Michael Phelps

University Of Michigan

Professional Swimmer

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Favorite Quote: Actions speak louder than words
Honors and Awards: 8 medals in the 2004 Olympics
Favorite Famous Swimmer: Pablo Morales
Hero(es): Michael Jordan, my mom
Personal Website: www.swimroom.com/phelps
Favorite Websites: www.swimwiththestars.com
Best Stroke/times: 200 fly - 1:52.0 100 fly - 50.7 400 im - 4:03 100 free - 47.5 200 free - 1:42.9
Most exciting race I've ever seen:
Swimming Goals: To elevate the sport of swimming
Favorite practice set:
Most painful workout: There have been too many to pick one
Years in swimming: 12
Greatest Swimming Moment: 4 x 200 free relay in Athens



Phelps was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in the Rodgers Forge neighborhood. He graduated from Towson High School in 2003. His father, Fred Phelps, worked for the Maryland State Police and his mother, Debbie Davisson Phelps, is a middle school principal. The two divorced in 1994. Michael, whose nickname is "MP", has two older sisters, Whitney and Hilary. Both of them were swimmers as well, with Whitney coming close to making the U.S. national team for the 1996 Summer Olympics before injuries derailed her career.

In his youth, Phelps was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). He started swimming at age seven, partly because of the influence of his sisters and partly to provide him with an outlet for his energy. He excelled as a swimmer, and by the age of 10 held a national record for his age group. More age group records followed, and Phelps' rapid improvement culminated in his qualifying for the 2000 Summer Olympics at the age of 15.

In November 2004, at the age of 19, Phelps was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in Salisbury, Maryland. He pleaded guilty to driving while impaired the following month and was granted probation before judgment and ordered to serve 18 months probation, fined $250, obligated to speak to high school students about drinking and driving and had to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) meeting. Questioned about the incident later that month by Matt Lauer on the Today Show, Phelps said it was an "isolated incident" and that he had "definitely let myself down and my family down...I think I let a lot of people in the country down."

Between 2004 and 2008, Phelps attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, studying sports marketing and management. In May 2008, Phelps said he intends to return to Baltimore following the 2008 Olympics, joining Bob Bowman there when he leaves the University of Michigan, saying, "I'm not going to swim for anybody else. I think we can both help the North Baltimore Aquatic Club go further. I'm definitely going to be in Baltimore next year." The club has announced that Bowman is leaving the University of Michigan to become the club's CEO.

Phelp's teammates call him "Gomer" because he reminds them of Gomer Pyle, the good-natured, naive country boy played by Jim Nabors.

He has made an estimated $5 million in endorsements, including a $1 million bonus from swimsuit maker Speedo for winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games.Physique and lifestyle

Five physical attributes particularly suit Phelps to swimming: his long, thin torso (low drag in the water), arms which span 6 feet 7 inches (201 cm) (long, powerful, propulsive "paddles") disproportionate to his height of 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm), relatively short legs (lower drag, and perhaps the speed enhancement of a hydrofoil), coupled to size 14 feet (providing the effect of flippers) by hypermobile ankles he can extend beyond the pointe of a ballet dancer, enabling him to whip his feet (as if they were fins, for maximum thrust through [if not over] the water).

In October 2007, Phelps slipped on a patch of ice and fell while climbing into a friend's car in Michigan, breaking his right wrist. Coach Bowman recalled that Phelps was in despair over the injury. For a few weeks after the surgery, he was confined to kicking in the pool with a kickboard while his teammates swam. However, this allowed Phelps to strengthen his legs, which may have allowed him to edge out Milorad Cavic in the 100 butterfly final for his seventh gold medal at the 2008 Olympics. In the last five meters, an exhausted Cavic was dragging his legs while Phelps used a strong kick to get his hands to the wall first, by a hundredth of a second.
In a front page illustrated article profiling Phelps on the eve of the 2008 Summer Olympics, The Baltimore Sun described the hometown swimmer as "a solitary man" with a "rigid focus" at the pool prior to a race, but afterwards "a man incredibly invested in the success of the people he cares about". Bowman told a Sun interviewer, "He's unbelievably kind-hearted", recounting Phelps's interaction with young children after practices.

According to an article in The Guardian, Phelps eats around 12,000 kcal each day, or about six times the intake of a normal adult male.

Early years

As a young teenager, Phelps trained at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club under coach Bob Bowman. At the age of 15, Phelps competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, becoming the youngest American male swimmer at an Olympic Games in 68 years. While he did not win a medal, he did make the finals and finished fifth in the 200 metre butterfly. Phelps proceeded to make a name for himself in swimming shortly thereafter. Five months after the Sydney Olympics, Phelps broke the world record in the 200 m butterfly to become, at 15 years and 9 months, the youngest man ever to set a swimming world record.He then broke his own record at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan by posting a time of 1:54.58. At the 2002 Summer Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Phelps also broke the world record for the 400 metre individual medley and set American marks in the 100 metre butterfly and the 200 metre individual medley.

In 2003, Phelps broke his own world record in the 400 metre individual medley (4:09.09) and in June, he broke the world record in the 200 m individual medley (1:56.04). Then on July 7, 2004, Phelps broke his own world record again in the 400 m individual medley (4:08.41) during the U.S. trials for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

In 2004, Phelps left North Baltimore Aquatic Club with Bob Bowman to train at the University of Michigan for Club Wolverine.

2000 Sydney Summer Olympic Games


Event Results Time
200 m Butterfly 5th place

01:56.50

At the age of fifteen, Phelps finished in fifth place, in what would be the first of his several trips to Australia.


2004 Athens Summer Olympic Games

Event Results Time
400 m individual medley Gold Medal, World Record 4:08.26
100 m butterfly Gold Medal, Olympic Record 51.25
200 m freestyle Bronze Medal, American Record 1:45.32
200 m butterfly Gold Medal, Olympic Record 1:54.04
200 m individual medley Gold Medal, Olympic Record 1:57.14
4 x 100 m freestyle relay Bronze Medal 3:14.62
4 x 200 m freestyle relay Gold Medal, American Record 7:07.33
4 x 100 m medley relay Gold Medal, World Record 3:30.68 2007 World Championships

At the 2007 World Championships, Phelps won seven gold medals, tying the record, and broke five world records. The 4x100 m medley relay team he would have competed with in the final received a disqualification for a false start during a changeover in the heats.

Event Results Time
200 m freestyle Gold Medal, World Record 1:43.86
100 m butterfly Gold Medal 50.77
200 m butterfly Gold Medal, World Record 1:52.09
200 m individual medley Gold Medal, World Record 1:54.98
400 m individual medley Gold Medal, World Record 4:06.22
4 x 100 m freestyle relay Gold Medal, Championship Record 3:12.72
4 x 200 m freestyle relay Gold Medal, World Record 7:03.24
4 x 100 m medley relay Did Not Compete (team disqualified in earlier heat)


2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games

Phelps represented the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He qualified to compete in three team and five individual events[2], swimming seventeen races in nine days[53] and winning the gold medal in all eight events:
Michael Phelps poses for a photo with U.S. President George W. Bush after Phelps won his first Olympic gold medal in the men's 400 meter individual medley.
Michael Phelps poses for a photo with U.S. President George W. Bush after Phelps won his first Olympic gold medal in the men's 400 meter individual medley.
Date (in Beijing) Event Results Time
August 10 400 m individual medley Gold Medal, World Record 4:03.84
August 11 4 x 100 m freestyle relay Gold Medal, World Record 3:08.24
August 12 200 m freestyle Gold Medal, World Record 1:42.96
August 13 200 m butterfly Gold Medal, World Record 1:52.03
August 13 4 x 200 m freestyle relay Gold Medal, World Record 6:58.56
August 15 200 m individual medley Gold Medal, World Record 1:54.23
August 16 100 m butterfly Gold Medal, Olympic Record 50.58
August 17 4 x 100 m medley relay Gold Medal, World Record 3:29.34



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