It was mixed from the masters to an Ampex ATR-102 1-inch 2-track customized by Mark Spitz at ATR Services.

Nurmi's record for most Olympic gold medals was matched by gymnast Larisa Latynina in 1964, swimmer Mark Spitz in 1972 and fellow track and field athlete Carl Lewis in 1996, and broken by swimmer Michael Phelps in 2008.

* 1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.

Young sports icons and Olympic athletes during their competitive times were considered teen idols like Jean-Claude Killy, Peggy Fleming, Bruce Jenner, Joe Namath, Dorothy Hamill, Mark Spitz, Nadia Comăneci, Mary Lou Retton, Dominique Moceanu, Michelle Kwan, Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Mia Hamm, Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps, Shaun White, Apolo Ohno, McKayla Maroney, and Gabby Douglas.

; 1972: Mark Spitz sets the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games ( seven ) in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

* Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Mark Spitz, Swimming

* 27 August – US swimmer Mark Spitz recaptures the world record in the men's 200m butterfly ( long course ), clocking 2: 03. 9 at a meet in Houston, Texas.

* 31 August – Four days after Mark Spitz broke the world record in the men's 200m butterfly ( long course ), West Germany's Hans-Joachim Fassnacht betters the time to 2: 03. 3 at a meet in Landskrona, Sweden.

* 22 August – US swimmer Mark Spitz breaks his own, nearly three-year old world record in the men's 200m butterfly ( long course ) with a time of 2: 05. 4.

Swimmer Mark Spitz won seven gold medals while sporting a moustache when swimmers usually shaved all their body hair to decrease drag.

* July 26 – American swimmer Mark Spitz breaks Kevin Berry's nearly three-year old world record in the men's 200m butterfly ( long course ) at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a time of 2: 06. 4.

* August 30 – John Ferris captures the world record from fellow-American Mark Spitz in the men's 200m butterfly ( long course ) by swimming 2: 06. 0 at a meet in Tokyo, Japan.

* October 8 – Mark Spitz regains his world record in the men's 200m butterfly ( long course ) at a meet in West Berlin, West Germany, clocking 2: 05. 7.

Narrated by Mark Spitz, produced by Lucy Liu and Quentin Tarantino.

He won four medals, including a bronze medal for the 100-metre race in the 1972 Games, in which he lost the gold medal by half a second to American swimming legend Mark Spitz.

Gambril coached many well-known Olympic swimmers, such as Mark Spitz, Sharon Stouder, and Gunnar Larsson ( Sweden ), Matt Biondi, Nancy Hogshead, Jonty Skinner ( South Africa ), Hans Fassnacht ( Germany ) and Mary Meagher.

* Mark Spitz

* Mark Spitz ( Swimming )

Mark Spitz in 2008.

* 1972 Summer Olympics-U. S. swimmer Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals

* Portage Park-The site of the swimming portion of the 1959 Pan American Games and where Gold Medalist Mark Spitz set new world's records during the 1972 U. S. Olympic swimming trials.

* Mark Spitz — Swimming, Men's 100 m Freestyle

* Mark Spitz — Swimming, Men's 200 m Freestyle

* Mark Mendoza ( born 1955 ), American bass player nicknamed " The Animal "

Mark Twain was a prominent American author of the 19th century.

* 1971 – Mark Povinelli, American actor

* 1965 – Mark Lemke, American baseball player

* 1968 – John Stanier, American drummer ( Helmet, Tomahawk, The Mark of Cain, and Battles )

* 1983 – Mark Reynolds, American baseball player

* 1927 – Peter Mark Richman, American actor

* 1954 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1962 – Mark Gubicza, American baseball player

* 1971 – Mark Loretta, American baseball player

* 1949 – Mark B. Rosenberg, American academic

* 1968 – Mark McGuinn, American singer-songwriter

* 1932 – Mark Russell, American comedian, singer, and pianist

* 1974 – Mark Bellhorn, American baseball player

* 1962 – Mark Shulman, American author

* 1956 – Mark Morris, American choreographer

* 1974 – Mark Tremonti, American musician ( Creed and Alter Bridge )

* 1969 – Mark Macon, American basketball player

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* 1947 – Mark Volman, American musician ( The Turtles and The Mothers Of Invention )

* 1953 – Mark Doty, American poet and writer

* 1910 – Mark Twain, American author and humorist ( b. 1835 )

* 1965 – Mark Bryant, American basketball player

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