Tang Muhan

In this Chinese name, the family name is Tang.

Tang Muhan

File:Tang Muhan - 2021.png Tang in 2021
Personal information
Nationality	Chinese
Born	(2003-09-04) 4 September 2003 Changchun, Jilin, China
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record Women's swimming Representing China Olympic Games File:Olympic rings.svg Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 4 × 200 m freestyle Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris 4 × 200 m freestyle World Championships (LC) Bronze medal – third place 2022 Budapest 200 m freestyle

Tang Muhan (Chinese: 汤慕涵, born 4 September 2003) is a Chinese swimmer. She competed in the women's 400 metre freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Early life

Born in 2003 in Changchun, Tang started to practice swimming at the age of 7 in 2010. In 2011, she was sent to a swimming club in Jilin for training and in 2012, she was selected by the swimming team of the Bayi Engineering Brigade of the People's Liberation Army and trained with the Bayi Team.

Swimming career

In December 2014, Tang officially joined the Shenzhen sports' swimming team and began her career as a professional athlete.

At the 800 meter freestyle at the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, she achieved eighth position. In her other two individual starts and all three women's relays, she was unable to place among the top eight. On 28 July 2021, at women's 4 × 200 m freestyle during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, she along with Yang Junxuan, Zhang Yufei and Li Bingjie won the first gold medal for China in the event, and also attained world-record and Olympic record finish at 7:40.33.