Medi Harris Swimmer

  • DOB

    None
  • Coach

    Dave Hemmings
  • Club

    British Swimming Performance Centre, Loughborough
  • Main event

    Backstroke
  • Best result

    European Champion
  • Medals (INT/NAT)

    • 3
    • 5
    • 4
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Medi Harris will make her Olympic Games debut in Paris off the back of winning her maiden World Championship medals in February and a consistent two years of international performances since her busy debut summer of 2022.

The backstroker - now training at the Aquatics GB Performance Centre Loughborough after coming through at the Swansea University training base - left the 2024 World Champs in Doha with a silver to her name in the Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay and bronze for leading off the Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay in both heats and final, further outlining her impact in relay swims for GB ahead of the Games.

At the 2023 Worlds in Fukuoka, those same relay swims brought finishes of fourth - in the women's freestyle relay - and fifth in the mixed medley, while she placed seventh in the individual Women's 100m Backstroke.

Medi began her breakthrough summer in 2022 by making individual finals in the 50m and 100m Backstroke at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest - finishing in seventh place in each. Her time at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in  Birmingham saw her pick-up her first senior international medal, as she took bronze for Team Wales in the 100m Backstroke. A silver in the same event at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships followed, with the swimmer also becoming European champion in the 4x100m Freestyle Relay.

After taking gold in the 100m Backstroke at the 2022 British Swimming Championships, she followed up with a silver in the 50m, just one hundredth of a second off the top spot. With a personal best in the 2022 season which would have been enough for a finals spot at the Tokyo Olympics, the then-Adam Baker-coached athlete gained valuable experience from her maiden senior international outing.

Long Course
Event Year Time/Score Record
50m Backstroke 2022 27.56
100m Backstroke 2022 59.24
200m Backstroke 2023 2:10.52
100m Freestyle 2023 55.09
200m Freestyle 2024 1:58.10
World Championships
Event Year Time/Score Result
4x200m Freestyle Relay 2024 - Doha 7:50.90 Silver
Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay 2024 - Doha 3:45.09 Bronze
4x200m Freestyle Relay 2023 - Fukuoka 7:51.13 4th
Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay 2023 - Fukuoka 3:43.20 5th
100m Backstroke 2023 - Fukuoka 59.84 7th
50m Backstroke 2022 - Budapest 27.72 7th
100m Backstroke 2022 - Budapest 1:00.01 7th
4x100m Freestyle Relay 2022 - Budapest 3:36.24 5th
4x200m Freestyle Relay 2022 - Budapest 7:59.87 9th
Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay 2022 - Budapest 3:41.65 4th
European Championships
Event Year Time/Score Result
50m Backstroke 2022 - Rome 27.90 5th
100m Backstroke 2022 - Rome 59.46 Silver
4x100m Freestyle Relay 2022 - Rome 3:36.47 Gold
4x200m Freestyle Relay 2022 - Rome 7:54.73 Silver
4x100m Medley Relay 2022 - Rome 4:00.05 5th
Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay 2022 - Rome 3:44.69 Bronze
Commonwealth Games
Event Year Time/Score Result
50m Backstroke 2022 - Birmingham 27.62 5th
100m Backstroke 2022 - Birmingham 59.62 Bronze
Mixed 4x100m Freestyle Relay 2022 - Birmingham 3:26.58 4th
Aquatics GB Swimming Championships
Event Year Time/Score Result
200m Freestyle 2024 - London 1:58.10 Bronze
100m Backstroke 2024 - London 1:58.10 Bronze
100m Freestyle 2023 - Sheffield 55.09 5th
50m Backstroke 2023 - Sheffield 27.86 Silver
100m Backstroke 2023 - Sheffield 59.82 Gold
200m Backstroke 2023 - Sheffield 1:58.59 4th
50m Backstroke 2022 - Sheffield 27.84 Silver
100m Backstroke 2022 - Sheffield 59.95 Gold
100m Freestyle 2022 - Sheffield 55.27 5th
200m Freestyle 2022 - Sheffield 1:59.44 4th