Michael Phelps:

Educational Background:
Phelps attended Rodgers Forge Elementary, Dumbarton Middle School, and Towson
High School. Phelps graduated from Towson High Schoolin 2003. Phelps began
swimming at the age of seven, partly because of the influence of his sisters and partly to
provide him with an outlet for his energy.When Phelps was in the sixth grade, he was
diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). By the age of 10, he
held a national record for his age group, and Phelps began to train at the North Baltimore
Aquatic Club under coach Bob Bowman. More age group records followed, and Phelps's
rapid improvement culminated in his qualifying for the 2000 Summer Olympics at the
age of 15 and becoming the youngest male to make a U.S. Olympic swim team in 68
years. While he did not win a medal, he did make the finals and finished fifth in the 200meter butterfly.
Awards:
Phelps was a USA Olympic team member in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012, and holds
the records for most Olympic gold medals (18), most such medals in individual events
(11), and most such medals at a single games (8, in Beijing 2008).[4] A street in his
hometown of Baltimore was renamed The Michael Phelps Way in 2004.[220] On April 9,
2009, Phelps was invited to appear before the Maryland House of Delegates and the
Maryland Senate, to be honored for his Olympic accomplishments.
Phelps has also received the following awards:
Swimming World Magazine World Swimmer of the Year Award: 2003, 2004, 2006,

2007, 2008, 2009, 2012[222]

Swimming World Magazine American Swimmer of the Year Award: 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012[222][223]
FINA swimmer of the year (since 2010): 2012
Golden Goggle Male Performance of the Year (since 2004): 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009[4]
Golden Goggle Relay Performance of the Year (since 2004): 2006, 2007, 2008,
2009[4]
Golden Goggle Male Athlete of the Year (since 2004): 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012[4]
USOC SportsMan of the Year Award: 2004, 2008,[224] 201112[225]
James E. Sullivan Award: 2003[226]
Laureus World Sports Sportsman of the Year Award (nominated): 2004, 2005, 2008,
2009, 2013[227][228][229][230]
Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year: 2008[231]
Associated Press Athlete of the Year: 2008, 2012
Marca Leyenda (2008)

Tyler Clary:
Educational Background:
Clary attended Riverside Polytechnic High School in Riverside, California,

graduating in 2007, and swam competitively for Fullerton Aquatics (FAST Swimming) in
Fullerton, California. Clary accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of
Michigan, where he competed in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
competition for three years. He was a three-time NCAA national champion, winning the
400-yard individual medley in 2009 and 2010 and the 200-yard backstroke in 2009. Clary
was the 2009 NCAA Swimmer of the Year and received eleven All-American honors.
Clary turned professional in 2010, forgoing his final season at Michigan. In
preparation for the 2012 Olympic Games, Clary spent the next two years training under
Jon Urbanchek at the U.S. Olympic Post-Graduate Training Center at Fullerton Aquatics
(FAST Swimming).

Awards:
Won titles in the 200m back and 400m IM at 2014 Phillips 66 Nationals to earn a
ticket to Pan Pacs. Also took second in the 200m fly and third in the 200m IM . Won
bronze in the 200m back at the 2013 FINA World Championships .Qualified for the 2013
FINA World Championship with second place finishes in the 200m fly, 200m back and
400m IM at Phillips 66 Nationals .Won gold in the 200m back at the 2012 Olympic
Games . Also touched fifth in the 200m fly . Qualified for the 2012 Olympic Team by
finishing second in the 200m fly and 200m back . Collected two individual medals in the
400m IM (silver) and 200m back (bronze) at the 2011 FINA World Championships .
Placed eighth in the 200m free and 200m fly at the 2011 ConocoPhillips National
Championships . Took home a silver and a bronze at the 2010 FINA Short Course World
Championships . Claimed three silver medals at the 2010 MOO Pan Pacific

Championships . Finished second in the 400m IM at 2010 U.S. Nationals . Earned a silver
medal in the 400m IM at the 2009 FINA World Championships... Placed second in the
400m IM and 200m fly at 2009 Nationals, earning a berth on the 2009 World
Championship Team . At the 2009 NCAA Championships, placed first in the 400y IM
and 200y back, and second in the 200y IM . Placed third in the 200m back and fourth in
the 400m IM at the 2008 Olympic Trials . Tied for ninth in the 500y free and the 400y IM
at the 2008 NCAA Championships . Silver medalist in the 200m back at the 2007 Pan
American Games . Placed first in the 400m IM, second in the 400m free and fourth in the
200m free at the 2007 Junior Pan Pacs.

Ryan Lochte:
Educational Background:
Ryan Lochte is a 2002 graduate of Spruce Creek High School in Port Orange,
Florida. Lochte attended the University of Florida and graduated in 2007, majoring in
sport management. As a member of the Florida Gators swimming and diving team, he
swam for coach Gregg Troy. At Florida, Lochte was the NCAA Swimmer of the Year
twice, a seven-time NCAA champion, a seven-time SEC champion, and a twenty-four
time All-American. At the 2006 NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships,
during his senior year, Lochte won individual titles in all three of his individual events,
setting U.S. Open and American records in the 200-yard individual medley and the 200-

yard backstroke. He also broke Tom Dolan's nearly decade-old NCAA record in the 400yard individual medley.
Awards:
2013 FINA World Swimming Championships (LC)
Mens 4x200m Free Relay Gold
Mens 200m Back Gold
Mens 4x100m Freestyle Silver
Mens 200m IM Gold

2012 World Short Course Championships, Istanbul

200m Free- Gold
4x100m free- Gold
100m fly- Bronze
4x200m free- Gold
200m IM- Gold Broke World Record 1:49.63
200m back- Silver
100m IM- Gold Broke World Record 50.71
4x100m medley- Gold

Ryan won the most medals in history at Short Course World Championships and was
named Swimmer of the Meet. He currently holds all of the Short Course IM Records

Holds the World Records in all of the IM Short Course events

100m IM (50.71) 2012 SC Worlds Istanbul
200m IM (1:49.63) 2012 SC Worlds Istanbul
400m IM (3:55.50) 2010 SC Worlds Dubai

2012 Olympics London, United Kingdom

200 Free- 4th
200 Back- Bronze
400 IM- Gold
200 IM- Silver
800 Free Relay- Gold
400 Free Relay- Silver

2012 Olympic Trials Omaha, Nebraska

Qualified Events
400 IM
200 IM
200 Back
200 Free
800 Free Relay

2011
2011 Golden Goggles Race of the Year for the 200 IM

2011 Male Athlete of the Year for the third year in a row!
2011 World Championships (LC) Shanghai
200 Free
200 IM & World Record 1:54.00
200 Back
Mens 4200 Relay
400 IM

Ryosuke Irie
Educational Background:
Ryosuke Irie is a Kinki University student in Osaka. He was born in Osaka and
started his actual swimming career in his junior high school years. When he was in the
second grade, future Olympic backstroke medalist Ryosuke Irie hated swimming. He
loathed it so much that his mother had to carry a crying Irie to his coach at poolside.
When he first joined, Irie was one of the slowest swimmers in the elite Itoman Toshin
swimming school in Suminoe Ward, Osaka. He joined the school because his older
brother, Shinpei Irie, who had won numerous national-level competitions, was in the
program. He reluctantly continued swimming only because his mother, Kumiko,
promised she would ask the coach if he could quit a year after he joined the school.
Irie initially trained in freestyle, but began swimming the backstroke alone for long
periods before and after practice. Backstroke was suitable for Irie because it did not
require as much power as freestyle, and soon, Irie began winning national-level

competitions and breaking junior high school records.

A year after Irie began training at the elite school, his mother had forgotten her
promise to ask the coach if her son could quit.
In 2005 he won the national high school championships in 200 meter backstroke
when he was a first year grade student. He made new high school student record in
Japanese national championships in April 2006. He narrowly missed the entry for FINA
World Aquatics Championships of that year. He won a gold medal with the time of
1:58.85 in 200 m backstroke at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.
In August 2007, he attended his first world swimming competition, International
Swim Meet 2007 held in Chiba, Japan. On August 22, he beat the previous high school
record in 100 m backstroke with the time of 54.07 s. The next day, he beat another high
school record in 200 m backstroke with the time of 1:57.03.
Awards:
Silver, 200-meter backstroke
Silver, 4x100-meter medley relay
Bronze, 100-meter backstroke

The United States men earned two medals in both the 100 back and 200 back, but
Japans Ryosuke Irie was the only man to medal in both races.
Along with his two individual medals, Irie also played a pivotal role in Japans silver
medal in the medley relay. Iries split of 52.92 seconds in the backstroke on the opening
leg of the relay put Japan in second place behind the United States, and his team was able

to hold the place he established through the relays final three legs.
Grant Hackett:
Educational Background:
Hackett holds a Diploma of Law, Diploma of Commerce, and an Executive MBA
from Bond University. He also has a Diploma of Financial Services.

Awards:
1998 World Championships
During the 1998 World Championships, he again won the 1500 m but was narrowly upset
by Thorpe in the 400 m. He also combined with Thorpe, Michael Klim and Daniel
Kowalskito win the 4200 m freestyle relay, beginning a six-year winning streak in the
event over the United States.
Event

Results

Time

Silver
Men's 400m Freestyle

3:46.44
Medal

Men's 1500m Freestyle Gold Medal 14:51.70

Men's 4200m
Gold Medal 7:12.48
Freestyle

2001 World Championships[edit]

At the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Hackett was in the peak of his speed. He
set personal bests in the 200 m, 400 m 800 m and 1500 m freestyle events, finishing
second to Thorpe in both 400 m and 800m, and bettering the 800 m world record in the
latter. Along with Thorpe, Klim and Kirby, they bettered the previous world record in the

4200 m freestyle. In the 1500 m, Hackett attacked immediately, and stayed well ahead
of Perkins' world record, and with the crowd standing and willing him on, he broke the
record by 7 seconds, to claim gold.
Event

Results

Time

Silver
Men's 400m Freestyle

3:42.51
Medal
Silver

Men's 800m Freestyle

7:40.34
Medal
W

Men's 1500m Freestyle Gold Medal 14:34.56

R
Men's 4200m

W
Gold Medal 7:04.66

Freestyle

2003 World Championships[edit]

The 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Hackett picked up 5 Medals, 3 gold, a
silver and a bronze. Despite capturing individual medals in 200, 400, 800 and 1500
freestyle for the first time in an international meet, Hackett failed to break any personal
best times let alone world records.
Event

Results

Time

Men's 200m Freestyle

Bronze
Medal

Men's 400m Freestyle

Silver Medal 3:45.17

Men's 800m Freestyle

Gold Medal

1:46.85

7:43.82

Men's 1500m Freestyle Gold Medal

14:43.14

Men's 4200m
Freestyle

7:08.58

Gold Medal

2005 World Championships[edit]

In 2005, Swimming Australia introduced the concept of a captain for the swimming team.

Hackett was awarded this honour, and led Australia in the World Championships
atMontreal, Canada. He won gold medals in the 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m freestyle (as
well as silver in the 200 m freestyle), the first person ever to achieve this feat, along with
the only swimmer to medal in four distances in a single world championships. His victory
in the 800 m event broke Thorpe's world record, and his 1500 m victory saw him become
the first to win an event four times at a World Championships. He ancored the 4200 m
team to bronze with a split of 1:44.84, making him the second fastest performer in relay
splits. He was named as FINA's Male swimmer of the meet.
Event

Results

Time

Men's 200m Freestyle

Silver Medal 1:46.14

Men's 400m Freestyle

Gold Medal

3:42.91

Men's 800m Freestyle

Gold Medal

7:38.65

W
R

Men's 1500m Freestyle Gold Medal

14:42.58

Men's 4200m
Freestyle

7:10.59

Bronze
Medal

2007 World Championships[edit]

He qualified last in the 400 m event, but led in the final before fading in the last lap to
take the bronze medal. He qualified fifth in the 800 m event, but finished seventh, more
than ten seconds behind the winner. In the 1500 m final Hackett came seventh, ending his
decade long unbeaten streak in the event.
Event
Men's 400m Freestyle

Results
Silver
Medal

Time
3:45.43

Men's 800m Freestyle 6th

7:55.39

Men's 1500m Freestyle 7th

14:59.59

2008 Olympics[edit]
Though Hackett failed to qualify for the 10,000m; he succeeded in other events. He swam
the 400m and 1500m freestyle and the 4x200m freestyle relay. In the 1500m he finished
second, winning the silver medal behind Tunisian Oussama Mellouli. Had he won, he

would have been the first male swimmer to win three successive Olympic titles in the
same event, an opportunity denied to two-time Olympic 1500m champion Vladimir
Salnikov due to the 1984 Summer Olympics communist boycott. Hackett won the
individual 200m freestyle swim at the Olympic trials but as he was not seeking a berth in
the event he handed his spot in the Olympic competition in this event to the third place
finisher at the trials,Nicholas Sprenger.
Event

Results

Men's 400m Freestyle

6th

Time
3:43.84

Men's 1500m Freestyle Silver Medal 14:41.53

Men's 4200m
Freestyle

Bronze
Medal

7:04.98

Career Best Times:

Hackett has set quite a number of world records both short course and long course. His
world records in the 1500 meter (long course and short course) and 800 meter short
course were the only male world records that survived the 2008/2009 release of the high
tech Polyurethane suits.
Long Course Personal bests
Event

Time

Record
Short Course Personal bests

200m Freestyle

1:45.61

2004

400m Freestyle

3:42.51

2001

200m Freestyle

1:42.48

800m Freestyle

7:38.65

Former WR
Holder

2005

400m Freestyle

3:34.56

Former WR
Holder

2003

14:34.56

Former WR
Holder

2001

800m Freestyle

7:23.42[4]

WR

2008

1500m Freestyle

14:10.10[5]

WR

2001

4x200m Freestyle 7:04.66

Former WR
Holder

2001

6:52:66

Former WR
Holder

2007

1500m Freestyle

Matt Grevers:

Event

4x200m
Freestyle

Time

Record
2003

Educational Background:
Grevers was born in Lake Forest, Illinois. He graduated from Lake Forest High School, and
then attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and swam for the Northwestern
Wildcats swimming and diving team.

Awards:

Gold, 100-meter backstroke

Gold, 4x100-meter medley relay

Silver, 4x100-meter freestyle relay (qualification-round competitor)

U.S. swimmer Matt Grevers proved himself as the worlds best 100-meter backstroke swimmer at
the 2012 Olympic Games. Grevers won gold in the 100 back with an Olympic-record time of 52.16
seconds and led off in the same discipline in the medley relay final to give the U.S. team a lead they
would hold through the races final three legs for gold.

Grevers also earned a silver medal for his participation in the qualification round of the 4x100 free
relay. His split of 47.54 seconds was the fastest among the four U.S. swimmers in the qualification
round.

Cameron Van der Burgh

Educational Background:

Van der Burgh went to Glenstantia Primary as a young boy[7] but matriculated at Crawford
college in 2006[8] He now studies Financial Management through UNISA part-time and is
interested in becoming an entrepreneur after his swimming career.

Awards:

Gold, 100-meter breaststroke (world record)

Eliminated in heats, 4x100-meter medley relay (qualification-round competitor)

South Africas Cameron van der Burgh only competed in one individual Olympic event, but he
sure made his mark in the 100 breast. Swimming against a field that included two-time defending
100 breast champion Kosuke Kitajima of Japan, Van der Burgh won the race in a world-record
time of 58.46 seconds.

Gyurta Daniel:
Educational Background:

Daniel began his studies in Gza Brczy Primary School, then in Pter Veres Secondory
School was the next successful school - time. He is now attending on the Department of
Economy and Manegement of Budapest Communication College.
Awards:

2008 Youth European Championship, 400m medlay 4th position

Youth European Championship, 1500m freestyle 7th position

2009 Youth European Championship Prague, 1500m freestyle - European Champion

Youth European Championship Prague, 400m medlay silver medalist

2010 European Championship Budapest, 1500m freestyle 7th position

European Championship Budapest, 800m freestyle 8th position

Short Course World Championship Dubai, 1500m freestyle bronze medalist

2011 Szcsecsin European Short Course Championships: 1500 m freestyle 9th place

2012 Debrecen European Championship: 1500 m freestyle 3rd place

Open Water Cup in Eilat Europe 10Km second place

London Olympics 1500 m freestyle 12th place

2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships Herning, 1500m Freestyle

European Champion

Gold, 200-meter breaststroke (world record)

Fourth, 100-meter breaststroke

Fifth, 4x100-meter medley relay

Cameron van der Burgh was not the only breaststroker to break a world record in London.
Hungarys Daniel Gyurta joined him in the 200 breast, swimming a fastest-ever time of 2:07.28 to
hold off Great Britains Michael Jamieson by .15 seconds. With Gyurtas win, he defeated
Kosuke Kitajima, who was the two-time defending champion in both the 100 and 200 breast, in
both of those events, as Gyurta also finished fourth ahead of Kitajimas fifth in the 100 breast
final.

Chad le Clos
Educational Background:
He attended Westville Boys' High School in Durban, South Africa, matriculating in 2010. He has
been swimming from a very young age, and when he started competing at the age of 10 he
already had a few years of training under his belt.

Awards:

Gold, 200-meter butterfly

Silver, 100-meter butterfly
Fifth, 400-meter individual medley

 Seventh, 4x200-meter freestyle relay

Eliminated in semifinals, 200-meter individual medley
Eliminated in heats, 4x100-meter medley relay

South Africas Chad le Clos has a bright future at only 20 years old, but it will be hard for
him to ever top the accomplishment he achieved in the 200 fly at the London Games. In
winning gold in the 200 fly, Le Clos out-touched the most decorated Olympian of all
time, Michael Phelps, by .05 seconds.

Le Clos also won a silver in the 100 fly, finishing second to Phelps. In total, Le Clos
swam in six of the seven races that Phelps did and came nowhere near matching Phelps
overall success at the Games, but his gold-medal-winning performance over Phelps in the
200 fly was a huge feat.

Nathan Adrian:
Educational Backgrround:
He was a 2006 graduate, swimming for Bremerton High School.[8] Adrian matriculated at the
University of California, Berkeley in fall 2006, where he majored in public health. He eventually
graduated with honors in the spring of 2012.

Awards:

Gold, 100-meter freestyle

Gold, 4x100-meter medley relay
Silver, 4x100-meter freestyle relay

Nathan Adrian was called upon three times by the U.S. mens swimming team to swim
the 100 free, and he proved himself as the worlds best in the discipline. Adrian outtouched Australias James Magnussen by one one-hundredth of a second to win gold in
the individual 100 free, while he closed the 4x100 medley relay with a superb 100-meter
split of 46.85 seconds to pull away from Japans Takuro Fujii and finish off a gold-medalwinning relay performance for the United States.Adrian was also the leadoff leg for the
U.S. mens 4x100 free relay that ended up with a silver medal.

Allison Schmitt:
Educational Background:
Schmitt went to Canton High School in Canton Township, Michigan, from which she
graduated in the Spring of 2008. During her senior year, as she continued to swim at what had, by
then, become Club Wolverine (formerly AASC) on the University of Michigan campus in nearby
Ann Arbor, she began training alongside Olympian Michael Phelps under the guidance of
Phelps's longtime coach, the university's men's swimming and diving head coach Bob Bowman.
Before the Summer Olympics in Beijing, having ended his tenure at University of Michigan,
Bowman moved to Baltimore in anticipation of being named the head coach and CEO of the
prestigious North Baltimore Aquatic Club (NBAC) the following September. Both Phelps and
Schmitt followed, with Schmitt moving to Baltimore just after her spring 2008 high school
graduation in order to train full-time with Phelps and Bowman during the weeks leading-up to
that summer's Olympics in Beijing (at which Schmitt won her first Olympic medal, a bronze in
the 4200 meter freestyle).

Awards:

 Gold, 200-meter freestyle

Gold, 4x200-meter freestyle relay
Gold, 4x100-meter medley relay (world record)
Silver, 400-meter freestyle
Bronze, 4x100-meter freestyle relay

U.S. swimmer Allison Schmitt tied for the most overall medals among female
swimmers at the London Games and was second only to Missy Franklin with three gold
medals. Schmitts finest individual performance came in the 200 free, where she was
dominant, winning the race by 1.97 seconds while swimming an Olympic-record time of
1:53.61. Schmitt was also the anchor leg for all three U.S. relays, including the worldrecord-setting medley team that won gold. Schmitt proved to be an extremely valuable
freestyle swimmer for the U.S. in London and ended up as one of the Games most
decorated swimmers.