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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
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 92
- Total plays
- 234
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Spitz">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,835x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,051x
- Managing Legitimacy: Strategic and Institutional Approaches
· 1995 · cited 40,205x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,686x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,405x
via Crossref · CC0
Sports profile
- Sport
- Watersports
- Team
- _Retired Watersports
- Position
- Swimmer
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Official website
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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
- 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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