Michael Phelps
• He was born in Baltimore Maryland on
6/30/85. He began swimming when he was
7 years old.
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Michael Phelps
• His full name is Michael Fred Phelps
II.
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Michael Phelps
• His parents are Fred and Debbie Phelps. He
also has two sisters, Hilary and Whitney.
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Michael Phelps
• His father Fred was a state trooper and his
mother is a middle school teacher and got
named Maryland’s “Teacher of the year”.
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Michael Phelps
• Michael’s sister Hilary began swimming the
year Michael was born. He mostly watched
his sister practice and eventually started
swimming himself.
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Michael Phelps
• When he was even at the age of seven
Michael wouldn’t even put his face in the
water.
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Michael Phelps
• Michael’s swim instructor noticed
Michael’s fear of the water so he started by
getting him to float. Michael’s first stroke
he became great at was backstroke.
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Michael Phelps
• He began to dream at eleven years old of
being a champion when he saw Tom
Malchow and Tom Dolan compete. This
was in 1996 in Atlanta, at the summer
games.
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Michael Phelps
• Michaels parents were high school
sweethearts and split up before he was born.
They both got back together but in 1992
they got divorced. All the children went to
live with there mother.
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Michael Phelps
• To this day Michael is very close to his
mother but he rarely makes contact with his
dad.
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Michael Phelps
• When he is not swimming he likes video
games, music, football, and hanging out
with his English bulldog, Herman.
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Michael Phelps
• When he was 15 years old he placed 5th in
the 200-meter at the 2000 Olympics.
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Michael Phelps
• He was the youngest male that competed in
the Olympics since 1932.
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Michael Phelps
• He also was the youngest male to break a
world record at the 2001 spring nationals in
the U.S. at the age of 15 and 9 months.
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Michael Phelps
• He went to Towson high school and
because they didn’t have a swim team he
continued to play for the NBAC. By his
Junior year Michael was working out ten
times a week for swimming.
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Michael Phelps
• He graduated from Towson high school in
2003. While he was there he thought about
going out for the football team but ended up
being on the golf team.
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Michael Phelps
• Michael Phelps also became the first
swimmer to ever break 5 individual world
records at one meet. This meet was in 2003
at the World Championships in Barcelona.
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Michael Phelps
• He competed in the 2004 Olympics that was
help in Athens, Greece. He swam a total of
8 events.
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Michael Phelps
• The events he swam in the 2004 Olympics
was the 200 meter free, 100 and 200 meter
butterfly, the 200 and 400 individual
medley, the 200 and 400 free relay, and the
400 medley relay.
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Michael Phelps
• He placed in the 2004 Olympics by
receiving 8 medals.
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Michael Phelps
• There he received six gold medals and two
bronze medals.
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Michael Phelps
• He now sponsors the companies, Visa,
Speedo, Omega, Matsunichi.
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Michael Phelps
• Michael is 6-4 ft. tall and has a wingspan of
almost 80 inches. This puts him with having
a great sized body for a swimmer.
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Michael Phelps
• The stroke he is known for is the butterfly
but he is known to take the lead in every
event.
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Michael Phelps
• Michael practices 2-5 hours everyday in the
water. He also likes to do some weight
training but thinks stretching and swimming
is more beneficial.
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Michael Phelps
• One of the great things he is known for is
his endurance. He also doesn’t get nervous
before a race but shows a lot of passion
when he is on the starting block.
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Michael Phelps
• He enrolled in the University of Michigan
in 2005 after his coach Bowman got hired
to a varsity coaching job in Ann Arbor.
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Michael Phelps
• At the University of Michigan he began
working on a degree in sports marketing
and management.
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Michael Phelps
• In 2007 he was competing in the World
Championships in Melbourne, Australia.
There he won seven events which were also
all personal bests.
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Michael Phelps
• Michael would have also got an eighth gold
medal but his team mate Ian Crocker, for a
relay, left to early and they got disqualified.
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