文档介绍：Michael Phelps
Name: Michael PHELPS
Date of birth: 30/06/85
Place of birth: Baltimore
Height: 193cm
Weight: 79 kg
Sport: Swimming
Born in Maryland on June 30, 1985, Michael Phelps started swimming when he was seven years old.
Michael whose nickname is "MP", has two older sisters, Whitney and Hilary. Both of them were swimmers as well,with
ing close to making the . national team for the 1996 Summer Olympics before injuries derailed her career.
He started swimming at age seven, mainly because of the influence of his sisters and partly because of improving his own energy. He excelled as a swimmer, and by the age of 10 held a national record for his age group. More age group records followed, and Phelps‘s rapid improvement culminated in his qualifying for the 2000 Summer Olympics at the age of 15. At the age of 15, peted at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, ing the youngest American male swimmer at an Olympic Games in 68 years. While he did not win a medal, he did make the finals and finished fifth in the 200 metres butterfly. Phelps proceeded to make a name for himself in swimming shortly thereafter. Five months after the Sydney Olympics, Phelps broke the world record in the 200 m butterfly to e the youngest man ever to set a swimming world record.
In China he's known as 'the Flying Fish'; in America they call him 'the Baltimore Bullet'. Whatever you call him, American swimmer Michael Phelps looks destined to e a household name across the world after breaking the Olympic record for most gold medals in a single Games. Phelps's total of eight golds in Beijing put him one ahead of Mark Spitz's previous tally set in 1972.
at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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