FAN Hau-Li

World Championships

Year	Location	10km	5km - TR X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	17	13

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	10km
2018	Tokyo, JPN	7

World Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	10km
2019	1 x 3rd, 1 x 22nd
2018	1 x 14th, 1 x 38th, 1 x 47th
2017	1 x 3rd, 1 x 29th, 1 x 38th

World Series - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location
3	2019	10km	Lac-Megantic, QC, CAN
3	2017	10km	Lac St. Jean, QC, CAN
14	2018	10km	Beau Vallon, SEY
22	2019	10km	Doha, QAT
29	2017	10km	Qiandaohu, CHN
38	2018	10km	Abu Dhabi, UAE
38	2017	10km	Hong Kong, CHN
47	2018	10km	Doha, QAT

Legend
X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, TR - Team Relay, TTT - Team Time Trial

Howler [his coaches at the University of British Columbia decided a nickname would help with his initiation into the team]. (ubyssey.ca, 01 Jul 2019)

Biology - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CAN

English, Mandarin

High Performance Centre - Vancouver [Canada]

Brad Dingey [club]; Mark Perry [national]; John Atkinson [national]

He has competed in swimming at national level in Canada. (ubyssey.ca, 01 Jul 2019)

He combined swimming with figure skating at a young age, but decided to focus on swimming at age 12. He began open water swimming in 2016. (ubyssey.ca, 01 Jul 2019; gothunderbirds.ca, 27 Jul 2017)

He suffers from asthma, which was a factor in his decision to choose swimming over figure skating. "I decided that I would switch to swimming just because I had more of a skill set in that sport. It also helped with the asthma." Canadian open water swimmer and Olympic bronze medallist Richard Weinberger came to train at the University of British Columbia ahead of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Fan's coach at the university, Steve Price, had the idea of getting him to swim with Weinberger. "Steve thought I had an opportunity to just do open water as well, because I seemed to keep up with him [Weinberger] pretty well in most workouts." (ubyssey.ca, 01 Jul 2019)

"The unpredictability about open water is what I think makes it interesting, because not every race is going to be the same." (ubyssey.ca, 01 Jul 2019)