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{{Short description|Australian swimmer (born 1988)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox swimmer
| name           = Meagen Nay
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| full_name      = Meagen Marree Nay
| nicknames      = "Megz"
| national_team  = {{AUS}}
| birth_date     = {{Birth date and age|1988|10|5|df=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Gold Coast, Queensland]], Australia
| death_date     =
| death_place    =
| height         = 1.74 m
| weight         = 62 kg
| strokes        = [[Backstroke]], [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]]
| club           = St Peters Western
| coach          = Michael Bohl
| collegeteam    =
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Women's swimming}}
{{MedalCountry | Australia}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FINA World Aquatics Championships|World Championships (LC)]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships|2009 Rome]] | [[Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Pan Pacific Swimming Championships|Pan Pacific Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships|2010 Irvine]] | [[2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay|4×200 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Swimming at the Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games|2010 Delhi]] | [[Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's 200 metre backstroke|200 m backstroke]]}}
{{MedalGold | 2010 Delhi | [[Swimming at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay|4×200 m freestyle]]}}
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'''Meagen Marree Nay''' (born 5 October 1988) is a competitive [[swimming (sport)|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 [[List of Australian records in swimming|Australian record]] holder in the 200-metre [[backstroke]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://console.clubsonline.com.au/customitem/attachments/NAY_Meagen.pdf |title=Nay's Official Swimming Australia Bio |website=clubsonline.com.au}}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
She is the daughter of [[Robert Nay]], who competed at the [[1972 Summer Olympics]] in [[Munich]], [[Germany]]. 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/26/2636652.htm |title=Swimming star Nay's brother killed |website=abc.net.au |date=26 July 2009}}</ref> Nay was due to swim the 200-metre backstroke and 200-metre freestyle at the [[2009 World Aquatics Championships|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/28/2638242.htm |title=Nay heads home |website=abc.net.au |date=28 July 2009}}</ref>
At the [[2010 Commonwealth Games]] 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.<ref>{{Cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/na/meagen-nay-1.html |title=Meagen Nay |access-date=2017-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418111935/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/na/meagen-nay-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
==External links==
* {{World Aquatics}}
* {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906192713/http://www.swimming.org.au/article.php?group_id=7901 |date=6 September 2015 |title=Meagen Nay at Swimming Australia}}
* {{AOC profile}}
* {{Olympics.com|meagen-nay}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{CGA profile|meagen-nay}}
* {{CGF profile}}
{{Footer Commonwealth Champions 200m Backstroke Women}}
{{Footer Commonwealth Champions 4x200m Freestyle Women}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nay, Meagan}}
[[Category:1988 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from the Gold Coast, Queensland]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Queensland]]
[[Category:Australian female freestyle swimmers]]
[[Category:Australian female backstroke swimmers]]
[[Category:Olympic swimmers for Australia]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:21st-century Australian sportswomen]]
[[Category:Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games]]