The big name everywhere in the world is Michael Phelps! When the United States won the 400m medley on Sunday, Phelps created the world history by grabbing th 8th gold in a single olympic.
Spitz created the record in 1972 for most number of gold medals in a single olympic.
Phelps 8 gold medals had 7 world records. He has won the following events:
400M Ind Medley - Finished in record time of 4:03:84, bettering the previous time of 4:05:25
4x100M Freestyle Relay - Team USA takes the gold setting a new world record time of 3:08:24
200M Freestyle - Finished in record time of 1:42:96
200M Butterfly - Finished in record time of 1:52:03
4x200M Freestyle Relay - Team USA took the gold with a record time of 6:58:56
200M Ind Medley - Record time 1:54:23
100M Butterfly - Won by a hundredth of a second - time 50.58
4x100M Medley - Team USA got another gold with Phelps getting his 8th in a record time of 3:29:34
Out of the 8 Gold Medals he won, 7 world records were created! Is the sports person of the century!
Congratulations Phelps!
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