{"id":7081,"date":"2026-09-04T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:23:10","slug":"mark-spitz-in-1972-became-the-first-person-to-win-seven-gold-medals-in-one-olympic-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7081","title":{"rendered":"Mark Spitz in 1972 Became the First Person to Win Seven Gold Medals in One Olympic Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mark Spitz in 1972 became the first person to win seven gold medals in one Olympic competition<\/strong>. He received gold medals in: 100 meter freestyle, 200 meter freestyle, 4 X 100 meter freestyle relay, 4 X 200 meter freestyle relay, 100 meter butterfly, 200 meter butterfly, and 4 X 100 meter medley relay. His record lasted until Michael Phelps won eight gold medals in the 2008 Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Spitz in 1972 became the first person to win seven gold medals in one Olympic competition. He received gold medals in: 100 meter freestyle, 200 meter freestyle, 4 X 100 meter freestyle relay, 4 X 200 meter freestyle relay, 100 meter butterfly, 200 meter butterfly, and 4 X 100 meter medley relay. His record <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7081' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4426,1449,1448,1150,5833],"class_list":["post-7081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4426","tag-2008-olympics","tag-mark-spitz","tag-michael-phelps","tag-september-4","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10717,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions\/10717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}