Tao Li

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Medal record
Swimming
Asian Games
Gold	2006 Asian Games	50m butterfly
Bronze	2006 Asian Games	100m butterfly
Southeast Asian Games
Gold	2005 SEA Games	100m backstroke
Gold	2005 SEA Games	200m backstroke
Gold	2005 SEA Games	200m butterfly
Gold	2005 SEA Games	4x 100m medley
Bronze	2005 SEA Games	100m butterfly

Tao Li (Chinese: 陶李, Pinyin: Táo Lǐ; born 10 January 1990 in Hubei, China) is a competitive swimmer with Singaporean citizenship since 2005 after she moved to the country in 2002.^[1]^[2]

Apart from having represented the Republic at the SEA Games and Asian Games, Tao, a Singapore Sports School student, currently holds several national records. She took part in the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. [1] In between those competitions she won four gold and a bronze medal at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games held in the Philippines. In December 2006, Tao won a gold medal at the 50m butterfly in Doha's 2006 Asian Games, beating China's multi-gold medallist Xu Yanwei and breaking her own national record in the process.^[3] She also won a bronze medal at the 100m butterfly earlier in the tournament. At the 2007 SEA Games in Korat, Thailand, she became Singapore's most bemedalled athlete at the Games, winning a total of 4 gold medals. Earlier in the year, she also became the first Singaporean female swimmer to reach a World Swimming Championships final, finishing 7th in the 50 Fly. Her target now is to qualify for the 100m butterfly final at the Beijing Olympics 2008. Tao is a fan of singer Stefanie Sun.

[edit] National records

(correct as of 27 December 2007)

50m Backstroke - 29.20, 4 December 2006, 15th Asian Games
100m Backstroke - 1:03.17, 20 June 2007, 3rd Singapore National Swim Championships
200m Backstroke - 2:17.55, 29 November 2005, 23rd SEA Games
50m Butterfly - 26.73, 7 December 2006, 15th Asian Games
100m Butterfly - 58.96, 3 December 2006, 15th Asian Games
200m Butterfly - 2:14.11, 3 December 2005, 23rd SEA Games
4x100m Freestyle Relay - 3:53.33 3 December 2006, 15th Asian Games
4x100m Medley Relay - 4:13.18, 10 December 2007, 24th SEA Games