WhenPhelps won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, he broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps already tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games by winning six gold and two bronze medals. Officialresults of the swimming 100m butterfly men event at the Beijing Summer Olympics. Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 2008. Official results of the swimming 100m butterfly men event at the Beijing Summer Olympics. michael phelps. Results: Notes: S. SRB. milorad cavic. Results: Notes: B. AUS. andrew lauterstein. Results Beijing2008 Olympic Games - Sports, Nations, Records: The Olympic Games celebrate an Olympiad, or period of four years. The first Olympiad of modern times was celebrated in 1896, and subsequent Olympiads are numbered consecutively, even when no Games take place (as was the case in , and 1944). Olympic Winter Games have been Phelpsafter winning a medal in the 2004 Olympics in Athens. During the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Phelps broke the record for most first place finishes in a single Olympic Games with eight RobertKitson in Beijing. Sat 16 Aug 2008 23.29 EDT. What do you give the man who has everything? The answer for the insatiable Michael Phelps is one last gold medal to add to a heap of The28-time Olympic medalist made the journey to Tokyo — but not to swim. For 16 years, when sports fans would tune into the Summer Olympics, they'd see none other than Michael Phelps. The all Themen's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 9–10 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China. [1] U.S. swimmer MichaelFred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. After the 2008 Summer Olympics, Phelps started the Michael Phelps Foundation, which focuses on growing the sport of swimming and promoting healthier lifestyles Athens1896. St. Louis 1904. London 1908. Stockholm 1912. Paris 1924. Find out who took home gold, silver and bronze in 2008. Official results of the swimming 200m freestyle men event at the Beijing Summer Olympics. CNN—. Michael Phelps set out with the goal “to change the sport of swimming.”. And, owning a record 23 Olympic gold medals after his final race at Rio 2016 ended with victory in Saturday Kw8ztTu.