Career
He represented his nation Singapore in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has also been training throughout most of his sporting career for the Singapore Armed Forces. Tan made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed thirty-eighth in the Laser class with a Netto grade of 275, finishing closer behind Malta"s Mario Aquilina by a three-point deficit. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tan qualified for his second Singaporean team, as a 29-year-old, in the Laser class by placing seventy-seventh and obtaining a berth from the World Championships in Bodrum, Turkey.
Unlike his previous Olympics, Tan posted a Netto grade of 322 points to upgrade his position to thirty-seventh in a fleet of forty-two sailors.
