Editing Rick Say

{{Short description|Canadian swimmer (born 1979)}}
{{Infobox swimmer
| name           = Richard Say
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| fullname       = Richard Say
| nicknames      = "Ricky cat”
| national_team  = {{CAN}}
| strokes        = [[Freestyle swimming|Freestyle]]
| club           = Pacific Coast Swimming
| collegeteam    = [[Victoria Vikes|University of Victoria]]
| birth_date     = {{Birth date and age|1979|5|18|mf=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Salmon Arm]], [[British Columbia]]
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| height         = {{convert|1.93|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight         = {{convert|83|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
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{{MedalSport | Men's swimming}}
{{MedalCountry | Canada}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FINA World Aquatics Championships|World Championships (LC)]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships|2005 Montreal]] | [[Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalSilver | 2005 Montreal | [[Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay|4×200 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships|2007 Melbourne]] | [[Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay|4×200 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)|World Championships (SC)]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[2004 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)|2004 Indianapolis]] | 200 m freestyle}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1999 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)|1999 Hong Kong]] | 4×200 m freestyle}}
{{MedalBronze | 2004 Indianapolis | 100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalBronze | 2004 Indianapolis | 4×100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Pan Pacific Swimming Championships|Pan Pacific Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships|2006 Victoria]] | [[2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships|1999 Sydney]] | [[1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay|4×200 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships|2002 Yokohama]] | [[2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalBronze | 2002 Yokohama | [[2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay|4×200 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Swimming at the Commonwealth Games|Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games|2002 Manchester]] | [[Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay|4×200 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalBronze | 2002 Manchester | [[Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metre freestyle|200 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalBronze | 2002 Manchester | [[Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Swimming at the Pan American Games|Pan American Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze | [[Swimming at the 1999 Pan American Games|1999 Winnipeg]] | 400 m freestyle}} 
{{MedalBronze | 1999 Winnipeg | 4×200 m freestyle}}
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'''Richard Say''' (born May 18, 1979) is a three-time Olympic and National record-holding [[swimming (sport)|swimmer]] from Canada. Say swam as a child for the Salmon Arm Sockeye Swim Club with his two brothers and two sisters.  At the age of 18, he began attending the [[University of Victoria]] and started to swim seriously.

Say became a mainstay of the National Swim Team, starting in 1998. His career to date includes 20 national titles and [[List of Canadian records in swimming|Canadian records]] in five individual events – 100 free, 200 free, 400 free (scm), 200 free and 400 free (lcm) – not to mention the vast number of national relay records he has been involved in. He has competed for Canada at three Olympic Games ([[Canada at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000]], [[Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004]] and [[Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008]]), reaching the finals of the 200 freestyle in 2000 and 2004. He has been to four World Championships ([[Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships|2001]], [[Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships|2003]], [[Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships|2005]] and [[Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships|2007]]) where he was an integral part of Canada's relays which swam in the finals.

At the 2004 World Short Course Championships, Say won three medals – a silver in the 200 free, and bronze in both the 100-metre freestyle and 4x100-metre freestyle relay, both in Canadian record time. At the Commonwealth Games (1998, 2002) he earned one silver medal and two bronze medals. He has been to two Pan Pacific Championships (1999, 2002), winning 3 bronze medals, all in relays and placing a career high 4th for the 200-metre freestyle. At the [[1999 Pan American Games]], he was a dual bronze medalist in the 400-metre freestyle and 4x200-metre free relay.

At the 2004 Olympics, Say created a minor controversy after the [[Swimming at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay|4×200-metre freestyle relay]] immediately in the post-race interview which was aired live on national television, when he said that he was "pissed off at not being able to make up for my teammates' mistakes". The other three team members - Brent Hayden, Brian Johns, and Andrew Hurd - expressed disappointment not in the effort, which broke the Canadian record by over 3.5 seconds, but only in the 5th-place finish which was out of the medals.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/2.720/crawling-to-keep-up-1.719796 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022035047/http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/swimming/story/2008/08/05/f-olympics-swimming-feature.html |archive-date=October 22, 2009 |title=CBC Olympics &#124; Crawling to keep up }}</ref>

Say's 4x200-metre freestyle relay, however, bounced back to win two silver medals at the [[Swimming at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships|2005 World Championships]] in Montreal in 2005.

Since 2004, Say has been less successful, losing his national 200-metre freestyle title to [[Brent Hayden]], from [[Vancouver]], British Columbia. At the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]] in Melbourne, Australia, Say swam a world-class time of 1:48, but finished out of the medals in fourth place.

At the [[2008 Summer Olympics]], he was a member of the Canadian teams that finished sixth in the 4x100-metre freestyle relay and fifth in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay.

==See also==
* [[List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)]]

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[[Category:1979 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Canadian male freestyle swimmers]]
[[Category:Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)]]
[[Category:Olympic swimmers for Canada]]
[[Category:People from Salmon Arm]]
[[Category:Swimmers from British Columbia]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1999 Pan American Games]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada]]
[[Category:Pan American Games medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games]]
[[Category:Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games]]