The Americans were the first team to break the seven-minute mark in the relay, and broke the previous record, set in Melbourne, Australia, by more than four and a half seconds. [219], After the 2012 Olympics, Phelps retired from swimming, stating: "I'm done. 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(Seriously. [115] In his second event, the 400-meter individual medley, Phelps easily won with a time of 4:10.47, 3.38 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Robert Margalis. [177] After his loss in the 200-meter freestyle, many thought Phelps was vulnerable coming into the final for the 100-meter butterfly. Phelps also captured five titles at the U.S. summer nationalsthe most won by a male swimmer at a single championship. [44], At the World Championship Trials for the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, on March 30, Phelps broke the world record in the 200-meter butterfly to become, at 15 years and 9 months, the youngest male ever to set a world record in swimming. [33] Phelps has said Bowman reminded him of a drill sergeant because of his disciplined and regimented ways. Phelps swam the lead-off leg in 48.08, the second-best lead-off in the field behind James Magnussen's 47.49. Phelps competed in his first Olympics at the age of 15, as part of the U.S. men's swim team. [38] After the 2008 Summer Olympics, Bowman returned to Baltimore as CEO at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club. [95][96][97][98][99], At the 2005 World Aquatics Championships, Phelps won a total of six medals, five golds and one silver. [269] They met in 2007 at the ESPYs, broke up in 2012, reconciled, and got engaged in February 2015. [147] In this race, Phelps became the fifth Olympic athlete in modern history to win nine gold medals, joining Mark Spitz, Larisa Latynina, Paavo Nurmi, and Carl Lewis.[148]. [221] In May 2014, he won the 100-meter butterfly event at the Arena Grand Prix in Charlotte, North Carolina. It goes to show you that not only is this guy the greatest swimmer of all time and the greatest Olympian of all time, he's maybe the greatest athlete of all time. [232][233] Phelps was also voted by the U.S. Olympic swim team as one of six team captains for the US delegation to the Olympics. I'd like to be that guy", avi said. [150] Moreover, Phelps became the first swimmer, male or female, to win three Olympic butterfly titles, after his two titles in the Athens 2004 Olympics. The 4100-meter medley relay team received a disqualification for a false start during a changeover in the heats, ending Phelps's chance of eight gold medals.[129]. I'm done. [286] As a result, USA Swimming suspended him from all competitions for six months, and stated he would not be chosen to represent the United States at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in August. [32] Bowman swam for Florida State University from 1983 to 1985. "It'd be good for him if he loses. [53], At the 2003 World Aquatics Championships, Phelps won four gold medals, two silver medals, and broke five world records. Times. Get some calories into my system and try to recover the best I can, Phelps said at the time. In the 100-meter butterfly, Phelps finished first in a time of 50.86, a championship record. [243] At age 31, the victory made Phelps not only the oldest male champion,[244] but also the oldest individual champion in Olympic swimming history,[245] beating the records set by Duke Kahanamoku in 1920, and Inge de Bruijn in 2004 respectively. The hammerhead shark swam the distance at 15 miles per hour, while the great white shark swam at a whopping 26 miles per hour. [216] After two very close victories in the 100 m butterfly at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics (by 0.04 and 0.01 sec, respectively), in this race Phelps beat Le Clos and Yevgeny Korotyshkin, who tied for silver, by 0.23 sec. [283] He pleaded guilty to driving while impaired and was sentenced to serve 18 months of probation, fined $250, ordered to speak to high school students about drinking and driving, and to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) meeting. . Phelps has set 39 world records, the most of all time. Phelps swam a 51.10 (also under his former world record), but had to settle for silver. [105] On July 29, Phelps, along with Ryan Lochte, Peter Vanderkaay and Klete Keller, won the gold in the 4200-meter freestyle relay with a time of 7:06.58. "[220], In April 2014, Phelps announced he would come out of retirement, and would enter an event later that month. In his second event, the 200-meter freestyle, Phelps won silver for the second consecutive time at a World Aquatics Championships. Thats all I can do. [18] He attended Rodgers Forge Elementary, Dumbarton Middle School, and Towson High School. ", The experience prompted him to seek help, and Phelps said he came to realize that"it's OK to not be OK," though he acknowledged there was still a stigma associated with mental illness. We're competing to do everything we can to try to win a medal or to try to do our country proud by wearing the stars and stripes on international ground," he told Axelrod. At the age of 15, Phelps qualified for the 2000 Olympics. His retirement came just days after finishing his fifth Olympics with five golds and a silver medal. "[35] After the 2004 Summer Olympics, Bowman was hired as the head coach for the University of Michigan after Jon Urbanchek retired. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. [193] Phelps did not swim in the B final of the 400-meter individual medley. He finished fifth in the 200-metre butterfly at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. He broke his first world record at the age of 15, less than a year after his first Olympic performance. [144] Teammate Jason Lezak, after beginning the anchor leg more than half a body length behind Alain Bernard, managed to finish ahead of the favored French swimmer by eight hundredths of a second. [207] During the trials, Phelps finished first in the 200-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter butterfly, 200-meter individual medley, and second in the 400-meter individual medley. Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion, 2019, to recognize his advocacy for people with disabilities and his own journey with mental health. "[265], Phelps is an avid golfer, and has competed in numerous amateur and pro-am golf tournaments; he considered becoming a professional golfer after retiring from swimming. [276] Thorpe was in the stands for the 4100-meter medley relay, where Phelps was swimming for his eighth Olympic gold medal. [172] For his second race, the 200-meter freestyle, Phelps lost his first race in four years to Germany's Paul Biedermann. London 2012 was also astonishing he got four golds and two silvers while Rio 1016 saw him stage a historic comeback (he had decided to retire after London), aged 31, to bag five gold medals and one silver. [293] The Foundation has since developed two other programs, Level Field Fund-Swimming and Caps-for-a-Cause. He became the youngest male to make a U.S. Olympic swim team in 68 years. [18], In February 2009, a photograph of Phelps using a bong went viral; this resulted in the loss of the Kellogg's as a sponsor, as well as a three-month suspension by USA Swimming. He is widely regarded as the greatest swimmer of all time and is often considered to be one of the greatest athletes of all time. [136] In his sixth and final event, the 100-meter butterfly, Phelps won with a time of 50.89. [132] In his second event, the 200-meter freestyle, Phelps won with a time of 1:44.10, ahead of Peter Vanderkaay's time 1:45.85. [13] At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,[14] his fifth Olympics, he was selected by his team to be the flag bearer of the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations. Honestly, were kind of taking it day by day. Phelps has accumulated a total of 28 medals at the Olympic Summer Games in Athens, Beijing, London and Rio 23 gold, three silver and two bronze setting the record for the most medal wins by any Olympic athlete. Four years later, when he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, he broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. Michael Phelps Team USA Swimming. Two days later, in the 200-meter individual medley, Phelps finished first with a time of 1:57.14, an Olympic record. On Saturday night, the 31-year-old won his record twenty-eight Olympic medal with 23 of them gold. Phelps is considered one of the greatest Olympians of all time.[261][262][263]. This time Phelps wanted to swim for himselfand enjoy the journey". [75], In his first event, the 400-meter individual medley, Phelps won his first Olympic gold medal in the world record time of 4:08.26. Phelps argued his program was too crowded to compete in 100-meter freestyle and was at least among the top four swimmers because he had beaten the top-seeded Jason Lezak the last time he had swum against him. [141][142] This swim went on to become the longest men's world record to stand in long course meters, beating Germany's Otto Farr who held the 100 backstroke world record from 1912 until 1926. They did not swim the 100 meters side by side but rather individually in the same open water, with CGI images of the sharks displayed alongside Phelps as he raced. He tied Spitzs record by winning the 100-metre butterfly final by 0.01 second and broke the mark as a member of the victorious American 4 100-metre medley relay team. All told, Phelps set world records in all but one (the 100-metre butterfly) of his eight gold medal-winning events. ", "Michael Phelps' other claim to fame? Phelpss retirement was short-lived, as he announced his return to competitive swimming in April 2014. I'm not going to swim for anyone else. [324] On April 9, 2009, Phelps was invited to appear before the Maryland House of Delegates and the Maryland Senate, to be honored for his Olympic accomplishments.[325]. This isn't normal, and it gives Phelps an advantage as a swimmer. [267], Bob Bowman described Phelps as "a solitary man"[268] with a "rigid focus"[18] at the pool prior to a race, but afterward "a man incredibly invested in the success of the people he cares about". [9][252] With that 13th individual gold medal, Phelps broke an ancient Olympic record, set by Leonidas of Rhodes, who had held the most Olympic individual titles of all time, with twelve. At the U.S. spring nationals in 2003, he became the first male swimmer to claim titles in three different strokes at a single national championship, and he later broke an unprecedented five individual world records at the world championships in Barcelona, Spain. His then-girlfriend Nicole Johnson, their baby, Boomer, and Phelps' mother Debbie watched the Olympic legend break history from the stands in Rio. His father, Fred, an all-around athlete, was a state trooper and his mother, Debbie, was a middle-school principal. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Phelps captured six gold medals (200-metre and 400-metre IM, 100-metre and 200-metre butterfly, 4 200-metre freestyle relay, and 4 100-metre medley relay) and two bronze medals (200-metre freestyle and 4 100-metre freestyle relay) while setting five Olympic or world records. You can't put a limit on anything. Even though Phelps competed in the backstroke in international competition only once (at the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships), he was among the best backstroke swimmers in the world. Afterwards, Thorpe said "I'm really proud of him not just because he won eight golds. Crocker won in a time of 50.76, a world record and 0.39 seconds ahead of Phelps. So once I retire I want to travel and see what places are really about.

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