Bryan Tay (born Tay Zhi Rong, born 13 April 1988) is a

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

an swimmer, who specialized in individual and relay freestyle events. He is also a multiple-time medalist for the individual events, and a two-time defending champion for the relay freestyle events at the

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. Tay was the sole male swimmer for the Singapore national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in

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, and competed for the men's 200 m freestyle. He won the second heat of the competition, and set a national record, with a time of 1:50.41, 0.86 seconds ahead of

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Vladimir Sidorkin Vladimir Sidorkin (born 9 May 1986) is an Estonian former swimmer, who specialized in both long and short course freestyle events. He represented his nation Estonia in middle-distance freestyle swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has curre ...

. Tay, however, failed to advance into the semi-final rounds, as he placed forty-first in the overall rankings. Tay was also a member and varsity player of the Princeton Tigers swimming team at

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Bryan Tay – Princeton Tigers
* * 1988 births Living people Singaporean male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers of Singapore Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games Singaporean expatriates in the United States Southeast Asian Games medalists in swimming Southeast Asian Games gold medalists for Singapore Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore Competitors at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games Competitors at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Singapore 20th-century Singaporean people 21st-century Singaporean people {{Singapore-swimming-bio-stub

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