Michael Phelps is an American swimmer. He is best known for being the most decorated Olympic competitor in history after competing in the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

At 19 years and seven months, Mitchell became the youngest U.S. male to swim at an Olympics since 2004. He was seeded 13th. That meant he should not have made the final. But he did. In Saturday’s ...

Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen is targeting a new world record at the Irish Swimming Championships which get underway in ...

(Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images) Anthony Ervin became the oldest American swimmer to win an individual Olympic gold medal Friday night, winning the 50-meter freestyle by 0.01 over France’s ...

Heilman will become the youngest U.S. male Olympic swimmer since Michael Phelps made the team for Sydney at age 15. Luke Whitlock, 18, had laid claim to that distinction a night earlier with his ...

who is only the ninth American swimmer to qualify for four Olympic games, and Caeleb Dressel, who won five gold medals in Tokyo. Michael Phelps, the most decorated male athlete in Olympic history ...