MICHAEL PHELPS

MICHAEL PHELPS

For one of our tasks this week we had to choose a famous person to research... I choose Michael Phelps;

Michael Fred Phelps is a well known swimmer for his amount of world records broken and new times set. He is also know as the most decorated Olympian of all time from where he won 22 medals at the 2012 Olympics. He is currently 29 years old and was born June 30th. He competed in his first Olympics when he was 15.

Michael has been retired since 2012, but has said that he will possibly come back and compete in the 2016 Olympics. He is a very strong swimmer but his best strokes are Backstroke, Butterfly, Freestyle and individual medley. He's the long course record holder for 100m Butterfly, 200m Butterfly and 400m individual medley, and he used to be the record holder of 200m Freestyle & 200m IM, until Paul Biedermann and Ryan Lochte beat him.

He was brought up in Baltimore, Maryland, with 2 sisters who are both older than him. His parents divorced in 1994 but his father remarried in 2000.At the age of 15, Michael was the youngest American male swimmer to compete at the Olympic Games in 68 years.

Michael is such an amazing swimmer. I hope one day I could maybe be successful like him.