Taylor Ruck
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| Full name | Taylor Madison Ruck | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Canada
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May 28, 2000 (age 16) Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) (2016) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | backstroke, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Scottsdale Aquatic Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Kevin Zacher | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taylor Ruck (born May 28, 2000) is a Canadian competitive swimmer. She won two Olympic bronze medals as part of Canada's women's 4×100 metre and 4×200 metre freestyle relay teams at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Ruck previously won six medals at the 2015 World Junior Swimming Championships including three gold in the 100 free, 200 free, and 4×100 metre mixed freestyle relay.
Ruck won the gold medal in the 100 meter freestyle at the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore, breaking the Championships record in both the heats and the final. She also won the 200 meter freestyle, again in a championship record. She would add a bronze medal in the 200 backstroke, as well as three relay a medals a gold in the mixed 4 × 100 m free, silver in the 4×200 m free, and a bronze in the women's 4×100 m freestyle event.
Ruck was suffering from bronchitis during the trials for Canada's Olympic team and did not initially qualify, but officials took their illness into account and named her to the team for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
There, as a sixteen year old Olympian, she swam the last leg in the heats and the second last leg of the finals in the women's 4×100 m relay final for Canada. Ruck competed with Penny Oleksiak, Chantal van Landeghem, Sandrine Mainville, and Michelle Williams and swam to a bronze medal, behind Australia and the United States. After the win Ruck said of "I’m definitely not one to cry easily but I was about to...I feel 110 per cent Canadian now!" The medal was the first Canadian women's freestyle relay medal at the Olympics in 40 years. She became the first athlete born in the 2000s to win an Olympic medal along with fellow Canadian swimmer and relay partner Penny Oleksiak.
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