank Rating: AA

Astrological Setting (Tropical - Placidus)

RIYAL Sat February 11 1950 UT 1h45m00s Lat37n38 Lon121w00 SORT ALL

Planet Longit. Latit. Declin. Const.

Radamantu= 0Ca16 r 12n53 36n20 Aur

Varuna = 0Ta19 15s31 2s59 Cet

CR105 = 0Ge20 21s02 0s23 Eri

QB1 = 0Aq28 1s49 21s50 Cap

GV9 = 0Le37 r 17s53 2n32 CMi

Uranus = 1Ca15 r 0n16 23n43 Gem

SB60 = 1Cp26 3s57 27s23 Sgr

MS4 = 1Sc56 r 1s29 13s32 Vir

GB32 = 2Le06 r 11s43 8n15 Cnc

OO67 = 2Sa27 19n44 1s17 Ser

Asbolus = 2Ca32 r 18n03 41n28 Aur

TO66 = 2Aq51 21s47 40s37 Mic

Crantor = 2Ar57 11s30 9s23 Cet

RP120 = 3Sc05 r 10s56 22s47 Hya

Cyllarus = 3Sc22 r 4n21 8s33 Vir

Elatus = 3Aq33 2s53 22s10 Cap

Hylonome = 3Ta49 2s32 10n24 Ari

CZ118 = 3Le58 r 19n02 37n40 Lyn

HB57 = 4Le41 r 15s01 4n29 Hya

SA278 = 4Pi44 4n12 5s52 Aqr

RZ214 = 4Cp45 17n40 5s43 Ser

Venus = 5Aq01 r 8n03 11s12 Cap

WL7 = 5Sc11 r 5s30 18s26 Vir

GQ21 = 5Le45 r 12s37 6n36 Hya

Eris = 6Ar33 24s24 19s44 Cet

KF77 = 6Ca57 r 4n26 27n41 Gem

Quaoar = 7Li19 r 0s15 3s08 Vir

Typhon = 7Ar46 0n43 3n44 Psc

UR163 = 8Aq00 0n05 18s11 Cap

XR190 = 8Ta09 29n32 41n46 And

RN43 = 8Sa11 16n49 5s03 Oph

PA44 = 8Sc12 0s17 14s30 Lib

Node = 8Ar34 r 0n00 3n24 Psc

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CE10 = 9Sc18 r 33s12 45s30 Cen

FZ53 = 9Pi28 24n10 14n23 Peg

CO104 = 9Pi28 0s38 8s37 Aqr

RR43 = 9Aq30 20s11 37s13 Mic

TY364 = 9Aq54 4n35 13s22 Aqr

FP185 = 10Ca11 r 30s36 7s27 Mon

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Mars = 11Li02 3n18 1s19 Vir

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Chariklo = 14Sa47 17s36 40s03 Sco

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OM67 = 15Sa50 22s07 44s39 Sco

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RZ215 = 16Sc02 23s13 38s40 Cen

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LE31 = 16Pi54 21s44 25s03 Aqr

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TC302 = 18Pi38 21s09 23s50 Aqr

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TL66 = 19Aq01 23n06 6n53 Equ

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Chiron = 19Sa46 4n48 18s16 Oph

XX143 = 20Vi18 r 6n26 9n45 Leo

FY9 = 20Ca32 r 16n52 38n31 Lyn

GM137 = 20Ge36 r 1s24 21n43 Tau

AZ84 = 20Ta50 4n32 22n21 Ari

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Sun = 21Aq46 0n00 14s15 Cap

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QD112 = 22Ge24 r 14n41 37n53 Aur

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Huya = 22Ca52 r 13s04 8n37 CMi

Sedna = 22Ar57 10s18 0s39 Cet

Logos = 23Ge12 r 2s10 21n06 Tau

TX300 = 23Cp22 13s47 34s59 Sgr

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AW197 = 24Ge04 r 13n34 36n52 Aur

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Chaos = 26Pi28 9s24 10s01 Cet

XA255 = 26Ar35 12s19 1s15 Cet

RL43 = 26Li40 r 8n32 2s19 Vir

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CF119 = 28Ta34 17n46 37n06 Per

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OX3 = 28Sc51 1s32 21s25 Sco

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QF6 = 29Vi41 r 14n39 13n33 Vir

CY118 = 29Ge54 r 24s43 1s16 Ori

UJ438 = 29Sc59 1s37 21s44 Sco

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Focused Minor Planets

EL61 = 21 Le 05 r

Sedna = 22 Ar 57 Grand Trine

Teharonhi = 22 Sa 02

OP32 = 22 Sc 42 Square

FY9 = 20 Ca 32 r Semisextile

Quaoar = 7 Li 19 r Semisquare

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Node = 8 Ar 34 r Trine

Quaoar = 7 Li 19 r Sextile

XR190 = 8 Ta 09 Quincunx

TX300 = 23 Cp 22 Semisquare

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Deucalion = 26 Le 03 r

Mercury = 25 Cp 53 Semisextile

Chaos = 26 Pi 28

AW197 = 24 Ge 04 r Trine

Amycus = 25 Ar 04 Sextile

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Quaoar = 7 Li 19 r

Venus = 5 Aq 01 r Sextile

GQ21 = 5 Le 45 r Trine

RZ214 = 4 Cp 45 Square

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Mars = 11 Li 02 Square

Nessus = 10 Ta 44 Sextile

TY364 = 9 Aq 54 Quincunx

Deucalion = 26 Le 03 r Semisquare

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Ixion = 15 Li 54 r

Neptune = 17 Li 12 r

Jupiter = 16 Aq 09 Trine

Echeclus = 15 Ge 11 r

Pluto = 16 Le 53 r Sextile

RZ215 = 16 Sc 02 Semisextile

YQ179 = 15 Ta 42 Quincunx

Pelion = 14 Ca 55 r Square

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Saturn = 17 Vi 52 r Quincunx