Taylor McKeown (born 17 March 1995) is a former Australian competitive swimmer. She won a gold medal in the 200 metre breaststroke at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and a silver medal at the 4 × 100 m medley relay during the 2016 Summer Olympics. McKeown also represented Australia in both the 100m breaststroke, and 200m breaststroke, qualifying fastest for the final and finishing in 5th in the 2016 Summer Olympics. She is a University of Sunshine Coast student. In 2010, Taylor won her first national titles in the 100m and 200m breaststroke at the age of 15. Since then Taylor has dominated breaststroke and individual medley events throughout the age group swimming years. She won multiple medals and representing Australia on many junior teams events. Taylor injured her knee prior to the 2018

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which required surgery. Taylor struggled throughout 2018 and left her coach of 13 years. She settled on the Gold Coast in early 2019 training with her new coach

Michael Bohl Michael Bohl is an Australian swimming coach, working for the Australian Swim Team and Griffith University. Bohl is the coach of swimmer Emma McKeon, who represented Australia in the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics, and former ...

, Taylor is the older sister of Olympic champion swimmer,

Kaylee McKeown Kaylee Rochelle McKeown (born 12 July 2001) is an Australian swimmer and triple Olympic gold medalist. She is a world record holder in the long course 100 metre backstroke and the short course 200 metre backstroke.Hanson, Ian (27 November 20 ...

. After the

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in Birmingham, Taylor announced her retirement from competitive swimming.

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