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Won the Silver Medal 100 Butter Fly race in a three way tie at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics 2016.

Named the Men's Swimmer of the Year 2 times (2012 and 2016) by the International Swimming Federation (FINA).

Was photographed by a friend smoking marijuana at a party (February 2009).

Won 8 medals (8 Gold) in Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He became the first athlete in to win 8 gold medals at a single Olympics.

"Phelps Flys", winning 8 medals at the 2004 Olympics, was ranked #17 in TV Guide's list of the "25 Most Awesome Sports Moments (of the last 15 years)". [17 July 2005 issue]

Michael Fred Phelps II was born in Towson, Maryland, to Deborah Sue (Davisson), a middle school principal, and Michael Fred Phelps, a state trooper. Before the 2004 Olympics started, rumor had it that 19 year-old Phelps was thinking of trying to match or even surpass Mark Spitz's legendary seven gold medals record. By his fourth race with one gold and two bronze it was obvious he couldn't tie it but instead he could match Russian gymnast's Alexander Dityatin's record of eight medals in one Olympics. Every race after the two bronze he came away with gold. After his seventh race he did a truly noble thing by handing over his butterfly leg on the 4 x 200m Freestyle relay to Ian Crocker a temporary rival and now a friend. To everyone this was deemed the most selfless act of the games but to Michael it was just giving his team mate another chance. Throughout the entire week of competition he barely managed to sleep so when he finally got to rest he went to check out how the dominant women's teams were doing and enjoying the culture and atmosphere in Athens. The success in Athens was amazing.

Named the Men's World Swimmer of the Year 8 times (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2016) and Men's American Swimmer of the Year 11 times (2001,2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2016) by Swimming World Magazine.

His sister, Whitney Phelps, was a member of the 1995 World Championship team.

Siblings: 2 sisters, Whitney Phelps (born in 1978) and Hilary Phelps (born in 1980).

He surpassed fellow American, Mark Spitz's record of 7 gold medals, that were set in the 1972 Olympic Games, at Munich, Germany, 36 years earlier.

He was the youngest male Olympian since 1932 (he was only 15 when he made it in the 2000 Olympics).