He was born with club foot and had 2 surgeries when he was just 4 weeks, after his second surgery when his foot was on the right position he had an infection which made under his knew and specially his tendon stop to grown disabling his right foot movements so as weakness from his knee below.
He started swimming when he was 8 months as physiotherapy. he also tried many different sports but his passion since a baby was swimming. His first competitions was for "Academia Movimento" located in Olinda-PE, he competed for 4 years for his team, in 2007 he moved to João Pessoa - PB and joined the state team C.I.E.F. where he archived regional gold medals and twice 3rd place at nationals competitions with able bodied swimmers (non-disabled). Phelipe was part of the Brazilian team that travelled to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Paralympics.
He also participated of the Para-Panamerican in Guadalajara - Mexico in 2011 where he archived 5 medals, 3 silver medals (50m,100m, 400m freestyle) and 2 gold medals(4x100m freestyle and 4x100m medley).
There he competed in the 100-metre and 50-metre freestyle events where he won silver behind compatriot Andre Brasil, he also swam 400-metre freestyle where he failed to make the final. He also competed as part of the Brazilian 4x100m and 4x100m but even with the gold and silver medal winning S10 swimmers Brazil could not manage to win a medal finishing fourth and eighth respectively. On his next Paralympic game in London2012 he archived another silver medal on the 100-metre freestyle, fourth place at the 50-metre freestyle, event that he won a medal in Beijing 2008 and fifth at the 100-metre butterfly.
