Mark Spitz biography
He won 9 gold Olympic medals of 7 of them at the Olympics of the year, 1 silver and 1 bronze. Only Michael Felps could beat this achievement. Over the years of his sports career, he set 31 world records. Additional information: at the age of 22 in the Ratswain, he finished swimming, but in the year, at the age of 41, he tried to get to the Olympics in Barcelona, but 2 seconds sailed worse than the qualification standard.
His hobbies include sailing, skiing and collecting works of art. Currently, as an invited speaker at corporate and public events. Choosing a "athlete of the year", they considered only one candidate. The Olympic year has become the benefit of the Spitz brand. During the week at the Olympic Games in Munich, the American swimmer set a record that is unlikely to be destined to have a mouth, won seven gold medals.
In the general opinion, only catastrophic bad luck prevented him from committing something similar four years earlier - in Mexico City. On the eve of the performance of the swimmer, the most severe cold dumped, nullifying the years of work. Not very, by the way, tense, according to the first coach Mark Sherma Chavur. According to him, the legendary athlete distinguished from all others not only natural talent, but also truly phenomenal laziness, suspiciousness and cowardice.
Spitz was born on February 10 in an ordinary Jewish family. When the baby was two years old, his father, a stale engineer, was sent on a business trip to Hawaii. By that time, Mark knew how to stay on the water, and almost every day his mother caught him on the famous Vaikiki beach, where the child ran away as far as possible. Two years later, the family returned to California, and a few years later Mark ended up in the strongest club of the country - Santa Clara.
At the age of 15, Spitz won four gold at the Maccabian games in Israel. At 17 he received five higher awards at Panmerican Games. He swam all the distances of butterfly and the free style - from "hundreds" to 1 meters. And almost always won. The chavur turned out to be a subtle psychologist: early noticing the student’s nervous imagination, he constantly held a bottle of harmless glucose tablets at the ready.
And before the starts, when the brand was invariably like migraines, gastric disorder, dizziness, liver pain and joints, emphasized from others to give the ward a “miraculous medicine”. They say that when Spitz changed the coach, he moved to a group of the most famous specialist in America, Cauntilman, the chavur could not resist the little revenge. At the next US championship, before the start of 1 meters, he in front of everyone gave a tablet to another of his student, laughing in the face of the brand.
Spitz lost the distance and had never been declared in this type of program again. Most likely, failures in M were associated precisely with the change of coach. But the games in Munich became a truly stellar spite. On the very first day, he won the distances of meters of butterfly, the most difficult type of swimming in energy costs, and an hour later won gold in the American relay of 4 meters free style.
The next day he became a champion at a free -style meters. Then he won the "hundred" butterfly, the relay race of 4x, the "hundred" free and combined 4x and all seven higher awards were accompanied by world records. And after the games, the summer spitz left swimming at all. He realized his fantastic talent for percent. It's time to remove the foam. In subsequent years, the legendary champion tried himself on television, in cinema, but without much success.
At large swimming competitions, Spitz last appeared in M in Atlanta. There is little left of playboy's appearance. The former standard of male beauty of the flash, began to dye his hair. According to the people who communicated with him, he never looks into the eyes of the interlocutor, which does not cause sympathy or the desire to continue the conversation.
And does not like noisy gatherings. After all, no one will know him for a long time. Mark Spitz in the center.