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- butterfly, 400-meter free-
- style relay, 800-meter
- freestyle relay, and 400-
- meter medley relay. Mark
- was the first swimmer ever
- to win more than five gold medals and the first
- athlete ever to win seven gold medals in a
- single Olympics.
-
- Mark was born in California. His family moved
- to Hawaii when he was 2. He learned to swim
- at world-famous Waikiki Beach, in Honolulu,
- Hawaii. He swam there every day from the
- time he was 2 until his family moved back to
- the mainland when he was 6.
-
- By then, Mark was an excellent swimmer
- for his age. He started swimming
- competitively at the age of 8. When he
-