Olympic Swimming Star Fact Files: Michael Phelps

Name: Michael Phelps

Date of birth: 30 June 1985

Country: Baltimore, USA

Height:1.93m

Coach:Bob Bowman

Michael Phelps is one of the greatest Olympians of all time, with 16 Olympic medals – 14 of them gold. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics he became the first and only Olympian to win eight gold medals, beating the record of seven set by fellow swimmer Mark Spitz at the 1972 Munich Games.