Olympic Sports History

Michael Fred Phelps II of the USA is by far the most decelerated Olympian of all time with 23 Olympic gold medals as well 3 silver and 2 bronze making it 28 in total . He also holds 7 current world records across his sport of swimming. At only 31 he has retired from swimming once after the 2012 London Olympics but 2 years later he came out of retirement and qualified for the 2016 USA Olympic team. Michael went from a child scared to put his face under the water to the best swimmer of all time and the reasons for his success and continuous motivation can be explained by personality theories of Maslow and Eysenck.

I was an active member of the Varsity Swim team this year at School. I was swam 50 free, 50 back and in two relays. I personally came 8th in 50 back at the CISAA finals and our team was awarded CISAA Coed Champions

Doing the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle, some notable performances from the meet were by: 6-year-old Joseph Hawpe taking home 2nd place in the 25-yard

Continuing his winning streak, he went and won fifty-two National Championship titles and broke over fifty records in swimming. He continued winning all the way to the Olympic Trials for Paris 1924 and swept past his rivals. He was on his way to the Olympics where he won 3 gold medals in the 100 and 400 free and in the 4x200 freestyle relay. He also took home a bronze alongside the mens' water polo team. He was an astounding athlete and all of his rivals feared

Another event for the Australians on the fourth day of the Games was the 200 m freestyle. Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband had broken the world record in the semi-finals, taking it from the new Australian hero Ian Thorpe, who came close to the world record in his semi-final heat. As the final race finished, Van den Hoogenband's time was exactly the same as in the semi-finals, finishing ahead of Thorpe by half a second.

10th place finish in the 100m at the World University Game in Gwangju, South Korea

With 4 State Championship titles in swimming, I have learned that dedication and hard work and self-motivation will always help me reach my goals. Swimming has made a major impact in my life and I love every hard-working hour. My 5th State Title was not in swimming but in water polo my sophomore year when Cedar beat Park City. That experience was unique because of the closeness of the team and the experience of each of us working together toward a common goal.

Dawn Fraser was a brilliant swimmer, one of the most dominant in the world during the 1950s and 60s. She was the first ever to win the same event at three consecutive Olympics. She was the first female to swim 100m freestyle in less than a minute, and later set an astounding world record of 58.9secs – a time that remained the world's best for 14 years.

In this extraordinary book, the world’s most extraordinary distance swimmer writes about her emotional and spiritual need to swim and about the almost mystical act of swimming itself. Lynne Cox trained hard from age nine, working with an Olympic coach, swimming five to twelve miles each day in the Pacific. At age eleven, she swam even when hail made the water “like cold tapioca pudding” and was told she would one day swim the English Channel. Four years later—not yet out of high school—she broke the men’s and women’s world records for the Channel swim. In 1987, she swam the Bering Strait from America to the Soviet Union—a feat that,

Katie Ledecky definitely crushed the 400 meter freestyle world record in the Rio 2016 Olympics. She beat it by almost two seconds! She is still the youngest female swimmer on the U.S. swim team. She is just nineteen years old. In all, Katie won 5 medals (4 gold and 1 silver) at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

He won 4 gold medals in the common wealth games. Ian Broke world record for the 200m freestyle twice in two consecutive days (Topend Sports Network, 1997-2014 ). Unfortunately Ian’s courier ended with a damaged shoulder. He was a determined swimmer who never gave up. Exceedingly Ian also bettered own 400m freestyle mark, lowered the 200m freestyle world record twice again, he quoted that freestyle is my favourite.

First off I was in the 1996 Olympic pool the McAuley Aquatic Center for Men’s Division I Swimming and diving Championships. Almost the whole time all you could hear was screwball college kids coming from all over the country. There was that one little ODU kid all the way to Texas, Cal, Georgia, and Florida’s all Americans. It was just mesmerizing to watch world champions swim, even my sister

28 medals, - 23 of which are gold - shaping the swimming world and breaking world records (Majendie). In my opinion, the real person behind his success was his coach, Bow Bowman. Bowman trained him to his extent and kept refining every little thing he could. Without him, Phelps would surely not have his 23 gold medals nor be “remarkable” as Bowman describe him (Majendie). One day I want to train the next god-like olympian as a swim coach. As our society advances, we gain so much technology that enhances our lives. From drones to underwater cameras, we have a device for every possible action. Also, as technology

That was just the beginning of his swimming career. His first Olympics was the summer of 2000 when he was just 15 years old. He didn’t win any medals, but came in fifth in the 200 butterfly, which soon became the race that he called his. He then competed at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships, and beat the world record for

Everyone around the world tries to do something or find something that will make them happy or others around them.Either it would be in their carrier or in their work area. We all try to find that one thing that we enjoy doing. Sometimes when we do something that we regret doing because we know the consequences that awaits for us. Either you’re going to get in trouble with your loved ones or your going to get in trouble with the law. In these cases, its even worse when you are celebrity or an athlete that everyone around the world knows you. The person that I want to write about is Michael Phelps. He is known for winning 22 medals in three Olympiads. He holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medials. In winning 8 gold medials in 2008 Beijing’s Phelps took the record away from his fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz for the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. Five of those victories were in individual events, tying the single games record. In 2012 Summer Olympian London he won four gold medals and two silver medals making him the most successful athlete in the Olympics for the third time in a row.He is the long course world record holder in the 100-meter-butterfly, 200-meter-butterfly, 400-meter individual medley.He has won a total of 77 medals in major international long-course competition, totaling 61 gold,13 silver, and 3 bronze spanning the Olympics, the World and the Pan Pacific Champions. Phelps international titles and record braking