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Content with swimming career, Rebecca Smith retires to pursue nursing

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Rebecca Smith is retiring after eight years on the national swimming team.

The Red Deer , Alta ., native has won 17 medals for Canada at world championships.

Smith is tied with Penny Oleksiak for the most relay medals of all-time for Canada .

She was a member of the 4100 -m freestyle relay team that took silver at the 2020 Olympics .

Rebecca Smith broke the Canadian record to take silver in the 200 -m freestyle at the world short-course championships in Abu Dhabi in 2021 .

She was part of four relay medals at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha , Qatar .

Smith began a new full-time role on the neonatal intensive care unit at Calgary’s Rockyview General Hospital Monday .