BIOGRAPHY OF MICHAEL PHELPS
By kapuk on Nov 7, 2008 in Michael Phelps Bio
American swimmer Michael Phelps has won 14 Olympic bullion medals, some-more than any one in history. He has a career sum of sixteen medals: He won a conspicuous eight bullion medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing (breaking the jot down of 7 bullion medals set by swimmer Mark Spitz in 1972), and 6 bullion and dual bronze at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Phelps was usually fifteen when he done the American group for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. (He placed fifth in the 200 scale butterfly, but his coming there done him the youngest masculine Olympian given 1932, when 14-year-old Japanese swimmer Kusuo Kitamura won the 1500-meter freestyle at Los Angeles.)
For the 2008 Olympics he competent in eight events and won bullion medals in each event, together with universe annals in the 400 scale Individual Medley and the 200 scale Freestyle.
- Full name: Michael Fred Phelps
- Nickname(s): The Baltimore Bullet
- Nationality: United States
- Date of birth: June 30, 1985 (1985-06-30) (age 23)
- Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Height: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
- Weight: 200 pounds (91 kg)
- Stroke(s): Butterfly, Individual Medley, Freestyle, Backstroke
- Club: Club Wolverine,
- University of Michigan
Phelps’s featured item is the shorter races, 100 to 400 meters in length. His records, universe annals and awards have been roughly as well countless to mention: he set his initial universe jot down at age fifteen (the 200 scale moth at the 2001 U.S. Spring Nationals), was declared USA Swimmer of the Year 6 times in between 2001 and 2007, and set an rare five particular universe annals at in one encounter at the 2003 universe championships in Barcelona.
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