Tang Yi

Tang Yi is a Chinese competitive swimmer who specialised in freestyle events and was born in Shanghai on 8 January 1993. She swam for China at the 2008 Summer Olympics and returned four years later to win a bronze medal in the 100 metre freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Her record at youth level is unusually deep: at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics she took six gold medals, winning the 50, 100 and 200 metre freestyle and relay titles. Beyond the Olympic programme she has collected eight medals at the Asian Games, six of them gold and two silver, seven medals at the World Championships, two gold, one silver and four bronze, and four medals at the Summer Universiade, two gold and two bronze. Her early international results include a silver in the 200 metre freestyle at the 2006 World Junior Championships and a relay title at the 2006 Asian Games.