Classify Swimmer Michael Phelps

[Apina]

Of English, Irish, German, Scottish, Welsh descent.
http://ethnicelebs.com/michael-phelps

http://greenobles.com/data_images/michael-phelps/michael-phelps-04.jpg
http://greenobles.com/data_images/michael-phelps/michael-phelps-02.jpg
http://greenobles.com/data_images/michael-phelps/michael-phelps-07.jpg
http://www.magx.com/www/images/people/michael-phelps-won-his-first/michael-phelps.jpg
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/pc/Michael+Phelps+Rebecca+Soni+attending+press+VbIxwj tTFQ0l.jpg
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/pc/Michael+Phelps+Rebecca+Soni+attending+press+0ziaZH M5kFCl.jpg
http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/news/080922/michael_phelps240.jpg
http://images.starpulse.com/pictures/2009/08/07/previews/Michael%20Phelps-ASG-021221.jpg
http://cdn04.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/phelps-reality/michael-phelps-reality-tv-04.jpg

Considering his background, I would say he is on the Atlantid-Keltic-Nordid spectrum with some CM.

[kvarc]

he has a bit of pseudo-balkan look

[Ugo Tognazzi]

British looking

Aurignacioid
extremely leptoprosopic North-Atlantid (Nordic/Mediterranean)

[Apina]

This guy has a similar phenotype:
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u380/hummelbiene/k1.jpg
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u380/hummelbiene/k2.jpg

[Pallantides]

Neolithic farmer phenotype

[PetiteParisienne]

he has a bit of pseudo-balkan look

It's not unusual for that to happen to people with Irish blood.

[kvarc]

It's not unusual for that to happen to people with Irish blood.

we all say Balkans, but in fact we all mean Yugoslavia :D

[aimar]

This guy has a similar phenotype:
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u380/hummelbiene/k1.jpg
http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u380/hummelbiene/k2.jpg

or this one on the right, in both pics, he resembles phelps as well

[British-Wolf]

he's an odd one. I couldn't really say exactly

[Corvus]

He is definitly not British nor Anglo Saxon looking, but also not Irish
Not even Paleoatlantic. I guess he has a multiethnic background

[Apina]

He is definitly not British nor Anglo Saxon looking, but also not Irish
Not even Paleoatlantic. I guess he has a multiethnic background
The guy who I posted who looks darker than Phelps, is British.

[Corvus]

The guy who I posted who looks darker than Phelps, is British.

He looks untypical as well. But this is not about being dark or light pigmented, its the whole facial structure

[only1]

Med-Dinarid.

Pre-Aryan obviously.

[SilverKnight]

Atlanto with heavy CM and some Dinaric.

[Rouxinol]

Acromegaloid.

[Sikeliot]

There are Portuguese people with his phenotype.. it's the horsy Atlantid look.

[Apina]

There are Portuguese people with his phenotype.. it's the horsy Atlantid look.
I don't think he looks Portuguese at all, but I'll let the Portuguese members comment on that...

[Christian552]

He looks like he could be British. Not much else comes to mind, he is really mixed so...

[Turkophagos]

Atlantid. Ugly as hell.

[Furor]

Botched atlanto-med/brunn?(morphologically not metrically) mix or http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purosangue_inglese:laugh::laugh:

[Rouxinol]

I don't think he looks Portuguese at all, but I'll let the Portuguese members comment on that...

He's not quintessential looking, yet if I saw him on the street I wouldn't think of him as foreign. He could fit all along the Atlantic coast of Europe in my opinion, but western/Atlantic France and Britain would be my first guesses. There are some phenotypes resembling him yet not acromegalic as his. He definitely has a pathologic excess of growth hormone... Atlantid/Cro-Magnid + excess growth hormone.

[Welter]

Odd looking Atlantid.

[Damião de Góis]

I don't think he looks portuguese, he's too weird looking. Weird in the sense that he would look different from most.

Here he is compared with some portuguese swimmers

http://www.thefablife.com/files/2012/07/Michael-Phelps1.jpg

vs

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M0NNiBdwiJM/TGKkYNc221I/AAAAAAAARRo/_E3VFyfYx20/s1600/Luis+Neto3.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_I8qMrk4fkjY/Sxd--sKZhwI/AAAAAAAABXk/nVBqq982wzs/s1600/athlete_img_230.jpg

http://cfvilacondense.no.sapo.pt/images/xximeet.gif

Even some with more "extreme northern looks" look different from phelps:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6u0o8Y-XoNc/TmaGtNfAeFI/AAAAAAAAApI/VXI-H9tHdRk/s1600/CN+AA+10+Km+002.jpg

http://www.openwaterportugal.com/images/QuemSomos_miguel_clip_image002.jpg

[kvarc]

he`s just an ugly atlanid type :D

[Apina]

I don't think he looks portuguese, he's too weird looking. Weird in the sense that he would look different from most.

Here he is compared with some portuguese swimmers

http://www.thefablife.com/files/2012/07/Michael-Phelps1.jpg

vs

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M0NNiBdwiJM/TGKkYNc221I/AAAAAAAARRo/_E3VFyfYx20/s1600/Luis+Neto3.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_I8qMrk4fkjY/Sxd--sKZhwI/AAAAAAAABXk/nVBqq982wzs/s1600/athlete_img_230.jpg

http://cfvilacondense.no.sapo.pt/images/xximeet.gif

Even some with more "extreme northern looks" look different from phelps:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6u0o8Y-XoNc/TmaGtNfAeFI/AAAAAAAAApI/VXI-H9tHdRk/s1600/CN+AA+10+Km+002.jpg

http://www.openwaterportugal.com/images/QuemSomos_miguel_clip_image002.jpg
Todos eles sao muito mais bonitos do que ele :D

[Anthropologique]

Phelps is just an ugly Paleo-Atlantid with secondary CM characteristics.

[Corvus]

Phelps is just an ugly Paleo-Atlantid with secondary CM characteristics.

Ugly but extremly succesful

[Gospodine]

he has a bit of pseudo-balkan look

My sentiments exactly.

He looks like a lot of very tall and goofy-looking Dinarids (especially Balkan basketball players).

[ETKearne]

He looks like a Dinaricized Nordo-Mediterranean. I have always thought he was probably of British Isles descent, and according to the OP, looks like I am right. He just assimilated some of that Bell-Beaker cragginess into the normal Nordo-Med Brit type.

[Incal]

With those ears it's no surprise he won all those medals, it was like cheating.

[op135]

With those ears it's no surprise he won all those medals, it was like cheating.

hey now, don't say it too loud he might have heard you

[kvarc]

My sentiments exactly.

He looks like a lot of very tall and goofy-looking Dinarids (especially Balkan basketball players).

I think his face is a bit deformed, but I`am not sure why

[Marino]

Pred. Atlanto-Nordid for sure, some minor Cromagnid influence.

Acromegaloid indeed.

[Gospodine]

With those ears it's no surprise he won all those medals, it was like cheating.

Nah it was the weed that did it. Michael "Stone Fish" Phelps.

[Rouxinol]

He's certainly been given human growth hormone during his early teens to improve his skills by enlarging his feet, hands and height. He looks totally fake and shouldn't be allowed to take part in events such as the Olympics. And they raised suspicions on the young female Chinese atlethe... Lol.

[Gospodine]

He's certainly been given human growth hormone during his early teens to improve his skills by enlarging his feet, hands and height.

Could be said of 80% of professional athletes in reality.

In this day and age even golfers and baseball players are juicing as are female athletes (an emerging trend).

The ones who get caught just don't know how to cycle properly (usually younger) and/or can't afford the undetectable stuff.

It really needs to be exposed in a much more public way because at this rate, doping itself may as well be an Olympic event; considering there's athletes out there taking inhumane amounts of PED's with testosterone ratios that could kill a normal person and yet they still manage to live and breathe and compete in physically-demanding events while dealing with and masking serious side-effects.

[Apina]

^
Perfect example: woman weightlifter competing in this Olympic Games:
http://asv-ladenburg.pytalhost.de/Joomla/images/stories/Bilder_Gewichtheben/ulrich2.jpg
http://www.team-london-mrn.de/cms/images/image284594.jpg
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Christin+Ulrich+Olympics+Day+3+Weightlifting+OR60C zWZ8ifl.jpg
http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Olympics+Day+3+Weightlifting+17ffEwe4E3_l.jpg

[Leon_C]

I think he is atlantid with some keltid influence (an ugly one) I don't think he has dinarid influence I agree that he has the characteristics of someone who has taken HGH, tall, big hands, fee, ears, strong brow, deep voice and slowing of speech. Some dinarids have some of these features naturally but michael phelps has all of them.

[Anglojew]

Weird jaw.

[Ulla]

British looking

Aurignacioid
extremely leptoprosopic North-Atlantid (Nordic/Mediterranean)

[Sharkeatpeople]

East Nordic witch Med
morphology / metric identical, shape of his jaw identical East Nordic,but his pigmentation Mediterranean
http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=38188&d=1380896264

[Roy]

East Nordic witch Med
morphology / metric identical, shape of his jaw identical,but his pigmentation Mediterranean
38188

Yes there's some analogy.

[Norb]

bump

[Kouros]

With those ears and that cranial vault he looks like he could be 1/2 Albanian or other Dinaric Alp ethnicity

[Decius]

Atlantid

[Xacal]

Keltic Nordid

[Odin]

Atlantid + Dinarid.

[Norb]

bump

[aherne]

He looks like a West South Slav: typical Serbo-Croatian... A mix of Pontid, Dinaric and Corded

[Mixdguy17]

I think he looks very Iberian. I think he passes in all of Western Europe.