Rafael "Rafa" Múñoz Pérez (born 3 March 1988) is an Olympic swimmer from Spain. He competed for the Spanish Olympic team at the

2008 Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fr ...

. He was born in Córdoba. On 5 April 2009, at the 2009 Spanish Championships, he swam a 22.43 in the long-course 50 butterfly, going under the existing

World Record A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organizatio ...

of 22.96 by South Africa's

Roland Schoeman Roland Mark Schoeman OIS (born 4 July 1980) is a South African and American former swimmer was a world record holder in multiple events, and was a member of the South African swimming team at the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. He ...

. This time, however, was not recognized as the world record until 22 June, when the governing body of aquatic sports,

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, finally accepted the controversial swimsuit he and many other swimmers had been wearing as they achieved such times. His world record was broken by Andriy Govorov in July 2018. He was coached by Romain Barnier in France, as part of the Cercle des Nageurs de Marseille team.

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* * * * 1988 births Living people Spanish male butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers for Spain Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics World record setters in swimming World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming 21st-century Spanish sportsmen {{Spain-swimming-bio-stub