August 13th, 2008 –
Michael Phelps won his 11th career gold medal on this date. With 11 gold medals, Phelps had officially won more gold medals than any other Olympic athlete in history. Between the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics, Phelps has 28 medals in total – 23 of them gold medals, more than double the count of his nearest rivals..
Surprisingly, Phelps’ 11th overall gold medal would not be his greatest accomplishment at the 2008 Olympic Games. By the end of the Beijing Games, Phelps had won a total of 8 gold medals, which broke the previous record of seven held by Mark Spitz. When asked about his accomplishment, Phelps shared, “Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are.”
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