Medi Harris Swimmer

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.