Felipe Lima
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| Full name | Felipe Ferreira Lima |
| Nationality |
 Brazil
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| Born |
April 5, 1985 Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil |
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 88 kg (194 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke |
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Felipe Ferreira Lima (born April 5, 1985) is a Brazilian swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's 100-metre breaststroke, finishing in 8th place in his semi-final and failing to reach the final.
Felipe Lima entered the 2006 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Shanghai, where he finished 12th in the 50-metre breaststroke and 17th in the 100-metre breaststroke. At the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Victoria, he finished 16th in the 100-metre breaststroke.
Lima previously held the South American record for the 4×100-metre medley relay in an Olympic sized pool, with a time of 3:39.30, obtained in September 9, 2006 in Rio de Janeiro with Leonardo Guedes, Fernando Silva and César Cielo. He also broke the South American record in the 100-metre breaststroke, in a time of 1:01.56 on September 10, 2006, at the same competition in Rio, making him the first swimmer from Mato Grosso to hold a South American record in swimming. On December 16, 2006 he improved his record for the 100-metre breaststroke, doing 1:01.52.
At the 2007 World Aquatics Championships he finished 24th in the 50-metre breaststroke and 30th in the 100-metre breaststroke. Participating in the 2007 Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand, Lima won the silver medal in the 50-metre breaststroke, lowering the South American record to 27.94 seconds and becoming the first man on the continent to swim below 28 seconds in that event.
At the 2007 Pan American Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Lima earned a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay. He also finished 5th in the 100-metre breaststroke.
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