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Mark Spitz

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Mark Spitz

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American Olympic swimmer (born 1950)

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Mark Andrew Spitz is a male American competitive swimmer born on February 10, 1950, in Modesto, California. He represented the United States in the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics. Spitz was a member of the Indiana Hoosiers sports team while attending Indiana University Bloomington. He stands 1.83 meters tall and speaks English.

Spitz has received the Associated Press Athlete of the Year award and is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. He has authored five works, including *Seven Golds*, *The Mark Spitz complete book of swimming*, *Making Waves*, *Mensch, Christine!*, and *The Numb Foot Book How To Treat And Prevent Peripheral Neuropathy*.

Synthesized by Vinony from 43 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Thesportsdb, Firecrawl, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • Mensch, Christine!
  • Making Waves
  • The Numb Foot Book How To Treat And Prevent Peripheral Neuropathy
  • The Mark Spitz complete book of swimming
  • Seven Golds

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Modesto, California, USA

Known for

  • Hell's Kitchen — Self - Restaurant Patron2005
  • American Dad! — Mark Spitz (voice)2005
  • The Olympic Series: Golden Moments 1920 - 2002 — Self2004
  • Olympia 1972 in München — Self1997
  • Challenge of a Lifetime1985
  • The 500 Pound Jerk — Mark Spitz (uncredited)1973
  • Emergency!1972
  • Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In — Self1968
  • The Mike Douglas Show — Self1961

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Japan
Active from
1987
fixme label messj-rockpop rockrock

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
92
Total plays
234

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Spitz">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Mark Spitz

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

    · 2012 · cited 66,835x

  2. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 51,051x

  3. Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches

    · 1995 · cited 40,205x

  4. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

    · 2009 · cited 39,686x

  5. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

    · 2007 · cited 31,405x

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Sports profile

Sport
Watersports
Team
_Retired Watersports
Position
Swimmer
Nationality
United States

via TheSportsDB

Official website

Home | Mark Spitz

Mark Spitz USA Olympic Gold Medalist Swimmer

markspitzusa.com →

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Andrew
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Modesto
Occupation
swimmer
Languages spoken
English language
Award
Associated Press Athlete of the Year
Sport
competitive swimming
Member of team
Indiana Hoosiers
Country for sport
United States
Official website
www.markspitzusa.com
Image
Mark Spitz.jpg
Height
1.83
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Commons category
Mark Spitz
date of birth
1950-02-10
birth name
Mark Andrew Spitz
name in native language
Mark Spitz
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Sources (3)

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Encyclopedic overview

Olympic Games

1968 Mexico City4×100 m freestyle

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mark Spitz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (8)

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