Michael Phelps has won more gold medals than most countries

27 Jun 2021

Michael Phelps won more gold medals than any country

Michael Phelps has won more gold medals than most countries

Michael Phelps has won more gold medals than most countriesMichael Phelps is an American swimmer. He has won more than double of the gold medals that other Olympians and several nations have won.

For your information, Phelps alone has won twenty-three gold medals. All these are from his four appearances at the Summer Olympics. He won six gold medals in Athens in 2004, eight in Beijing in 2008, four in London in 2012, and 5 in Rio in 2016.

Since the Olympics began in 1896, sixty-six countries have taken home fewer gold medals than Phelps has. Moreover, this doesn’t even take into account the forty-two countries that have participated and not won any gold medals.
Michael Phelps
He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps has also won the most Olympic gold medals by any individual in history. The records that he has created will amaze you.

When he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps broke swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven gold medals at any single Olympic Games. He was also the most successful athlete of the Games for four Olympics in a row.

Phelps holds the world record in the swimming event, the men's 400-metre individual medley. Apart from the Olympics, he has also won 82 medals in other major international swimmings competitions.

Phelps retired in 2016 but is still widely admired and is often considered to be one of the greatest athletes of all time.

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