Meg Harris

Meg Harris, OAM (born 7 March 2002) is an Australian swimmer. She is a world record holder in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay and a bronze medal in the 4×200 metre freestyle relay^[1] and also in the 2024 Summer Olympics, having won a gold medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay. Harris also won an individual silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 50 m freestyle. She is also the co-founder of the clothing brand Dally&Co Label.

Meg Harris

OAM

Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	(2002-03-07) 7 March 2002 (age 23) Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Rackley
Coach	Damien Jones
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  Australia Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 2 2 1 World Championships (LC) 4 2 1 World Championships (SC) 2 4 0 Commonwealth Games 1 1 0 World Junior Championships 0 1 2 Commonwealth Youth Games 1 0 0 Total 10 10 4 Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m freestyle 2024 Paris 4×100 m freestyle 2024 Paris 50 m freestyle 2024 Paris 4x100 m medley 2020 Tokyo 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (LC) 2022 Budapest 4×100 m freestyle 2022 Budapest 4×100 m mixed freestyle 2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m freestyle 2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m mixed freestyle 2022 Budapest 4×100 m mixed medley 2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m medley 2022 Budapest 50 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2022 Melbourne 4×100 m freestyle 2022 Melbourne 4×200 m freestyle 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m freestyle 2022 Melbourne 4×100 m medley 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m mixed freestyle 2024 Budapest 4×100 m freestyle Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m mixed freestyle 2022 Birmingham 50 m freestyle World Junior Championships 2019 Budapest 4×100 m freestyle 2019 Budapest 50 m freestyle 2019 Budapest 100 m freestyle Commonwealth Youth Games Nassau 2017 50 m freestyle

Background

Harris attended Mt St Michael's College in Ashgrove, Brisbane.^{[citation needed]}

Career

2020 Olympics

During the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Harris swam the second leg for the gold medal-winning Australian Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay team in the final. The Australian women broke the world record with a time of 3:29.69. Harris's split was 53.09.^[2] She also swam the heats of the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay with a split of 1:57.01. Harris did not swim in the final where the Australians finished third, but received a bronze medal for swimming in the heats of the relay.^[3]

After the Olympics Harris moved from Brisbane, where she had been coached by Dean Boxall, to Adelaide, where she came under the tutelage of noted sprint coach Peter Bishop.

2022

In January 2022, Harris broke her arm and announced the injury on Instagram.^[4] Harris later announced the injury was not training related and she attained the broken arm when she accidentally ran a scooter into a rock.^[5]

In the 2022 Australia Day Honours, Harris was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia.^[6]

2023

At the 2023 World Aquatics Championships, Harris swam the third leg in the Australia women’s 4x100m freestyle relay along with Shayna Jack, Mollie O’Callaghan and Emma McKeon to break the world record in a time of 3:27.96. The previous record also by an Australian team was 3:29.69. Harris also won another gold medal as an heat swimmer in the mixed 4x100m freestyle relay and silver medal as a heat swimmer in the women’s 4x100m medley relay.

In August Harris announced she would move from the South Australia Sports Institute (SASI) to join the Rackley Swim Team in Brisbane under Damien Jones.

World records

Long course metres

No.	Event	Time	Meet	Location	Date	Status	Ref
1	4x100 m freestyle relay [a]	3:29.69	2020 Summer Olympics	Tokyo, Japan	25 July 2021	Former	[2]
2	4x100 m freestyle relay [b]	3:27.96	2023 World Aquatics Championships	Fukuoka, Japan	23 July 2023	Current	[7]

^a split 53.09 (2nd leg); with Bronte Campbell (1st leg), Emma McKeon (3rd leg), Cate Campbell (4th leg)
^b split 52.29 (3rd leg); with Mollie O'Callaghan (1st leg), Shayna Jack (2nd leg), Emma McKeon (4th leg)

Short course metres

No.	Event	Time	Meet	Location	Date	Status	Ref
1	4x100 m freestyle relay[a]	3:25.43	2022 World Championships (25 m)	Melbourne, Australia	13 December 2022	Former	[8]

^a split 52.00 (3rd leg); with Mollie O'Callaghan (1st leg), Madison Wilson (2nd leg), Emma McKeon (4th leg)

Olympic records

Long course metres

No.	Event	Time	Meet	Location	Date	Age	Status	Notes	Ref
1	4x100 m freestyle relay [a]	3:29.69	2020 Summer Olympics	Tokyo, Japan	25 July 2021	19	Former	Former WR, OC, NR	[2]
2	4x100 m freestyle relay (2)[b]	3:28.92	2024 Summer Olympics	Paris, France	27 July 2024	22	Current		[9]

Legend: WR – World record; OC – Oceanian record; NR – Australian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

^a split 53.09 (2nd leg); with Bronte Campbell (1st leg), Emma McKeon (3rd leg), Cate Campbell (4th leg)
^b split 51.94 (4th leg) with Mollie O'Callaghan (1st leg), Shayna Jack (2nd leg), Emma McKeon (3rd leg)

See also

• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
• World record progression 4 × 100 metres freestyle relay