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Title: Don Schollander

Facts about Don schollander:

Full name:  Donald Arthur Schollander
Nationality: United States
Nickname: Don don
Born:  30th 1946
Height: 5 ft 11 in 1.80 m
Weight: 174 lb (79 kg)
Sport: swimming Club: Santa Clara Swim Club
College team: Yale university
Don: He got married  

Don Schollander full name is Donald Arthur Schollander. He was born in april the 30th 1946. Don is an  american competition swimmer. He is an olympic champion and a world record holder. Don won four gold medals and one silver medal at the 1964 and 1968 summer olympics. With five gold medals, he was the most successful athlete at the 1964 Olympics. He won four gold medals in tokyo.


Schollander was born in  Charlotte north carolina and learned competitive swimming from his uncle, Newt Perry, who ran a swim school in Florida. As a boy Don moved with his family to Lake Oswego, Oregon. Although his first sporting passion was football, he was too small to compete in high school football. Instead, he joined Lake Oswego High School's swim team, and in 1960, helped lead the team to an Oregon state swimming championship as a freshman.

Michael Phelps


Full name:  Michael Fred Phelps
Nationality: United States
Nickname: MP; The Baltimore Bullet ,Flying Fish
Born:  June 30, 1985 (age 28
Height: 194 lb (88 kg
Weight:6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Sport: swimming Club:  North Baltimore Aquatic Club





Michael Fred Phelps  was born June 30, 1985 is an American swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals. Michael also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (18, double the second highest record holders), Olympic gold medals in individual events , and Olympic medals in individual events for a male. In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Michael took the record for the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. Five of those victories were in individual events, tying the single Games record. In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Michael won four golds and two silver medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Games for the third Olympics in a row.

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