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Meagen Nay

Personal information
Full name	Meagan Nay
Nickname(s)	Megs
Nationality	Australia
Stroke(s)	Backstroke, Freestyle
Club	St Peter's Western, QLD
Date of birth	5 October 1988 (1988-10-05) (age 21)
Place of birth	Gold Coast, QLD
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for  Australia World Championships (LC) Bronze 2009 Rome 4x100m Freestyle

Meagen Nay (born 5 October 1988) is an Olympic swimmer from Australia. She competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in the 200m backstroke and placed seventh in the final. Nay is the Australian record holder in the 200m backstroke.^[1]

She is the daughter of Robert Nay, who competed at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. However, her father did not live to see her swim, having been killed in a car accident in 1992. Her brother, Amos Nay, was killed in July 2009, also in a car accident.^[2] Nay was due to swim the 200m backstroke and 200m freestyle at the 2009 World Championships, but returned home to grieve her brother's death after swimming in the preliminaries of the 4x100m freestyle relay, which earned a bronze medal in the final.^[3]

Nay trains alongside Stephanie Rice at the St Peter's Western Swimming Club under Michael Bohl.

References

External links

• 2008 Australian Swim Team Bio