[3] At age six, his family returned to Sacramento, California, and he began to compete at his local swim club. [39][49] Spitz and his wife reside in Los Angeles, California. He also won a bronze medal in the 100-meter freestyle in 53.00 seconds at the same games. He travels the world, delivering about 25 lectures a year. The Games were called the British Empire Games from Justin was a member of the Stanford swim team. Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He called choosing Indiana and Counsilman "the biggest decision of my life (and) the best. [53][54], After Spitz's return to the United States following the 1972 Olympics, he landed several lucrative corporate endorsement contracts. Lezak qualified for his fourth Olympics at the 2012 United States Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. [24], At age 41, Spitz attempted a comeback for the 1992 Summer Olympics after filmmaker Bud Greenspan offered him a million dollars if he succeeded in qualifying. in January 1969, he decided to attend Indiana University[2] to train with legendary Indiana Hoosiers swimming coach Doc Counsilman,[15] who was also his Olympic coach in Mexico City. ; US Open record: The fastest time within the United States. Furthermore, Spitz set a new world record in each of the seven events 100-meter freestyle (51.22), 200-meter freestyle (1:52.78), 100-meter butterfly (54.27), 200-meter butterfly (2:00.70), 4100-meter freestyle relay (3:26.42), 4200-meter freestyle relay (7:35.78), and 4100-meter medley relay (3:48.16). [7], The Americas Masters Games is a regional multi-sport event which involves participants from the Americas region. The municipality of Tel Aviv decorated the streets with greenery and flowers. Both teams finished nearly four seconds ahead of the previous world record. [25] Spitz's comeback attempt made the cover of Parade and was also reported on in Sports Illustrated and Esquire. The following year, Spitz emerged on the world swimming stage when he set his first world record at a small California meet with a time of 4:10.60 in the 400-meter freestyle. The games have been held every four years, halfway between sets of consecutive Summer Olympic Games, since 1990.Prior to that year, all ten of the FEI's individual disciplines held separate championships, usually in In 1971, he won the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Black September called the operation "Iqrit and Biram", after two Palestinian Christian villages What you did tonight was epic, and it was epic for the whole world to see how great you really are. Approximately 10,000 It is held biennially, and has been held since 2006. There wasn't anyone who'd gone to the Olympics before me who capitalized the same way on opportunity. The World Masters Games is an international multi-sport event held every four years which, in terms of competitor numbers, has developed into the largest of its kind. Lezak earned his first long-course international swimming gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he was part of the 4100-meter medley relay in the Olympics in Sydney. He also won a silver medal in the 4100-meter freestyle relay. So I wasn't able to get to the Olympics and watch Michael in the first couple of days. [67] "During my Olympic training, I attributed the symptoms [of acid reflux] to an overexposure to chlorine and eating too soon before and after swimming," says Spitz. The number in parentheses indicates the number of athletes from that delegation. The 1st Maccabiah (aka The Maccabiah[1] and the White Horse Olympics[2][3]) (Hebrew: or Hebrew: [1]) was the first edition of the Maccabiah, which was held in Mandatory Palestine from March 28 to April 2, 1932. You know, you weren't born when I did what I did, and I'm sure that I was a part of your inspiration, and I take that as a full compliment. In 1974, he was in a number of Schick razors commercials. The creation of the AYG is part of Singapore's bid to host the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. [5] A number of individual athletes from "B'nai B'rith" also participated (representing no specific country). [15] Austrian Olympic swimmer Hedy Bienenfeld won gold medals in the 100m backstroke, 200m breaststroke, and 4x100 m freestyle, a silver medal in the 100m freestyle, and the bronze medal in the 300m freestyle. The European Games are the 5th continental Games in the Olympic tradition to be initiated, after Foster, was released in July 2008. "[66] He also commented on his moustache in a live, in-studio interview with KCRA host Mike TeSelle on June 14, 2008, Spitz stating that he no longer maintains his iconic moustache because it had become "too gray", After retirement, Spitz was diagnosed with acid reflux disease, a condition from which his physician thinks he suffered throughout his career. [4] The land of the stadium was allocated by the British Government which loaned it to Maccabi. [45], In 2012, Spitz appeared in a commercial for Ageless Male, a testosterone supplement. Dates Course LMSC 2022 Meets; Oct 23, 2022: SCY: FL: 1st Annual SWAGtoberfest Masters Meet: Oct 22-23, 2022: SCY: SE: 2022 Ensworth Aquatics Masters SCY Ghoul in the Pool Invitational [13] Participants compete for themselves, instead of their countries. At the time, Lezak's split of 46.06 was the fastest 100-meter freestyle split ever by nearly 0.6 seconds (at the 2019 World Championships Duncan Scott swam a 46.14 in the 4100-meter freestyle relay to reduce that margin to 0.08 seconds). History. Spitz was already the holder of ten world records, and he brashly predicted that he would win six gold medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. According to a Sports Illustrated article, on February 14, 1988, after talking about shaving off his moustache for a year, he finally did. The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 (cancelled due to World War II), have successively run every four years since. [19], The United States won 12 gold medals in track & field, four alone won by Harry Schneider, a former New York University football and track player, breaking the previous Olympic record in discus throw. [3], Lezak was born in Irvine, California, the son of Linda (ne Mann), a former elementary school science teacher, and David Lezak, a former leather goods salesman. Special Olympics World Games take place every two years and alternate between Summer and Winter Games, a schedule similar to the Olympics and Paralympics. Nathan Adrian, Michael Phelps, Cullen Jones and Ryan Lochte swam in the finals, and together all these competitors earned a silver medal for the team's second-place finish in the finals. [5][6] This is more than double the number of competitors that took part in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Since 2017, they've been He did even better, winning seven Olympic gold medals. Congratulations, Mike. The games were in commemoration of the 1800th anniversary of the Bar Kokhba revolt, a major rebellion by the Jews of Judaea Province against the Roman Empire. And now the whole world knows. And an International Olympic Committee has got their hand in the pockets of the network television people, so there's a tremendous conflict of interest in what they should do and what they're doing. [21] The 5,000 and 10,000 meter races took place on the streets of Tel Aviv - a race that took place on mostly unpaved and sandy roads. [19][20] Being Jewish himself, there was concern among the Olympic authorities that Spitz would become a likely target for the Palestinians and he was escorted to London for his own safety. And so, I'm sort of disappointed that I wasn't there, but, you know, that interview somehow took a different turn, and I've done hundreds and hundreds of them and I've been true to form about the way I feel about Michael, and he's doing a great job for the United States and inspiring a lot of great performances by the other team members. [citation needed], Mark Spitz is quoted as saying, "When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the moustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about itand everybody was talking about itthat I decided to keep it. His pro career lasted for nearly fifteen years, spanning four Olympic games and eight Olympic medals.. Lezak is best known for his performance at the 2008 Summer Olympics as They have been held since 1995, although championships for separate sports had been held for some years. [10], Lezak also earned his first individual Olympic medal, having tied for bronze with Brazilian swimmer Csar Cielo Filho in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 47.67. We are so proud of you Michael here in America, and we are so proud of you and the way that you handle yourself, and you represent such an inspiration to all the youngsters around the world. Between 1968 and 1972, Spitz won nine Olympic golds, a silver, and a bronze, in addition to five Pan American golds, 31 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) titles, and eight National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) titles. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Spitz was back to repeat his quest for the six gold medals. Auckland, New Zealand hosted the event's ninth edition from 21 to 30 April 2017.[4]. This made him the first American president to attend the Maccabiah Games. Spitz was born on February 10, 1950, in Modesto, California, the first of three children[3] of Lenore Sylvia (Smith) and Arnold Spitz. [38], Spitz narrated Freedom's Fury, a 2006 Hungarian documentary about the Olympic water polo team's Blood in the Water match against the Soviet Union during the Revolution of 1956considered among the most famous water polo matches. Overview. Since then, World Masters Games has also taken place in Aalborg, Aarhus and Herning (1989), Brisbane (1994), Portland, Oregon (1998), Melbourne (2002), Edmonton (2005) and Sydney (2009). The World Masters Games[1] is an international multi-sport event held every four years which, in terms of competitor numbers, has developed into the largest of its kind. However, he won only two team golds: the 4100-meter freestyle relay in 3:31.70, and the 4200-meter freestyle relay in 7:52.33. The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, by eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, who infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine others hostage. [16] Lezak was given the honor of lighting the Maccabiah torch at the Opening Ceremony. [27], After Spitz retired from competitive swimming at age 22, he was managed by the William Morris Agency, which tried to get him into show business while he was still a household name due to his athletic success. Below is a list of current Australian swimming records as ratified by the national governing body, Swimming Australia. [6] Hosts also helped out by taking their guests to their events. [62], His hobbies include sailing, skiing and collecting art. [4][5][6] When Spitz was two years old, his family moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he swam at Waikiki beach every day. The Military World Games is a multi-sport event for military sportspeople, organized by the International Military Sports Council (CISM). "He looked great with it, don't get me wrong," explained his wife Suzy, "but he looks so handsome without it."[65]. I want to be loved by the mothers.". There are two different kinds of swimming records in the United States and certified by USA Swimming: . [1][2] Swimming World Magazine named him World Swimmer of the Year in 1969, 1971, and 1972. [42] In 1998 he appeared with Evel Knievel in a TV commercial for PlayStation. [15], "1 ! . Drug news and drug distractions are not a good show. [11], In 1985, Spitz lit the torch to open the 1985 Maccabiah Games.[12]. At age 15 and weighing 130 pounds, he won four gold medals in Tel Aviv -- the 400 m freestyle, the 1,500 freestyle, the 400 m individual medley, and the 800 m freestyle relay, and was named the most outstanding athlete of the Games. A second current USL2 team, the Cincinnati Dutch Lions, played home games in Cincinnati from 2014 to 2016, but now plays at Northern Kentucky University. The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions.The competition is held among athletes from nations of the Americas, every four years in the year before the Summer Olympic Games.The only Winter Pan American [18], Ladislav Hecht of Czechoslovakia, who ranked as high as #6 in the world in tennis, won the gold medal in singles in tennis. In 1998 he criticized FINA for its "embarrassing" attempts to stamp out drug abuse, urging them to test for all known drugs. [40], He appeared in an advertisement for the California Milk Advisory Board. Some of them are dead. The FEI World Equestrian Games are the major international championships for equestrianism, and are administered by the Fdration Equestre Internationale (FEI). Men's swimming has been part of the official program of the Summer Olympics since the Games' modern inception in 1896; it was not until 1912 that women's events were held. [13] At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, Jimmy Feigen, Matt Grevers, Ricky Berens and Lezak swam for the U.S. team in the preliminaries. "[57] Spitz went on to start a real estate company. Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG), formerly Khelo India School Games (KISG), are the annual national level multidisciplinary grassroot games in India held in January or February for two categories, namely under-17 years school students and under-21 college students. "Yes, I am a bit upset about it. "I did very well, thank you very much. He spoke at the JCC Maccabiah Games Opening Ceremonies, which was held in Richmond, Virginia. [4] At the stadium, they were greeted by the High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, who approved the games. In 2004, he appeared in a TV commercial for Sprint PCS. The Asian Youth Games, also known as AYG, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia.The Games have been organized by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). The first Maccabiah hosted a large number of competitions despite the large of venues and equipments. Participants compete for themselves there are no country delegations. After he had completed his events, Spitz left Munich early as a result of the Munich Massacre, where eleven Israeli athletes were taken hostage and later murdered by Palestinian terrorists. [61], In July 2012, he endorsed Istanbul's bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, but the award went to Tokyo. Approximately 10,000 I did some television and speaking engagements, and things just went from there. With the backing of Mayor of London Boris The FINA World Junior Swimming Championships (or "Junior Worlds") is a swimming championship event organized by FINA for girls aged 1417 and boys aged 1518 on 31 December of the year of the competition. Lezak has also won seven U.S. Championships, three times in the 50-meter freestyle and four in the 100-meter freestyle. [citation needed], Following the Munich Olympics, Spitz retired from competition even though he was only 22 years old. "[56] Spitz added, "I would say I was a pioneer. Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. Although Friendship Games officials denied that the Games were to be a counter-Olympic event to avoid conflicts [4] He swam for the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos swimming and diving team from 1995 to 1998. If I swim six and win six, I'll be a hero. Spitz was disappointed in his 1968 Olympic performance. 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