Rick Say

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birthdate =birth date and age|1979|05|18
birthplace =Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
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Rick Say (born May 18, 1979) is a Canadian swimmer. Say swam as a child for the Salmon Arm Sockeye Swim Club with his two brothers and two sisters. At the age of 18, he began attending the University of Victoria and started to swim seriously. As of 2006, he swims full-time at the Pacific-Sport National Training Centre in Victoria. He was born in Salmon Arm, British Columbia.

Say has been a mainstay of the National Swim Team since 1998. His career to date includes 20 national titles and Canadian records in five individual events (100 free, 200 free, 400 free (scm), 200 free and 400 free (lcm) – not to mention the vast number of national relay records he has been involved in. He has competed for Canada at two Olympic Games (2000 and 2004) where he was a finalist in both in the 200 freestyle. He has been to two World Championships (2001, 2003) where he was an integral part of Canada’s relays which swam in the finals. At the 2004 World Short Course Championships, Say won 3 medals – a silver in the 200 free, and bronze in both the 100 free and 4x100 free relay, both in Canadian record time. At the Commonwealth Games (1998, 2002) he earned 1 silver medal and 2 bronze medals. He has been to two Pan Pacific Championships (1999, 2002) winning 3 bronze medals, all in relays and placing a career high 4th for the 200 freestyle. At the Pan American Games (1999) he was a dual bronze medalist in the 400 free and 4x200 free relay.

Say created a minor controversy after the 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay in the 2004 Summer Olympics when immediately after the race and on a live national television broadcast, he expressed his disappointment in his team's 5th place performance in harsh terms. His team, however, bounced back to win two silver medals at the 2005 FINA World Championships in Montreal in 2005.

Since 2004, Say has been less successful, losing his national 200 metre freestyle title to Brent Hayden, from Vancouver, British Columbia. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, Say swam a world-class time of 1 minute 48 seconds, but finished out of the medals in fourth place.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he was a member of the Canadian team that finished sixth 4x100m Freestyle event and fifth in the 4x200m.

External links

* Videos & Results on [http://www.swimpassion.net/Athletes/ricksay.html SwimPassion.net]

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