Mark Spitz - King of Water

If today everyone is talking about Michael Fred Phelps than just because of Mark Spitz whose 36 years record broke today. Mark Spitz a legend and under 50 top greatest athelets of the world at 33rd rank by ESPN in 1999.

Event	Results
4 x 100 m freestyle relay	Gold Medal
100 m freestyle	Gold Medal
200 m freestyle	Gold Medal
4 x 200 m freestyle relay	Gold Medal
200 m butterfly	Gold Medal
100 m butterfly	Gold Medal

Mark Spitz retired at the very young age i.e., only 22 years of age and also give a try to come back to the olympic in 1992 Barcelona olympic when he was 41 years of age. Reason behind this try was Bud Greenspan who offered Mark Spitz million dollar if he qualify for the olympic. He failed to qualify but however his records was better than his past records.

Prince of Water - Michael Fred Phelps

Michael Fred Phelps (Born on June 30, 1985) - Every USA expected that Michael Fred Phelps is going to beijing to break the records of their another USA swimmer Mark Spitz. No body even think about Michael Phelps defeat because they knew it he will win but the main point of attraction was breaking the records of 6 GOLD MEDAL in a single olympic event made in 1972 in Munich Olympic by Mark Spitz.

On August 16th after winning the 4 X 100 m medley relay he set the world record of winning 7 gold medals in a single olympic event beating the last world record of 6 gold medals by Mark Spitz.

Phelps set the world records in his 6 compettion and in 1 he set the olympic records as well. In last summer olympic Athens 2004 he won the 6 gold medals and miss this opportumity by 1 Gold medal but this time his past experience really helped him a lot and he is able to beat the records.

Here is the details of Phelps win in Beijing 2008

Date	Event	Results	Time
August 10	400 m individual medley	Gold Medal,W R	4:03.84
August 11	4 x 100 m freestyle relay	Gold Medal,W R	3:08.24
August 12	200 m freestyle	Gold Medal,W R	1:42.96
August 13	200 m butterfly	Gold Medal, W R	1:52.03
August 13	4 x 200 m freestyle relay	Gold Medal, W R	6:58.56
August 15	200 m individual medley	Gold Medal, W R	1:54.23
August 16	100 m butterfly	Gold Medal, O R	50.58
August 17	4 x 100 m medley relay	Gold Medal, W R

W R = World Records
O R = Olympic Record