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Michael Fred Phelps II[5] OLY (born June 30, 1985) [6] is an American former competitive swimmer. He is 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 ...
Chris Guiliano. Australia (AUS) Maximillian Giuliani. Flynn Southam. Elijah Winnington. Thomas Neill. Kai Taylor. Zac Incerti. Note: since 1984, swimmers who competed only in preliminary rounds also received medals.
A total of 1,881 individual athletes won medals. Chinese athletes won the most gold medals with 48 (100 total), and the United States won the most total medals with 112 (including 36 gold). [10] Athletes from 87 countries won medals, while 55 nations won at least one gold medal, both setting new records for Olympic Games. [11]
All told, Phelps' 23 gold medals account for an astounding 82.1% of his all-time Olympic medal count. Perhaps more impressively, Phelps won at least four gold medals in four straight Olympics ...
The former professional swimmer told Today in July 2012, “I have 11 Olympic medals. They were in my sock drawer and then my father decided that wasn’t safe enough, so he got me a safe.” (Her ...
Clive Rose / Gety. As the summer Olympics are set to begin in Tokyo, here are the Olympians with the most medals. Michael Phelps is the most decorated Olympian in history with 28 medals. Ryan ...
Michael Phelps in 2017. This is the top 15 male Olympic swimming gold medals. Name Gold Silver Bronze Total 1. Michael Phelps: 23: 3: 2: 28 2. Mark Spitz: 9: 1: 1: 11 3.
No, Phelps is not competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics. The now 39-year-old Phelps officially retired from competitive swimming after the 2016 Rio Olympics, where he went off into the sunset with ...