While swimming constitutes just a small portion of his incredible portfolio, no photographer has meant more to swimming history and the International Swimming Hall of Fame than Heinz Kluetmeier. From ...

With the Pan American Games scheduled to start this weekend, it seemed like an appropriate time to feature the launch of a legend. At the 1967 edition of the Pan Am Games, Mark Spitz made his name ...

It was the final night of swimming at the Olympics and the US topped the medal table again, with Caeleb Dressel taking home an incredible 5 golds. People have been swimming since the Stone Age, which ...

BEIJING, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Rundown of the seven finals raced by Mark Spitz for his seven gold medals and seven world records at the 1972 Munich Olympics: Sign up here. Aug 28 - 200 butterfly - 1.

Swimmer Mark Spitz, then an 18-year-old high school graduate from Santa Clara, Calif., returned from the 1968 Olympics with two gold medals, one silver and one bronze—and a feeling of failure. Goaded ...

Monday, Sept. 5, 2022 -- Mark Spitz's Olympic career remains forever intertwined with the 1972 massacre in Munich because of his unprecedented success in the swimming pool and because of his Jewish ...

BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Michael Phelps prepared to join Mark Spitz on his Olympic seven-gold pedestal when he won his sixth Beijing swimming title on Friday and then swept into his seventh final.