曾为1936年第11届奥运会中华体育代表团中唯一的女子游泳选手杨秀琼,早在旧中国第五届全运会,即以连获四项游泳冠军而轰动一时,被誉为“美人鱼”。她参加11届奥运会返回香港的第二年,与香港著名骑马师陶柏林(湖南长沙人,毕业于上海复旦大学)结婚,生子女各一。太平洋战争爆发后,杨、陶夫妇偕子女移居上海,后又到重庆。 Yang Xiuqiong, the only woman swimmer in the Chinese sports delegation at the 11th Olympic Games in 1936, was hailed as the “Mermaid” as early as the fifth National Games in old China when she was hit with four consecutive swimming championships. She attended the 11th Olympic Games returned to Hong Kong the second year, with well-known Hong Kong riding horse Tao Bo Lin (Changsha, Hunan Province, graduated from Shanghai Fudan University), one child. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Yang and Tao couple moved to Shanghai with their children and later to Chongqing.