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 2004 Summer
Olympics in Athens and the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. 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.
