Medi Harris

Medi Harris
Personal information
Full name	Medi Eira Harris
Nationality	British ; Welsh
Born	15 September 2002 (age 21) ; Porthmadog , Gwynedd, Wales
Sport
Country	Great Britain/Wales
Sport	Swimming
Event	Backstroke
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Great Britain
World Championships (LC)
European Championships (LC)
Representing Wales
Commonwealth Games

Medi Eira Harris (born 15 September 2002) is a Welsh international swimmer competing for Great Britain and Wales in backstroke and freestyle. She was part of the gold medal-winning women's 4x100 freestyle relay team at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships. Representing Wales at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she won a bronze medal in the women's 100 metre backstroke . ^[1]^[2]

Biography [ edit ]

Harris won two medals at the 2022 British Swimming Championships : gold in the 100m backstroke , and silver in the 50m backstroke ^[3] She subsequently represented Great Britain at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships . ^[4]

She was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where she competed in two events: the women's 50m backstroke and the women's 100m backstroke , winning a bronze medal in the latter. ^[1]^[3]

At the 2022 European Aquatics Championships in Rome, she won a silver medal in the final of the Women's 100 metre backstroke and another as a member of the British team in the Women's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay . ^[5] At the same championships, she won gold as a member of the British Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay team, and bronze as a member of the Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay team.

In 2023, she won the gold medal at the 2023 British Swimming Championships in the 100 metres backstroke . It was the second time that she had won the 100 metres title. ^[6] After finishing third in the 200 metres freestyle at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships , Harris qualified for the relay team for the 2024 Summer Olympics . ^[7]

^ ^a ^b "Official Commonwealth Games profile" . Birmingham Organising Committee Commonwealth Games Ltd . Retrieved 2 August 2022 .
^ "Medi Harris" . Eurosport . Retrieved 2 August 2022 .
^ ^a ^b "Team Wales profile" . Team Wales . Retrieved 2 August 2022 .
^ "british Swimming profile" . British Swimming . Retrieved 2 August 2022 .
^ "Great Britain win first gold..." Eurosport . Retrieved 22 August 2022 .
^ "British Swimming Championships 2023" . British Swimming . Retrieved 20 April 2023 .
^ "Speedo Aquatics GB Swimming Championships 2024" . Swimming.org . Retrieved 9 April 2024 .