Medi Eira Harris (born 15 September 2002) is a Welsh international

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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.

Biography

Harris won two medals at the

2022 British Swimming Championships The 2022 British Swimming Championships were held at the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre in Sheffield, from 5 April to the 10 April 2022. They also doubled as the trials for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the World Championships. They were ...

: gold in the 100m backstroke , and silver in the 50m backstroke She subsequently represented Great Britain at the

2022 World Aquatics Championships The 2022 World Aquatics Championships, the 19th edition of the FINA World Aquatics Championships, were held in Budapest, Hungary, from 17 June to 3 July 2022. In March 2022, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FINA banned both the Russian an ...

. She was selected for the

2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ...

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. At the

2022 European Aquatics Championships The 2022 European Aquatics Championships took place in Rome, Italy, from 11 to 21 August 2022. The event exactly coincided with, but was not officially part of, the 2022 European Championships. This diverged from the joined format of the 2018 e ...

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

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. At the same championships, she won gold as a member of the British

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team, and bronze as a member of the

Mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay Mixed is the past tense of ''mix''. Mixed may refer to: * Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category), an ethnicity category that has been used by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics since the 1991 Census * ''Mixed'' (album), a c ...

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. After finishing third in the 200 metres freestyle at the

2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships The 2024 British Swimming Championships, Aquatics GB Swimming Championships (sponsored by Speedo) were held at the London Aquatics Centre in London, from 3 April to 8 April 2024. They also doubled as the trials for the Swimming at the 2024 Summe ...

, Harris qualified for the relay team for the

2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade, links=no) and also known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is s ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Medi 2002 births Living people Welsh female swimmers British female swimmers Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Wales Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming 21st-century Welsh women People from Porthmadog Sportspeople from Gwynedd Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming