Katii Tang Tsoi-lam (; born 29 August 2001), is a

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. She graduated from the Victoria Shanghai Academy. From September 2019, she started studying in the

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Biography

Katii Tang started to learn swimming at the age of four. She initially thought practising swimming daily was exhausting and boring. However, having won five gold medals in a competition, she started to enjoy swimming for its sense of accomplishment. In August 2015, Tang participated in the 100m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 800m freestyle, and 1500m freestyle event and five relay events in the

2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships The 5th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, were held on August 25–30, 2015, in Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about ...

. The best result was ranking 25th in the 1500m freestyle event. In November 2016, Tang along with

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, and Sze Hang Yu came 3rd in the freestyle relay event of the

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with a time of 8:16.37. Tang ranked 7th in the 200m freestyle and 800m freestyle event. In September 2017, Tang ranked 6th in the 200m freestyle event of the

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. Later that month, she achieved his personal best in the 800m freestyle event of the

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Hong Kong meet with a time of 8:43.01, ranking 3rd. In August 2018, Tang along with Camille Cheng,

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, and Sze Hang Yu, representing

, came 3rd in freestyle relay event in Swimming at the 2018 Asian Games.

Swimming records

Tang has held one junior record and one Inter-school Swimming Competition record.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tang, Katii 2001 births Living people Asian Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2018 Asian Games Hong Kong female freestyle swimmers Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Hong Kong