Career
He is a single-time Olympian and a former Taiwanese record holder in the 400 and 1500 m freestyle. Li competed in a long-distance freestyle double at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He posted FINA B-standards of 4:03.63 (400 m freestyle) and 16:08.43 (1500 m freestyle) from the National University Games in Taipei.
On the first day of the Games, Li placed forty-first in the 400 m freestyle.
Swimming in heat one, he held off Egypt"s Hani Elteir by more than a body length to take a third spot in a lifetime best of 4:03.10. Nearly a week later, in the 1500 m freestyle, Li participated in the same heat against Czechoslovakian Republic"s Vlastimil Burda and Kyrgyzstan"s Ivan Ivanov.