Felipe Muñoz

Felipe Muñoz Kapamas, born on 3 February 1951, is a Mexican former breaststroke swimmer who won the gold medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and also competed at the 1972 Games. His mother was of Greek descent. He is widely known by the nickname el tibio, meaning lukewarm in Spanish, for which sources offer different explanations: that he refused to swim in an unheated pool, or, according to the International Swimming Hall of Fame, that his mother came from Rio Frio, Cold River, and his father from Aguascalientes, Hot Waters. Since 2008 he has been president of the Mexican Olympic Committee, and he has served as a deputy in the Mexican Congress.