Australia golden lady Meg Harris reels in Gretchen Walsh to grab Pan Pacs crown | Swimming

A stunned Meg Harris has confirmed her standing as the most recent golden lady of Australian swimming with victory on the Pan Pacific championships.

Just weeks after successful six gold medals on the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Harris has collected one other for successful the ladies’s 100m freestyle on the Pan Pacs.

Harris clocked 52.60 seconds to pip esteemed American Gretchen Walsh (52.78) within the remaining in Irvine, California on Thursday night time (Friday AEST).

Harris’ Dolphins teammate Liv Wunsch (52.98) completed third.

The 24-year-old Harris reeled in American star Walsh within the final 50m – however didn’t know she’d triumphed till instructed by Wunsch.

“My coach said to don’t leave anything in the water, so I put my head down and closed my eyes,” Harris stated. “I didn’t even realise I had won until Liv told me.”

Harris’ feat caps a stunningly profitable abroad stint for the 2024 Olympic 50m freestyle silver medallist.

“It has been a long trip” Harris stated. “But I love racing and getting up and doing this.

“And a quick turnaround [between meets] has been a whole learning experience but I have loved every bit of it.”

Australia, regardless of lacking the injured Mollie O’Callaghan, saluted but once more within the girls’s 4x200m freestyle relay.

The largely inexperienced workforce of Inez Miller, Lani Pallister, Hannah Casey and Milla Jansen touched forward of the United States and Canada.

In the boys’s 4x200m freestyle relay, Australia’s workforce of Max Giuliani, Kai Taylor, Charlie Hawke and Sam Short completed second to the US.

Isaac Cooper, who was reprimanded by Dolphins hierarchy for going out ingesting as an alternative of attending the ultimate night time on the pool on the Commonwealth Games, claimed silver within the males’s 50m backstroke.

In the ladies’s 400m particular person medley, Australia’s Jenna Forrester completed second behind Canada’s world record-holder Summer McIntosh.

The Dolphins’ Sam Williamson took bronze within the males’s 100m breaststroke and Iona Anderson positioned third within the girls’s 50m backstroke.