Meagen Nay
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| Full name | Meagen Marree Nay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | "Megz" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 October 1988 Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | St Peters Western | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Michael Bohl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Meagen Marree Nay (born 5 October 1988) is a competitive swimmer from Australia. She competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in the 200-metre backstroke and placed seventh in the final. Nay is a former Australian record holder in the 200-metre backstroke.[1]
She is the daughter of Robert Nay, who competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. However, her father did not live to see her swim, having been killed in a car crash in 1992. Her brother, Amos Nay, was killed in July 2009, also in a car crash.[2] Nay was due to swim the 200-metre backstroke and 200-metre freestyle at the 2009 World Championships, but returned home to grieve her brother's death after swimming in the preliminaries of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, which earned a bronze medal in the final.[3]
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, Nay won the 200-metre backstroke in a Games record of 2.07.56.
Nay trains alongside Stephanie Rice at the St Peter's Western Swimming Club under Michael Bohl.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 200 m backstroke, finishing 5th in final.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nay's Official Swimming Australia Bio" (PDF). clubsonline.com.au.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Swimming star Nay's brother killed". abc.net.au. 26 July 2009.
- ^ "Nay heads home". abc.net.au. 28 July 2009.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Meagen Nay". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
External links
[edit]- Meagen Nay at World Aquatics
- Meagen Nay at Swimming Australia at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 September 2015)
- Meagen Nay at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Meagen Nay at Olympics.com
- Meagen Nay at Olympedia
- Meagen Nay at Commonwealth Games Australia
- Meagen Nay at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from the Gold Coast, Queensland
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Australian female freestyle swimmers
- Australian female backstroke swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games