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Meagen Nay Personal information Full name Meagen Marree Nay Nickname(s) Megs or Meggie Nationality 
AustraliaBorn 5 October 1988
Gold Coast, QueenslandHeight 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Backstroke, Freestyle Club St Peter's Western, Queensland Medal recordWomen's swimming Competitor for AustraliaWorld Championships (LC) Bronze 2009 Rome 4×100m Freestyle Commonwealth Games Gold 2010 Delhi 200m Backstroke Gold 2010 Delhi 4×200m Freestyle Pan Pacific Championships Silver 2010 Irvine 4×200 m freestyle Meagen Marree Nay (born 5 October 1988) is an Olympic swimmer from Australia. She competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in the 200m backstroke and placed seventh in the final. Nay is the Australian record holder in the 200m backstroke.[1]
She is the daughter of Robert Nay, who competed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. However, her father did not live to see her swim, having been killed in a car accident in 1992. Her brother, Amos Nay, was killed in July 2009, also in a car accident.[2] Nay was due to swim the 200m backstroke and 200m freestyle at the 2009 World Championships, but returned home to grieve her brother's death after swimming in the preliminaries of the 4×100m freestyle relay, which earned a bronze medal in the final.[3]
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi Nay won the 200m 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.
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Commonwealth Champions in Women's 200 m Backstroke 1962 – 1966: 220 yards • 1970 – 2010: 200 metres1962: Linda Ludgrove (ENG) • 1966: Linda Ludgrove (ENG) • 1970: Lynne Watson (AUS) • 1974: Wendy Cook (CAN) • 1978: Cheryl Gibson (CAN) • 1982: Lisa Forrest (AUS) • 1986: Georgina Parkes (AUS) • 1990: Anna Simcic (NZL) • 1994: Nicole Stevenson (AUS) • 1998: Katy Sexton (ENG) • 2002: Sarah Price (ENG) • 2006: Jo Fargus (AUS) • 2010: Meagen Nay (AUS)
Commonwealth Champions in Women's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay 1986: Australia (Burke, Pearson, Thorpe, Baumer) • 1990: Australia (Lewis, Elford, McMahon, McDonald) • 1994: Australia (Windsor, Lewis, Livingstone, O'Neill) • 1998: Australia (Windsor, Greville, Munz, O'Neill) • 2002: England (Legg, Lee, Fargus, Pickering) • 2006: Australia (Lenton, Barratt, Stubbins, Mackenzie) • 2010: Australia (Palmer, Evans, Barratt, Nay)
Categories:- 1988 births
- Living people
- Australian female swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Australia
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Backstroke swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Female freestyle swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Australian swimming biography stubs
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