Michael phelps: michael phelps won the Beijing Olympic Games.

Nickname: Baltimore bullet shoes size: 48 (US 14)

Training location: Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Coach: Bob Baumann.

Major: sports management

Family members: My father Fred is a policeman and an athlete, my mother Debbie is a teacher, and she is also the administrator of the education system in Baltimore County, and my two sisters Hillary and Whitney (1995 World Championship members of the US national swimming team).

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Personality data

Nickname: MP

Pet: A pet dog named Herman.

Hobbies: video games, watching TV and sleeping.

Relaxation mode: sleep

Most dependent people: mother and two sisters.

Favorite car: Cadillac.

Favorite place to go: Australia

Favorite sport: American football

Favorite sport: basketball.

Supported football team: Baltimore Ravens.

Favorite movie: Tommy Boy.

Favorite TV program: Sports Center.

Pan-Pacific Championship August 20 10 (20)

Favorite food: pizza.

Favorite actor: Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. ..

Favorite actress: Cameron Diaz.

Favorite athlete: Michael Jordan.

Favorite pre-game meal: cereal and energy bar

Favorite snacks: biscuits and chocolate bars.

Favorite cereal: lucky one.

Favorite book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Happo lee (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee).

The most unforgettable thing: meeting with boxing champion Ali

Sponsors: Speedo, Visa, Mortgage, Omega, Powerbar), (Matusnichi and TV Asahi.

Training status: 6-7 days a week, three classes a day, a total of 6 hours-morning, afternoon and evening.

He published an autobiography, Beneath the Surface (published in 2005).

Unlimited: The Will to Success (published in 2008)

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personal record

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 will receive a bonus of100000 USD from the sponsor.

Michael phelps was born on June 30th, 1985, during the Athens Olympic Games. 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 sensed Michael's fear and allowed him to float on his back. Not surprisingly, the first swimming position he learned 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 events. In fact, Michael's only "shortcoming" is that he grows too fast. For a while, it made him feel very tired.

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 and set five world records with his outstanding performance. Michael won the gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly with a new world record, and set new records in the 100-meter butterfly and the 200-meter individual medley-these records were set on the same day, which is the first time in the history of 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 at all.

Phelps training photos (10)

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.

1996, 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 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 his potential is unlimited."

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 4 inches tall and weighs 185 pounds. He has no fat on him. He swam across the water like a fish. His kicking is very powerful, as if he had an engine on his leg.

Lenny Creze Berg, an American backstroker who won three gold medals at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, said, "I have never seen 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 start training for two and a half hours at 5 am, take a nap after lunch, and then go swimming from 3: 30 to 6: 00 pm.

In a word, the distance michael phelps swims every day is 12 mile. 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. "On one occasion, 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 the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, the men's 400m mixed race won the individual championship.

Won the American swimming gold goggles award (7)

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!" Mark spitz only used one sentence to evaluate Phelps' record of winning eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games in 36 years: epic greatness.

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

Michael phelps In the men's 4X200 freestyle relay final of the 29th Beijing Olympic Games, 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.

In the men's 200m medley at the Beijing Olympic Games on August 5th, 2008, he broke his own world record with a score of 1: 54.23, which was his sixth gold medal and 12 Olympic gold medal.

On August 6th, 2008, 10: 10, Phelps won the water cube men's butterfly 100 meter championship with a score of 50.58, which was his seventh gold medal in this Olympic Games and also broke the Olympic record.

On August 17, 2008, the men's 4x 100 medley relay final of Beijing Olympic Games ended. The American team won the gold medal under the leadership of Phelps, who also successfully broke the previous record of Shpits winning 7 gold medals in a single Olympic Games, monopolizing 8 gold medals and becoming the biggest winner of the Water Cube.

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Major achievements

Fifth place in the 200-meter butterfly at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games; In 2008, Beijing Olympic Games won 8 gold medals, and 200 1 Fukuoka Swimming World Championships won the 200m butterfly, breaking the world record.

200-meter and 400-meter individual medley champion, 200-meter butterfly runner-up, 2002 Pan-Pacific Championship 4× 100-meter medley relay champion, 4× 200m freestyle relay runner-up;

At the 2003 Barcelona Swimming World Championships, he won the 200m butterfly, 200m, 400m individual medley and 4x100m medley relay, breaking the world record five times.

Bronze medals in men's 200m and 400m individual medley,100m and 200m butterfly, 4× 200m freestyle relay and 4×100m medley relay, 200m freestyle relay and 4×100m freestyle relay in 2004 Athens Olympic Games;

Runner-up in men's 100-meter butterfly at the 2005 World Swimming Championships in Montreal, champion in 200m freestyle, 200m individual medley and 4x0100-meter freestyle relay;

In 2006, he won the men's 400m individual medley and 4x200m freestyle relay, the men's 200m butterfly relay, 4x100m freestyle relay and 200m individual medley relay.

2007 Melbourne Swimming World Championships 200-meter and 400-meter medley champion; 100 meter and 200 meter butterfly champion; 200 m freestyle champion; 4×100m, 4× 200m freestyle relay champion;

Michael phelps In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Phelps broke his previous world record and won the gold medal in the men's 400m individual medley final. In the men's 4x 100 freestyle relay, Phelps and his teammates set a new world record and won the second gold medal. In the men's 200m freestyle, Phelps once again set a new record and won the third gold medal. 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 to win the championship, and Phelps won the first gold medal in this Olympic Games. In the men's 200m individual medley final, Phelps once again broke the world record and won the sixth gold medal in this Olympic Games. In the men's 100 meter butterfly final, Phelps narrowly won the seventh gold medal in this Olympic Games. In the men's 4× 100 meter medley final, Phelps and his teammates once again set a new world record and won their eighth gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games, breaking Shpits's record of seven gold medals in one session, realizing the long-lost dream of eight gold medals, and creating the myth that individuals won the most gold medals (14) in Olympic history.

Men's 200m freestyle runner-up,100m butterfly champion, 200m butterfly champion, 4x100m freestyle relay champion, 4x100m medley relay champion in Rome Swimming World Championships in 2009,100m butterfly and 200m butterfly relay champion, 4.

20 10 American Charlotte Swimming Grand Prix 200m individual medley, 200m freestyle,100m butterfly,100m backstroke champion.

20 1 1 Indianapolis American Swimming Grand Prix won the gold medals in men's100m freestyle and 200m individual medley, and set the world's best results in these two events this season. Phelps won all five events in this competition. [ 1]

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Personal glory

Phelps's personal world record is:

200m butterfly 1 min 5 1 sec 5 1 09 Rome World Championships.

400 m medley 4 minutes 03 seconds 84 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

2009 Rome World Championships 100 meter butterfly 49 seconds 82

In addition, there are three group projects:

4X 100 freestyle relay (USA) 3 minutes 08 seconds 24 08 Beijing Olympic Games

2009 Rome World Championships 4X200 freestyle relay (USA) 6 minutes 58.55 seconds.

4X 100 medley relay (USA) 3 minutes 27 seconds 28 2009 World Championships in Rome.

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Personal cookbook

Phelps, 23, trains 30 hours a week and consumes 12000 calories a day. In order to supplement the calories lost in training, he must take enough calories in his daily diet. Phelps also said that he doesn't have too many restrictions on his diet. He always eats a lot of things he likes. He must supplement as many calories as possible.

Phelps's daily diet is as follows:

Breakfast: 3 fried egg sandwiches, 2 cups of coffee, 5 fried eggs, 1 bowl of corn porridge, 3 pieces of French toast and 3 pieces of chocolate pancakes.

Lunch: 1 lb pasta, 2 ham and cheese sandwiches, energy drinks (1000 calories or more).

Dinner: 1 lb pasta, 1 whole pizza, energy drinks (more than 1000 calories).

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Personal preference

I am used to wearing two swimming caps.

In a sense, such a move may be more out of a psychological suggestion. Phelps thinks that two swimming caps can make the head suffer as little resistance as possible in the water.

The best friend is a sparring partner.

As we all know, Phelps and Locht are good friends, but as competitors, the topic between the two swimmers will never involve swimming. In fact, Phelps' true confidant is his sparring partner erik vendt in Michigan for the past two years. During the most difficult period of Phelps' sports career, his roommate Venter gave him considerable help.

Wear different swimsuits on different occasions.

In freestyle events, Speedo LZR racing suit is Phelps' only choice; In butterfly events, Phelps usually only wears LZR racer's swimming trunks.

Your own report is collected by the master.

Phelps never cared about reports about himself, but his coach Bowman was just the opposite. He never misses any news about his disciples.

Rap is the main feature of ipod.

In recent weeks, rapper Wayne from New Orleans has become Phelps' favorite. Ross, Jeezy, Jay Z, of course, are all idols of Phelps. But Phelps occasionally tries classical music.

An avid video game fan

Phelps often plays football. Recently, Nintendo Wii has become his new favorite. Bowman once said that Phelps was crazy about video games.

Judging distance by the number of strokes

In the 200-meter butterfly, Phelps' goggles were flooded and his eyesight was seriously affected. In this case, Phelps actually depends on the number of times he hits the water to calculate the distance between himself and the pool wall.

Sleep with the TV on.

For Phelps, he spends most of his time in hotels around the world, and the familiar sounds from ESPN and Discovery Channel will make him feel more comfortable after leaving home.

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A successful journey

Talent = vital capacity+lactic acid

Phelps, with a height of 1.93m and a weight of 79kg, is a typical swimmer Phelps' physique on the cover of Time magazine, but he is an exception in this typical case, because his upper limbs are particularly long and his legs are particularly short, which makes him look like a slender sailboat in the water. And Phelps is naturally good at water. "A good butterfly leg is Phelps' killer (leisure), and the kick movements of backstroke, freestyle and butterfly are somewhat similar. Phelps has unique skills in this respect. When turning around, it is often shallower than other players, so it is fast. Former Olympic champion Hong Qian explained the magic of Phelps. Luo Xuejuan, another Olympic champion, seems to have studied Phelps more carefully. "Phelps' vital capacity reaches 15000, but his lactic acid secretion is half that of normal people, and his heart blood supply is 30 liters, which is more than double that of normal people, so he is not easy to get tired. "Adult male's vital capacity is around 3,500, and even Park Tae hwan, who just won the Olympic men's 400-meter freestyle championship, has only 7,000. It can be seen that Phelps is a natural swimming genius, and his fat content is second only to basketball superstar Michael Jordan. As we all know, Jordan's fat content is the lowest in the human world, only about 3%, and Phelps is less than 4%, which also makes him faster and more endurance. This can also be seen from his diet.

Breakfast: 3 fried egg sandwiches, 2 cups of coffee, 5 fried eggs, 1 bowl of corn porridge, 3 pieces of French toast and 3 pieces of chocolate pancakes.

Lunch: 1 lb pasta, 2 ham and cheese sandwiches, energy drinks (1000 calories or more).

Dinner: 1 lb pasta, 1 whole pizza, energy drinks (more than 1000 calories).

Genius = hard work+paranoia

Of course, only talent without acquired efforts will not become a genius, which is best explained by Phelps. "If you take a day off, your physical strength will go backwards for two days." This is Phelps' motto, and it is also the wise words given to him by his coach. Phelps always believed that "if you waste two days, you may never get it back."

For a long time, he insisted on the habit of getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning, which was unimaginable. He is so paranoid that Phelps is nicknamed "the morning star" on the American swimming team. What is even more amazing is Phelps' perseverance. In the past seven years, he hasn't been in the water for only five days out of more than 2,500 days. It is in this almost paranoid effort that Phelps has made impressive achievements.

Phelps and Serbian Cavic ranked in no particular order in the final sprint. At this critical moment, Phelps did not use a safer way to slide and touch the wall, but quickly and briefly paddled again and then touched the wall. This is a bold gamble.

In the end, the American genius won the gold medal in 50.58 seconds, only one hundredth of a second faster than the second place.

"When I paddled for the last time, I thought it would ruin my game," he said, "but it was just the opposite. If I slide down and hit the wall, it will take too long. In the end, my decision was correct. "

Phelps also said that he didn't know at first that Serbia appealed to FINA after the game. But after watching the replay of the game and learning that his first prize was valid, he was relieved.

"The two of us are too close to see who is in the lead. 0.0 1 sec is the smallest time difference in sports competitions. I can only say that it is too cool. "

Phelps also talked about his gold rush in this Olympic Games. The men's medley relay will be held tomorrow, and the United States has a good chance of winning the championship. As long as he wins this gold medal again, Phelps will become the person who won the most gold medals in a single Olympic Games.

"Sometimes I think this is a dream, and I even have to pinch myself to be sure that this is real life." He said, "My coach told me,' Anything can happen as long as you have lofty ideals. "

"Facts have proved that no matter what your dream is and how big it is, it can be achieved. Everything is possible. "

Now Phelps has tied Shpits' record, and he immediately won the sponsorship award of $654.38 million. Although "Qian Jing" is very clever, he said that this was never his goal.

"I'm not for the money, I'm just doing what I like. I dreamed of becoming an Olympic champion when I was a child. "

"If the coach and I were for money, we would have stopped swimming. My big goal is to change the sport of swimming and let more American children participate. "

Secret of success

I: Phelps is 1.93 meters tall, but his upper body reaches 90 centimeters, which is equivalent to the length of a person with a height of 2.07 meters. His arm span reaches 2.065,438+0 meters (the average person's arm span is almost the same as his own height), and every stroke is much more advanced than others. His feet are big, too, with a shoe size of 48: and his big hands. It is equivalent to the palm of a 2-meter-high NBA player.

Ⅱ: Phelps' blood lactic acid content is lower than one third of that of other opponents. Lactic acid is considered to cause human fatigue, that is to say, he can rest for 20 minutes, reaching the state that his opponent can rest 1 hour. In addition, the average person needs to consume 2000 calories a day, which is just the calories that Phelps takes from drinks. It is said that he ate eight eggs for breakfast, and his daily calorie intake was 12000 calories.

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Present situation of sports

After the Beijing Olympic Games, Phelps, then 23, won 14 Olympic gold medals, far exceeding the record of 9 gold medals set by mark spitz, Larissa Latynina, Paavo nurmi and Carl Luis, and became the athlete who won the most gold medals in the Summer Olympic Games. This will be an insurmountable peak for the latecomers.

Phelps became the youngest American male swimmer to participate in the Olympic Games in 68 years at the age of 15 at the Sydney Olympic Games. Although he didn't win the gold medal, he has begun to become famous in the swimming world. Five months after the Sydney Olympic Games, Phelps broke the world record of the 200m butterfly at the age of 15 years and 9 months, becoming the youngest swimmer to break the world record. Subsequently, a new world record was set at the World Swimming Championships held in Fukuoka, Japan (1: 54.58). At the National Games held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, Phelps once again set a new national record for the 400-meter individual medley, the US 100-meter butterfly and the 200-meter individual medley.

In 2003, Phelps broke his own world record in the 400-meter individual medley (4: 09.09). In June of the same year, he broke the world record of 200m individual medley (1: 56.04). Then on July 7th, 2004, at the Athens Olympic Games, Phelps once again broke his own world record of 400-meter individual medley (4: 08.41). At the Athens Olympic Games, he won six gold medals and two bronze medals, equalling the record of eight medals set by former Soviet gymnast Alexander Dityatin at the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980.

In 2003, Phelps won the Kristen Award, which is known as the "Oscar in American sports".

It has become an unprecedented symbol in the swimming world.