Birthdate: June 30, 1985.
Birth place: Baltimore, Maryland.
Club: North Baltimore Aquatic Club.
Height: 6'3
Weight: 201 lbs.
Achievement:-3 gold medals at the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships.
- 4 gold medals at the 2003 World Championships
- 5 golds, 1 silver medals at the 2005 World Championships
-5 gold, 1 silver medals at the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships
- 7 gold medals at the 2007 World Championships
- 8 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing games.
- 5 gold medals at the 2008 world championships.
- 5 gold medals at the 2010 Pan Pacific Championships.
Records: 400 meter individual medley - 4:03.845
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay - 3:08.246
- 200 meter freestyle - 1:42.967
- 200 meter butterfly - 1:52.038
- 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay - 6:58.569
- 200 meter individual medley - 1:54.2310
- 4 x 100 medley relay - 3:29.3411
Physique: A few physical attributes particularly suit Phelps to swimming: his long, thin torso offers low drag; his arms span 6 feet 7 inches (201 cm)—disproportionate to his height of 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm)—and act as long, propulsive "paddles"; his relatively short legs lower drag, and perhaps add the speed enhancement of a hydrofoil; his size 14 feet provide the effect of flippers; and hishypermobile ankles he can extend beyond the pointe of a ballet dancer, enabling him to whip his feet as if they were fins for maximum thrust through the water.
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