MICHAEL FRED PHELPS
Flying Fish
Here's a timeline of Michael Phelps's Career
- - Born June 30th, 1985 in Baltimore, US.
- - qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics at the age of 15, as he became the youngest male to make a U.S. Olympic swim team in 68 years.
- - At the World Championship Trials for the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, on March 30, Phelps broke the world record in the 200-meter butterfly to become, at 15 years and 9 months, the youngest male ever to set a world record in swimming.
- - He became the first American swimmer to win three different races in three different strokes at a national championship
- - winning six gold and two bronze medals, Phelps, still a teenager, had the second-best performance ever at a single Olympics with a tough competition from fellow American swim mate Ian Crocker
- - wins 8 gold medals making him the most medals won in a single Olympic meet in history.
- - Phelps concluded the 2012 Olympics as the most successful swimmer of the meet for the third Olympics in a row.After his last event, the international swimming federation FINA honored Phelps with an award commemorating his standing as the most decorated Olympian ever.
- - After the 2012 Olympics, Phelps retired from swimming.
- - Phelps was reportedly motivated by the national team's failure to win the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay since their Beijing 2008 and Rome 2009 titles.
- - Phelps ended his career with 23 gold medals at the Olympics and his 28 Olympic medals overall.
Michael's praise
Epic. It goes to show you that not only is this guy the greatest swimmer of all time and the greatest Olympian of all time, he's maybe the greatest athlete of all time. He's the greatest racer who ever walked the planet. (2008)
—Mark Spitz
on Phelps winning his 7th gold medal
I may regret saying this, but I kind of wish Michael Phelps was kind of a little bit older,it would have challenged me. I would have had someone else there.
- Ian Thorpe
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Michael Phelps's Legacy
Michael Phelps is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished athletes of all time. He captured more Olympic medals, World Championships, US National Titles, and world records than any other swimmer in history.