Taylor Ruck

Quick Facts

Full Name	Taylor Ruck
Occupation	Swimmer
Date Of Birth	May 28, 2000(2000-05-28)
Age	24
Birthplace	Kelowna
Country	Canada
Birth City	British Columbia
Horoscope	Taurus

Taylor Ruck Biography

Taylor Ruck is one of the most popular and richest Swimmer who was born on May 28, 2000 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Taylor Madison Ruck (born May 28th in 2000) is an Canadian professional swimmer from Canada. She was awarded two Olympic bronze medals while part of Canada’s women’s 4×100 metres and 4×200 freestyle relay teams in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro. Ruck was awarded eight medals during the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. The eight medals she won of one gold five silver and two bronze medals tied the record of three athletes for the highest number of medals ever at a single Commonwealth Games, as well as being the highest-scored Canadian female athlete to compete in one Commonwealth Games. Ruck is the all-time top athlete to win a medal in the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships with nine golds three silver and two bronze medals over the time during the World Junior Swimming Championships and the junior championships of 2017.

Ruck had bronchitis in the testing for Canada’s Olympic team. She was unable to initially qualify, however officials took her condition into consideration and added Ruck to the team for at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Ruck’s family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S., before she was one year old. She does not hold American citizenship and continues to spend time in Canada while visiting family in Kelowna, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. She attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale. She attends Stanford University, starting school there in the fall of 2018.

Following the Commonwealth Games, Ruck carried her success that season into the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Tokyo. Ruck began the meet with a bronze medal in the women’s 100 m freestyle, while adding bronzes in the 4×100 and 4×200 m freestyle relays. She then beat American star and fellow Stanford swimmer Katie Ledecky in the 200 m freestyle, leading from start to finish. CBC commentator Byron MacDonald said of Ruck’s race and form that “anytime you beat the best female swimmer in the world… it’s a huge step forward.” Ruck finished the competition in the 200 m backstroke where she out- touched Regan Smith at the wall for silver in the event. This gave her five medals, the most by any Canadian at a single Pan Pacific championships. After a fantastic meet and a tremendous season put the world on notice, Ruck said of swimming in Tokyo, the site of the 2020 Olympics, that “this sets my expectations higher. I just love Japan and hopefully I’ll be able to come back here in two years.”

To conclude the 2016 season, Ruck and her teammates took home a gold medal at the FINA short-course world championships in swimming 4 200 freestyle relay. Ruck was who was swimming in the second part of the race recorded the fastest split time in the finals with the time of 1:51.69. She also took home the bronze award in the 200-meter individual freestyle. In 2017, Ruck relocated back to Canada to take part in training with the High Performance Centre – Ontario which was supervised by Ben Titley. She began her training there alongside teammates Oleksiak, Toro, Van Landegham, Rebecca Smith, Sandrine Mainville, Kayla Sanchez as well as Richard Funk.

Taylor Ruck Net Worth

Taylor Ruck is one of the richest Swimmer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Taylor Ruck 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ruck was awarded her gold in the 100-meter freestyle during the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore smashing the Championships record in both final and heats. She also took home the 200-meter freestyle also in a record for championships. She was also awarded an Olympic bronze medal for the 200-backstroke along with three relay medals: gold medal in the mixed 4×100 free and silver at the end of her 4×200 free, and a bronze medal in the women’s 4x100m freestyle.

After the success of her Olympic victory in 2016 Ruck took part during the Canadian trials for the 2017. World Aquatics Championships. In the end, she failed to finish higher than fourth in any of the events so she did not be a part of to be part of the Canadian team in any of the events . She also did not make it to the world championships.

Ruck was part of the gold medal 4 × 200 m freestyle 2017 World Junior Swimming Championships team in Indianapolis. In the process the team broke the junior world record and championship record. Ruck would add gold medals and world junior records in both the 4×100 m relay and the 4×100 m medley. She set the world junior record in the girl’s 100 m backstroke semis, but would lose the record and the gold medal to Regan Smith while winning the silver medal in the event. While swimming in the 200 m freestyle event, she lowered the championship record twice when she set a 1:57.08. Ruck also set a 100 m championship record while leading off the 4×100 m relay when she swam to a 53.63.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Taylor Ruck height 5 ft 11 in Taylor weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Taylor Ruck Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Taylor Ranked on the list of most popular Swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Taylor Ruck celebrates birthday on May 28 of every year.

Is Taylor ruck in Olympics?

Outside of the NCAA, Ruck has represented Canada at both the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. In 2016, she helped Canada to Bronze medals in the women’s 400 free relay and 800 free relay.

How old is Taylor Ruck?

22 years (May 28, 2000)

Where does Taylor ruck train?

Taylor swims for the Scottsdale Aquatic Club and trains under head coach Kevin Zacher. Just like her club and high school teammate Ryan Hoffer (boys swimmer of the year), Taylor was named Girls swimmer of the year by Arizona Central News.

Where was Taylor Ruck born?

Kelowna, Canada

How tall is Taylor Ruck?

5′ 11″