butterfly, backstroke, breastroke, freestyle, IM, medley relay, freestyle relay
He set a world record in the following: 400 IM, 200 IM, 4x200 Free Relay, 4x100 Free Relay, 4x100 Medley Relay, 200 Freestyle, 200 Butterfly. Phelps also broke a Olympic Record in the 100 Butterfly.
At the Olympics, both men and women compete in the 4x100 meter freestyle relay, 4x200 meter freestyle relay, and 4x100 meter medley relay.
There are multiple relay races: 4x100, 4x100, distance medley, and other less used relays. Every relay has 4 members.
in individual medley (IM) the order of strokes is fly (butterfly) back (stroke), breast (stroke), and free (front crawl) In a relay it's fly, breast, back free
He was part of a world record relay team (from USC), but he never actually made or ran in the Olympics. I believe that the '68 US Olympic relay team beat that USC record in Mexico.
200 freestyle, 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly, 200 individual medley, 400 individual medley, 4x100 freestyle relay, 4x200 freestyle relay, and 4x100 medley relay.
Jodie Henry of Australia won three gold medals at the 2004 Games in Athens ... 100 meter freestyle, 4x100 meter medley relay, and 4x100 meter freestyle relay.
Swimmer Matt Biondi won 8 gold medals in Olympic competition: 1984 - 4x100 meter freestyle relay 1988 - 50 meter freestyle, 100 meter freestyle, 4x100 meter medley relay, 4x100 meter freestyle relay, 4x200 meter freestyle relay 1992 - 4x100 meter freestyle relay, 4x100 meter medley relay
In the individual medley it's fly, back, breast, free. But in medley relay it's back, breast, fly, free It's different in the relay because backstroke has to start a the medley relay, there's no such thing as a '4X2L Backstoke relay, it's imposable.
He has broken 37 world record, Many times just lowering his (then) current world records.37 :)
Michael Phelps has won the following Olympic gold medals. 2004 Athens Summer Olympics: 400 m individual medley, 100 m butterfly, 200 m butterfly, 200 m individual medley, 4×200 m freestyle, 4×100 m medley. 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics: 400 m individual medley, 4×100 m freestyle relay, 200 m freestyle, 200 m butterfly, 4×200 m freestyle relay, 200 m individual medley, 100 m butterfly, 4×100 m medley relay.