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Mark Spitz

Awards And Accomplishments

1960	Wins seventeen national age-group titles
1966	Wins first of 24 national Amateur Athletic Union championships
1967	World records in 400-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly, and 200-meter butterfly events; five gold medals at Pan-American Games
1968	Individual bronze and silver medalist at Mexico City Olympics, gold in the 4x100-meter and 4x200-meter freestyle relays
1969	World Swimmer of the Year
1971	Amateur Athletic Union's James E. Sullivan Memorial Award; World Swimmer of the Year
1972	World records in all seven events at Munich Olympics, first athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals in one Olympiad; World Swimmer of the Year; Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year
1977	Inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, as an honor swimmer
1983	Inducted into U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame, with first class of inductees