Who did Michael Phelps marry in 2016?

Michael Phelps married Nicole Johnson in 2016. Johnson, a former Miss California USA, first met Phelps at the 2007 ESPY Awards. They began dating in 2009, separated before the 2012 Olympics, and reunited in 2014 before becoming engaged in 2015.

The couple married in a private ceremony on June 13, 2016. News of the marriage became widely known later that year, after reports described it as a private or secret wedding. They have since had four sons.

A common mix-up is confusing Johnson with Phelps’s fellow American swimmers. Natalie Coughlin, Missy Franklin, and Amanda Beard were prominent Olympic competitors, but none was his spouse. Johnson was a beauty-pageant winner and communications graduate of the University of Southern California, not a competitive swimmer on Phelps’s Olympic teams.