Bryan Tay (born Tay Zhi Rong, born 13 April 1988) is a Singaporean 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 Southeast Asian Games. Tay was the sole male swimmer for the Singapore national team at the

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in Beijing, 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 Estonia's

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. 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 Princeton University.

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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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