Michael Phelps was born June 30th 1985 in Baltimore ,Maryland.He is an american swimmer thats has won 16 olympic medals, six golds and two bronze at Athens 2004 and eight gold at Beijing in 2008, becoming the most successful athlete at the Olympic Games editions.
Phelp's international titles and record breaking performances has earned him the World Swimmer of the Year Award six times and the American Swimmer of the Year award eight times.
He has won a total of fifty-nine medals in major international competition, fifty gold, seven silver, and two bronze spanning the Olympics, the World, and the Pan Pacific Championships. His unprecedented Olympic success in 2008 earned Phelps Sports Illustrated magazine's Sportsman of the Year award.
Phelps currrently holds seven world records in the 200m butterfly, 400m individual medley, 4x100m medley relay, 200m individual medley, 100m butterfly , 4x100m fresstyle relay and 200m freestyle.
After the 2008 Beijing Olympics Michael started the Michael Phelps Foundation which focuses on growing the sport of swimming and promoting healthier lifestyles. He is regularly tested to ensure that his system is clean from performance henancing drugs , being a participant of the US Anti-Doping Agency 's "Project Believe" programme, after the controversy that he was using performance enhancing during the 2008 olympics as the media thought his feats were 'too good to be true' but he passed all the tests.
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