All NINE of Mark Spitz's gold medal races! | Athlete Highlights

[@lexsoft3969]

No goggle, but mustache... awesome

[@ОлегХаустов-м6в]

Ещё и волосатый и без шапочки

[@liceous]

No goggles era was fucking brutal.

[@Del-Canada]

Yep. I used to swim pretty competitively back then. I never even owned a pair of goggles.

[@albertlanger2339]

Like Del, I had no goggles. I wore a cloth tie-up hat to disginuish my club. But Mark Spitz, with swimming knowledge at the time, was the best.

[@philippebajeux4130]

How could they swim without Google ? 😂

[@philipkeeler9997]

@@albertlanger2339 i remember the chlorine frying my eyes to blood red complete with what i called halo vision. It was Murine back then and the pain involved with just putting out the fire in the eyes enough to get homework done is something you never forget. It was just part of the price you paid.

[@jilliancarr5039]

I don’t think people realize how absolutely talented this guy was. No goggles. But to do all four strokes and compete and win is amazing

[@Batcaveqq]

Absolutely love how he swims and the music on this.! And Mark’s shakeout before he swims to get loose !

[@KC80009]

His stroke was smooth as silk!!

[@uhifido5420]

Never had to worry about his goggles falling off when he dove in

[@brianmcd9492]

Great all round swimmer with style, spitz, a great olympic legend 🙂

[@gertrudlehmann4869]

Thank you, great memories!

[@SWog617]

The stache must've caused a lot of drag.

[@henriqueoliveira2840]

not as much as his balls

[@jozefserf2024]

What a beautiful stylist Mark Spitz was.

[@hansjoachimthiel2503]

Munich 1972: 7 Gold Medals, 7!World Records! Unmatched forever!

[@anthonyclarke5579]

7 Olympic Records as well... I was there watching from the outside (16), climbed up the RSJs and had a great view down the length of the pool. Phelps never won the 100m free of course...

[@GoldanBoi]

buddy's about to win all the Olympic medals

[@federalisticnewyorkians4470]

Maybe he is better than Phelps, he swam with no assistance, no suit, no goggles no underwater not even a flip turn.

[@luvsdvds]

Totally agree, I feel he's better than Phelps ... and more graceful. I remember those races. He was an awesome swimmer!. 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

[@triciajohansen7124]

Absolutely agree, no question! The true champ!!!!!

[@fluturisialbine2585]

nice music , goes with everything

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

He was kinda the Nadia of swimming. Not as powerful as the ones of today, but full of grace.

[@philipkeeler9997]

It was his remarkable 'feel for the water'. Like phelps, he was gifted with the genetic morphology to transform efficient energy into motion. A legend in his own time that's for sure.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

@@philipkeeler9997 I was a kid and it was also the first Olympics I watched (you never forget your first). It was also a big deal in our home because my family's from Munich. Spitz, Korbut, Alexeev, Shorter, and the stolen basketball game was what I remember most. But Spitz was definitely the golden boy of those games.

[@kelperdude]

YT recommends a video that isn't available. Interesting.

[@biblicalworldview1]

Swimming without goggles at that speed is absolutely incredible!

[@tewfik8616]

It was worse than open water. Love the music.

[@donkeyidiot7537]

They didn't know to dive properly, present start of swimmer is awesomr

[@jan3zxx]

he looks strong by the way

[@PLeighG]

Looks like a thoroughbred

[@gabrieldodds9081]

Back when nobody wore goggles or swim caps

[@markjoseph196]

No dolphin kick 😊

[@danmaraderie]

is it just me or does he look like freddie mercury

[@vintage5729]

No goggles, no swimcaps.

[@scottlangridge3027]

Joe from family guy

[@Agwings1960]

And he did it with a mustache and underarm hair

[@triciajohansen7124]

And a full head of hair as well!!!

[@Juventinos]

look at those waves pffff

[@federalisticnewyorkians4470]

1:46 How's that a 100? There's no turn???

[@picklerick4140]

they just didn't show it or it was a 50

[@aidan7002]

@@picklerick4140 it wasn’t 50 they didn’t show it

[@picklerick4140]

@@aidan7002 ok

[@ThePerchance]

He was talented and very attractive 🥵 🔥

[@rahsek7246]

Hi guys you came early

[@marijannikolic289]

No glases

[@lekhai9407]

18/3/1995

[@jacquelinerussell8530]

USA USA USA 🇺🇲

[@stoolpigeon4285]

i can do a better dive that that at 4:42. His legs went in flat

[@aidan7002]

it was 50 years ago obviously it’s changed

[@kaptainamv7723]

☠

[@papawasawarrior]

No goggles!!

[@OlympicsAquatics]

Very old school!

[@martintamke]

The swimming is cut

[@larryhullinger4141]

He won seven gold medals not nine

[@gertrudlehmann4869]

Two in 1968 - the film says it all!

[@anthonyclarke5579]

@@gertrudlehmann4869 Correct!

[@chrisverby3047]

1968 he choked so badly. He really should have won both butterfly events. He was not beating Mike Wenden in the 100m freestyle, though. Wenden was unbearable in that event. Think about what Spitz's record would look like with those 2 individual golds.

[@davanmani556]

The training with James “Doc” Counsilman at IU was the key.

[@anthonyclarke5579]

Doc Counsilman told him straight, (after nerves got the better Spitz) "unless you win the 100 free no one will remember you". Spitz delivered.