BIOGRAPHY OF MICHAEL PHELPS
By kapuk on Nov 7, 2008 in Michael Phelps Bio
Full name: Michael Fred Phelps
Nickname(s): The Baltimore Bullet
Nationality: United States
Stroke(s): Butterfly, particular medley, freestyle, backstroke
Club: North Baltimore Aquatic Club
University of Michigan
Date of birth: Jun 30, 1985
Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Height: 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight: 200 pounds (91 kg)
Michael Phelps grew up in the Baltimore suburb of Towson, usually outward of Baltimore. Fred was a state trooper, and Debbie was a middle-school clergyman who was twice declared Maryland’s “Teacher of the Year.”. Michael Phelps’s mother, Debbie, is an director with the Baltimore County propagandize system. He has dual comparison sisters, and began swimming when they assimilated a internal float team. “At first, I was a small frightened to put my head underwater, so I proposed with the backstroke,” Phelps told Frank Litsky, a sportswriter for the New York Times, adding, “I was still frightened given I do not think I had goggles.”
One of the branch points for Michael came when he saw swimmers Tom Malchow and Tom Dolan contest at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta. The 11-year-old began to mental condition of apropos a hold up himself.
When Bowman told Phelps which he had Olympic potential, the twelve-year-old gave up his alternative sports, which were soccer, lacrosse, and baseball, in sequence to move all his appetite to each day pool practice. He began winning each rival eventuality he entered. The initial time he lost, however, he was so dissapoint which he threw down his goggles. Bowman warned him about his unsportsmanlike conduct, and given afterwards Phelps has taken his handful of setbacks in stride.
“It’s when your physique is not in the most appropriate situation, your mind is not in the most appropriate incident and things have been opposite you those have been the times which unequivocally equate and unequivocally make a difference you strike and climb to the occasion.”
Focus was never a complaint for Michael in the pool. He outlayed hour after hour in the water. In school, however, Michael stuggled at times. He was diagnosed with ADHD after his ninth birthday. Michael worked with Debbie to strike the condition.
American swimmer Michael Phelps has won 14 Olympic bullion and 2 bronze 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.
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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