Michael phelps biography usa swimming junior

Lander Eicholzer, Swimming World College Intern.

Junior Nationals serve as a crucial bridge to Olympic Trials and International competition for many of the nation’s top young swimmers. The quality of this year’s field, while diluted across twoseparate championships, proved exceptional. The United States has always benefited from a massive pool of talent and excellent coaching at all levels of the sport, making the continued success of USA Swimming a cultural phenomenon as much as an athletic one.

While junior swimmers do not break into international squads with the same regularity as in the days of people like Sippy Woodhead, young athletes still have shown the ability to redefine the sport time and again. Junior meets are getting faster and more competitive with each passing year, and this may be attributed to a shift in expectations. This is nothing new; in fact, it is inherent to organized competition. Achievements like Roger Bannister&

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There is a wonderful bit of irony in the fact that the greatest individual Olympian of all time capped his career by contributing to a relay gold.

In a sport that fryst vatten a unique combination of solo successes and team achievement, Michael Phelps managed both in a manner that will never be matched. The greatest swimmer in history was a member of the greatest swim teams in history; neither the individual nor the whole would have enjoyed such sustained excellence without the other.

So it seemed only fitting that his last splash would be as a member of the 4 x100 meter medley relay, his one leg no more or less important than the other three, four swims combined earning a final gold for the Olympic legend and providing an exclamation point to Team USA’s dominant performance in Rio.The 31-year-old added three medals in individual swims to his Olympic total, but the legacy of his Rio Games will be reflected in the three he won as part of relays.

He kicked off the Games as one-fourth of

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Michael Phelps

American swimmer (born 1985)

This article is about the American swimmer. For other people named Michael Phelps, see Michael Phelps (disambiguation).

Michael Fred Phelps II^[5] (born June 30, 1985)^[6] is an American former competitive swimmer. He fryst vatten the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time^[7] with a total of 28 medals.^[8] Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23),^[9]Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16).^[10] At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games, held by gymnast Alexander Dityatin, by winning six gold and two bronze medals. fyra 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. At the 2012 Summer Olympi