Meagen Marree Nay (born 5 October 1988) is a competitive swimmer from Australia. She competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in the 200-metre backstroke and placed seventh in the final. Nay is a former Australian record holder in the 200-metre

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. She is the daughter of

Robert Nay Robert John Nay (15 November 1956 – 7 November 1992) was a competitive swimmer from Australia. Nay competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, but failed to reach the finals. His daughter Meagen Nay competed for Australia at t ...

, who competed at the 1972 Olympics in

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. However, her father did not live to see her swim, having been killed in a car crash in 1992. Her brother, Amos Nay, was killed in July 2009, also in a car crash. Nay was due to swim the 200-metre backstroke and 200-metre freestyle at the 2009 World Championships, but returned home to grieve her brother's death after swimming in the preliminaries of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, which earned a bronze medal in the final. At the

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in New Delhi, Nay won the 200-metre 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. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 200 m backstroke, finishing 5th in final.

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