Felipe Muñoz

Felipe Muñoz

File:Felipe Muñoz 1969 Paraguayan stamp.jpg Felipe Muñoz on a 1969 Paraguayan stamp
Personal information
Full name	Felipe Muñoz Kapamas
Nickname	Tibio
Nationality	Mexico
Born	(1951-02-03) February 3, 1951 Mexico City, Mexico
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Medal record Representing Mexico Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City 200 m breaststroke Pan American Games 1971 Cali 200 m breaststroke 1971 Cali 200 m medley Summer Universiade 1973 Moscow 200 m breaststroke

Felipe Muñoz Kapamas (born February 3, 1951) is a retired breaststroke swimmer from Mexico. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in the 200 m event in 1968. Since 2008, he is the President of the Mexican Olympic Committee. Since 2012 he serves as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.

Muñoz is of Greek descent on his mother's side.

His nickname is "el tibio", which means "lukewarm" in Spanish. It was coined because Felipe's father was from Aguascalientes, meaning "hot waters", and his mother was from the town of Río Frío, Mexico State, meaning "cold river". He also had the odd habit of refusing to swim in an unheated pool.