Height:1.94m.

Weight: 79 kg

Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland.

Training location: Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Date of birth:1June 30, 985 (Cancer)

Club: Wolverine Club.

University: University of Michigan (2008)

Coach: Bob Baumann.

Major: sports management

Family members: Father Fred is a policeman, mother Debbie is a teacher, and two sisters, Hillary and Whitney (1995 members of the US national swimming team at the World Championships).

Nickname: MP

Pets: pet cats

Hobbies: video games, Nokia MP3, Opus MP4, watching TV.

Relaxation mode: sleep

Favorite place to go: Australia

Favorite sport: football

Favorite sport: basketball.

Favorite movie: Tommy Boy.

Favorite TV program: Sports Center.

Favorite food: pizza.

Favorite actor: Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. ..

Favorite actress: Cameron Diaz.

Favorite athlete: Michael Jordan.

Favorite band: 50 points (50 cents)

Favorite pre-game meal: cereal and energy bar

Favorite snack: cookies.

Favorite cereal: lucky one.

Favorite book: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

The most unforgettable thing: meeting with boxing champion Ali

Sponsors: Speedoo, Visa, Mortgage, Omega, Wheaties, Powerbar), (Matusnichi, Asahi Shimbun.

Training status: training for 2-5 hours a day, 6-7 days a week.

Michael phelps is regarded by some people as the greatest all-around athlete in sports history. In the American trials in 2004, Phelps qualified for six individual swimming events in Athens Olympic Games, including all possible swimming positions. He finally won six Olympic gold medals and two bronze medals. If Phelps can reach the record held by mark spitz in Athens or Beijing in 2008, he can get 654.38 million+00,000 from the sponsors.

Michael phelps was born on1June 30th, 985. His father is an excellent athlete and passed on this talent to his children. Although he hesitated at first, Michael finally followed his two sisters into the swimming pool. His coach realized Michael's fear and allowed him to float on his back. Not surprisingly, his first swimming position was backstroke.

Michael's coach told Michael's mother that her son was a rare swimming genius. He has slender limbs, big hands and feet, can understand the guidance well, likes to train hard, and never seems to feel nervous during the game. People say that his body is a natural swimmer. His big hands and feet are like paddles in the water. Although butterfly is his specialty, he has shown his advantages in various competitions. In fact, Michael just ".

At the 1999 American Junior Games, Michael broke the record of 20-year-old group in the 200m butterfly. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, Michael participated in the Sydney Olympic Games as the youngest Olympic swimmer in the United States in 68 years. During the World Swimming Championships held in Barcelona, Spain, Michael became the talk of the swimming world. He won six medals for his outstanding performance. And set five world records. Michael won the gold medal in the 200m butterfly with a new world record, and set new records in the100m butterfly and 200m individual medley-these records were set on the same day, which is the first time in the history of the world swimming competition.

Apart from swimming, Michael is an ordinary teenager. He usually sleeps with his cat Savannah, who sleeps next to him. He doesn't want to get up in the morning, but once he starts a day's work, he won't be lazy.

Michael's goal is not only to win honor in the Olympic Games, but also to change his sports activities, just as great athletes like Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods once did.

1997, when michael phelps 1 1 years old, his coach bowman found that he had the qualities of an Olympic champion.

Bowman said, "You will see him jump into the water eagerly. He put far more pressure on himself than others asked. I tried not to look happy, although I was surprised by his performance. "

Bowman noticed that Phelps could easily learn skills that other teenagers could not master. The coach knew that he was facing a swimming genius, so he said to Phelps' parents, "Michael has excellent talent and unlimited potential."

Phelps outside the swimming pool is a typical leisure teenager. He likes hip-hop rock, plays computer games and goes out with friends. In 2003, he graduated from Dawson High School in Maryland and planned to go to college after the Olympic Games.

However, once Phelps jumped into the pool, he was no longer the ordinary teenager. He is 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 185 pounds. He has no fat on him. He swims in the water like a fish. His kicking is very powerful, as if he had an engine on his leg.

Lenny, an American backstroker who won three gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games? Creze Berg said, "I have never met anyone like him. No one is as good as him. "

Phelps attributed most of his success to training. After graduating from high school, most of the time, I started training for two and a half hours at 7: 00 in the morning, took a nap after lunch, and then went swimming from 3: 30 to 6: 00 in the afternoon.

In short, he swims 12 miles every day. He said, "I know no one trains harder than me."

Phelps trains so hard because he hates failure. He started swimming at the age of seven, but he didn't take the sport seriously until 1 1 year-old coach Bowman talked with his parents.

He recalled: "If I didn't play my best, I would always think about it and be with my friends at school." This will drive me crazy. "

Once, 12-year-old Phelps lost to a boy of the same age. He angrily grabbed each other's goggles and threw them across the platform of the swimming pool. Coach Bowman told him that if he lost to a child of his own age next time, he would not allow similar behavior. Bowman said: "He overcame this bad habit because he never lost to any swimmer of his age."

Michael phelps is the best all-around swimmer in the world today. 15 years old, rose to the world swimming world. At that time, he became the youngest swimmer to be selected for the American Olympic swimming team and won the fifth place in the 200-meter butterfly at the Sydney Olympic Games. After that, Phelps began an amazing journey to snatch gold and silver in the world swimming pool.

At 200 1, Phelps broke the world record in the 200m butterfly, becoming the youngest world record holder and gaining the reputation of "child prodigy". In the same year, he won the first world champion in his career at the Fukuoka World Championships. In 2003, Phelps broke the world record five times at the World Championships in Barcelona and stood on the highest podium four times, creating another feat of the same competition. He successfully defended the 200-meter butterfly champion in the competition, and also won the 200-meter and 400-meter individual medley gold medals, which set a world record. In addition, he won the gold medal in the medley relay and set a new world record in the 100 meter butterfly semi-final, but lost to teammate Crocker in the final. With such an excellent record, Phelps was rightly named the world's best male swimmer in 2003.

Phelps won seven gold medals at the 2007 Melbourne World Championships, breaking Thorpe's record of six gold medals at one World Championships, and he also broke five world records. By the end of 2007, he had won 20 medals in the World Championships, surpassing Australian Hackett to become the player with the most medals in the history of the World Championships.

In 2008, the men's 400-meter mixed race won the individual championship in the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing.

On August 9th, 2008, Michael Phelps, an American swimming prodigy, won the first place in the 400-meter individual medley heat with a time of 4: 07.82, and broke his own Olympic record of 4: 08.26 in Athens. In the final, it broke the world record again.

The men's 400-meter individual medley heat of the Olympic Games was held on the morning of August 9th, 2008 10. In the preliminaries, Hungarian Laszlo Cseh and Italian luca marin were the main competitors of this talented American player.

Mark spitz, a former American swimmer, won seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. In order to break the record of seven gold medals in a single Olympic Games that has been silent for 36 years, Phelps said: "I have already said that I just want to be the first michael phelps, not the second mark spitz!"

On August 3rd, 2008, in the men's 200m butterfly final of 29th Beijing Olympic Games, he won the Olympic gold medal 10.

In the men's 4X200 freestyle relay final of the 29th Beijing Olympic Games on August 3rd, 2008, the United States set a new world record with a time of 6 minutes 58.56 seconds. Phelps also won his fifth gold medal in this Olympic Games, and his first 1 1 gold medal in the Olympic Games, becoming the player who won the most gold medals in the history of the Olympic Games. The previous record of the total number of Olympic gold medals was held by nurmi, a Finnish flying man, at the three Olympic Games: 1920, 1924 and 1928. Shpits, Lewis and Latina also hold the record of nine gold medals.

Major achievements

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Fifth place in the 200-meter butterfly at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games;

200 1 world champion in the 200m butterfly and broke the world record (1:54.58);

In 2002, Pan-Pacific Championship won the 200m and 400m individual medley, the 200m butterfly runner-up, the 4×100m medley relay champion and broke the world record (3:33.48), and the 4× 200m freestyle relay runner-up;

In 2003, he won the world championship in 200m butterfly, 200m, 400m individual medley and 4x100m medley relay, and broke the world record five times.

Men's 200m and 400m individual medley, 65,438+000m butterfly, 4× 200m freestyle relay and 4× 65,438+000m medley relay won gold medals at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, which missed the 200m freestyle relay and 4× 65,438+000m freestyle relay held by Shpits at the last Olympic Games.

Men's 200-meter freestyle champion in 2004 short-course world championships.

In 2006, he won the men's 400m individual medley and 4x200m freestyle relay, the men's 200m butterfly relay and 4x100m freestyle relay, and broke the world record (3: 12.46) and the 200m individual medley champion and the world record (1: 55.84).

Champion of the 200-meter and 400-meter medley at the 2007 World Swimming Championships; 100 meter and 200 meter butterfly champion; 200 m freestyle champion; 4×100m, 4× 200m freestyle relay champion.

In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, in the men's 400-meter individual medley final, he broke his own world record of 4: 03.84 and won the gold medal in this event. On August 1 1, Beijing time, in the men's 4x 100 freestyle relay, he set a new world record in 3 minutes 08.24 seconds and won the second gold medal. Phelps won the 200-meter freestyle champion again, won the third gold medal and set a new world record again; In the men's 200m butterfly final, Phelps won his fourth gold medal in this Olympic Games. In the men's 4× 200m freestyle relay, the United States broke the world record in 6 minutes 58.56 seconds and won the championship. Phelps won his first gold medal in this Olympic Games.