Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps is an American swimmer. He is the one who holds the record for the most Olympics medals, which are won by any athlete at 28, including 13 individual golds and 23 gold medals. Phelps competed in his first Olympics at just the age of 15 as part of the United State's men's swim team. He was the first American male swimmer to be selected for five Olympic teams, and he also created history by becoming the oldest individual gold medallist in Olympic swimming history at the age of 28. Michael Phelps' date of birth is June 30, 1985.

Michael Phelps Biography

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Early Life and Family

Michael Phelps' date of birth is June 30, 1985. His birth place is Baltimore, Maryland. He is the youngest of three children who grew up in the neighborhood of Rodgers Forge. Fred, his father, is a former state trooper and all-around athlete. Debbie, his mother, was a middle-school principal. When Phelps' parents split in 1994, he and his sisters moved home with their mother, with whom he had a close relationship.

Phelps began swimming when his two elder sisters, named Whitney (born in 1978), Hilary (born in 1980) joined a local swim team. Whitney tried out for the United States Olympic team when she was 15 years old in 1996, but her career was cut short due to injuries. Still, when he was 7, Phelps was "a little scared" to put his head underwater, so his instructors allowed him to float around on his back. The backstroke was, predictably, the first stroke he learned.

Phelps began to aspire to be a champion after seeing Tom Dolan and Tom Malchow compete at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. At the pool of Loyola High School, he began his swimming career. He met his coach, Bob Bowman, there when he began training at the Meadowbrook Aquatic & Fitness Center's North Baltimore Aquatic Club. Immediately, the coach recognized Phelps' talents and fierce sense of competition. Then, he began an intense training regime together. Phelps has made the National B Team of the United States by 1999.

Height

Phelps is under 6 feet and 4 inches tall. He possesses an abnormally enormous wingspan, measuring just under 6 feet 7 inches from tip to tip, and a body that measures, the more prevalent in a guy of 6 feet 8 inches in height.

Top Speed

In the 100-meter butterfly at the 2009 World Championships, when he broke the world record, Phelps swam at an astonishingly speedy (or at least by the human standards) 5.5 miles per hour. ESPN has put the top swimming speed of Phelps at 6 miles per hour.

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University of Michigan

Phelps has followed his coach to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where Bowman has coached the swim team of Wolverines to study sports marketing and management. In the meanwhile, Phelps continued to establish world records at the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships in British Columbia, Victoria, and the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, located in Australia.

2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney

At 15, Phelps became the youngest American male swimmer to compete in the Olympic Games in 68 years. While he did not win a medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney - Australia, he would become a major force soon in competitive swimming.

First World Records

Let us know some details about Michael Phelps’s short biography. During the 2001 - spring, Phelps set the world record in the 200-meter butterfly by becoming the youngest male swimmer in history (at the age of 15 years and 9 months) to set the world swimming record ever.

Then, Phelps broke his own record at the 2001 World Championships league in Fukuoka, Japan, with a time of 1:54:58, bagging his first international medal.

At the 2002 United States Summer Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Phelps continued to smash new records, setting a new world record for the 400-meter individual medley and US marks in the 100-meter butterfly and 200-meter individual medley. He created a new world record in the 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4:09.09 the following year at the same event.

Shortly in 2003, after graduating from Towson, 17-year-old Phelps set 5 world records, including the 200-meter individual medley at the World Championships located in Barcelona, Spain, with a time record of 1:56:04. Then during the United States' trials for the 2004 Summer Olympics, again, he broke his own world record in the 400-meter individual medley, with a time record of 4:08:41.

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The above figure is all about - On July 2, 2016, at CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Michael Phelps competed in the last heat for the 100 Meter Butterfly of Mens on day 7 of the 2016 United States Olympic Team Swimming Trials.

2004 Summer Olympics in Athens

Phelps became a superstar at the 2004 Olympic Games, conducted in Athens, Greece, for winning 8 medals (with 6 gold, included), tying with Soviet gymnast Aleksandr Dityatin (1980) for the most medals in a single Olympic Games.

Phelps won his first of 6 gold medals, on August 14, by breaking the self world mark in the 400 m individual medley, by shaving 0.15 seconds off his previous recorded performance. Also, he won gold in the 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter individual medley, 200-meter butterfly, 4-by-100-meter medley relay, 4-by-200-meter freestyle relay). The two events that happened in Athens, where Phelps took bronze medals, were the 4-by-100-meter freestyle relay and the 200-meter freestyle.

2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing

At the 2008 Olympic Games, located in Beijing, China, Phelps won his 14th career gold medal, which is the most gold won by any Olympian — surpassing the swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of 7 golds. Also, he set the record for the most gold medals that are won in a single Olympics by winning 8 gold medals in the 4-by-100-meter freestyle relay, 4-by-100-meter medley relay, 200-meter butterfly, 200-meter freestyle, 200-meter individual medley, 4-by-200-meter freestyle relay and 100-meter butterfly. Except for the 100-meter butterfly, which established an Olympic record, he set a new world record in every gold medal performance.

2012 Summer Olympics in London

At the 2012 Olympic Games, which were held in London, the Olympic medal count of Phelps increased to 22, setting a new record for most of the Olympic medals (beating gymnast Larisa Latynina before the record of 18). He won 4 gold medals in the 4-by-200-meter freestyle relay, 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter individual medley and 4-by-100-meter medley relay, and two silver medals in the 200-meter butterfly and 4-by-100-meter freestyle relay.

Temporary Retirement in 2012

After the London Olympics was conducted in 2012, Phelps announced he was retiring from swimming. However, he gave an indication of a possible return in July 2013 and would not rule out the possible Olympic bid for the 2016 summer games. Phelps put the retirement rumours to bed in April 2014 when he revealed his plans to race in the Mesa Grand Prix in Arizona.

Meanwhile, speculation raged in the sports world over whether Phelps will compete in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

While Phelps did not compete in the Mesa Grand Prix, he had a strong performance at the Pan Pacific Championships in Australia that summer, winning three gold medals and two silver medals.

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The above figure represents Michael Phelps competing in the Final of the 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay of Men on Day 2 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games located at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium on August 7 - 2016, conducted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is a short and clear description of Michael Phelps short biography.