Olympic achievements of Michael Phelps

Of course, Phelps also wanted to meet Bowman’s challenge and set the first world record of his career. There are profiles of past athlete champions from a large range of sports. See also profiles of Olympic athletes and pages about sporting heroes. The hammerhead shark swam the distance at 15 miles per hour, while the great white shark swam at a whopping 26 miles per hour. Phelps only beat the reef shark by 0.2 seconds, clocking in at 6 miles per hour. In a huddle with his teammates following the race, Phelps felt the emotion of the moment, according to the New York Times.

Summer Olympics in Beijing

The same magazine honored him with the ‘American Swimmer of the Year Award’ nine times (from 2001 to 2004, 2006 to 2009, and 2012). Just when everything seemed to be perfect, Phelps fractured his right wrist by accidentally falling on to a patch of ice. However, not the one to give up easily, he practiced using a kickboard. His practice sessions using a kickboard turned out to be beneficial as Phelps ended up adding a little more strength to his kicks. Phelps went on to perform well in the following years as he excelled in the sport and drew limelight at national and international levels. Following the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, Phelps dedicated four years to rigorous training at the University of Michigan, foregoing formal education for the time being.

• But over the back half, Phelps had too much in reserve and the showdown became known as the coronation of a man who would emerge as the Face of Swimming for more than a decade, and the greatest Olympian of all-time.

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• After watching Tom Malchow and Tom Dolan compete in the 1996 ‘Summer Games’ in Atlanta, Phelps started dreaming about making it big in swimming.

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• Phelps was just 15 years old when he made his Olympic debut at the 2000 Games in Sydney.

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• It was in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, that Phelps truly emerged as a force to be reckoned with.
• Phelps wore a monofin to approximate the movements of a shark (and get a bit of added propulsion).

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• Phelps began to aspire to be a champion after seeing Tom Dolan and Tom Malchow compete at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta.

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Called the next Mark Spitz

Phelps has said that he would sleep at least 8 hours per night, and take a 2 to 3 hour nap during the day. He followed Bowman from Maryland to the University of Michigan in 2004 when Bowman was named head coach of the school’s varsity swimming program. It also promotes the importance of planning and goal-setting in life. He has an arm span that is 6 feet and 7 inches, 3 inches longer than his height, helping him to excel in swimming and break numerous records. ‘The Golden Goggle Awards,’ which was initiated in 2004 by the ‘USA Swimming Federation,’ has honored Phelps several times in various categories.

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Rio 2016

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With each Olympics, he continuously pushed the boundaries of what was thought possible in the sport. At Rio in 2016, Phelps won an additional six medals with five gold medals, extending his Olympic best marks to 28 medals and 23 gold medals, marks that may never be approached. For the 2017’s Shark Week, Michael Phelps raced several breeds of sharks. The team developed a special device to measure each shark’s speed using bait. Phelps wore a monofin to approximate the movements of a shark (and get a bit of added propulsion).

Interestingly, Speedo issued a bonus for him if he managed to tie the record; and he went ahead, winning one more gold medal to bring his tally to eight. At the 2004 Games in Athens, the birthplace of the Olympics, Phelps embraced an eight-event schedule that resulted in eight medals – six gold and two bronze. A world record in the 400 individual medley launched his efforts in Greece, which also included solo titles in the 200 IM, 100 butterfly and 200 fly. A bronze was earned in the 200 freestyle, where Phelps challenged himself on the turf of legends look at these guys Ian Thorpe and Pieter van den Hoogenband. Throughout Michael Phelps’s Olympics journey, He amassed an astonishing total of 28 medals, making him the most decorated Olympian of all time. Of these 28 medals, 23 are gold, three are silver, and two are bronze.