Emma Harvey rounded off her time in Chile with another display of excellence by recording her fourth personal best of the Games in the 50 metres freestyle B final.

Harvey, who before yesterday had never gone faster than 26 seconds in the event, finished third in the B final with a time of 25.81sec, 0.15sec faster than her effort in the morning heats.

Those two personal bests have been added to two national records in the 100 metres backstroke, and when asked to sum up her experiences in Santiago, Harvey had just one word.

“Fun,” she said. “I’ve just had so much fun and these Games have been confidence building.

“I feel like I can leave these games with my head held high. Obviously being in an Olympic year there is a lot of pressure but I’m just really trying to enjoy each step of the way.

“I’ve definitely had a tendency in the past to get obsessed with a goal and I want to put my heart and soul into i,t but I’m just trying to appreciate every opportunity I’m given. The one word I chose is fun because I just feel so happy and I get up on the blocks and I trust my training.”

It was Harvey who first mentioned the Olympics and it would take a brave soul to bet against her making the necessary leap with her progress coming just at the right time to be knocking on Paris’s door.

“The way I see my trajectory and improvement now is great after four years of really struggling,” Harvey said.

“I felt like I was going nowhere but then a year ago really at the Commonwealth Games everything clicked and I’ve just had more and more confidence.

“I’m hoping I can keep this going as I want to be competing with girls in A finals and I want to be competing for medals. That’s definitely the end goal and right now I definitely feel that’s possible in the future.”

While Harvey is all smiles after finishing her meet with another personal milestone, Madelyn Moore cut a dejected figure after the 50 free heats.

She originally missed out on the B final by one place when finishing 17th of the 34 competitors in the heats but was promoted to compete alongside Harvey after being drafted in as first alternate and swam well to finish sixth.

Moore was philosophical in the assessment of her performances after her morning effort.

“Ovbiously it doesn’t feel great,” she said.

“But I’m at the age where I just have to keep looking forward and not looking back. I’ve just got to keep grinding.

Moore has not been way off the pace here but things have not clicked in the way she would have hoped, and she puts that down to a new training regime.

“I’ve just switched to a new programme,” she said. “That includes the mental side, the physical side. I’m not too stressed about it so I’m just going to keep going.

“You can always take things away from these race but there are just a lot of mental things I need to work on.

“There is going to be a lot of communicating with my coaches, what they think, what I think and we’ll just go from there.”

Moore was not the only Bermudian celebrating promotion to a B final with Sam Williamson also getting another swim in the 400 metres individual medley after originally missing out by a place.

The teenager finished seventh in his heat but improved his time by three seconds when finishing sixth in the B Final.

“I only found out I was in on the train on the way back,” Williamson said.

“Shona [Palmer, Bermuda coach] got a call on the way back to say I was in. The morning swim wasn’t as good as I’d like it to be but I know exactly what I need to work on.

“I felt good on the butterfly and backstroke but with it being early in the season and my breaststroke is just not where I need it to be at the moment, it was hard. I still held on quite well and finished quite strong.

Williamson is the only swimmer in action on the final day of the meet, taking part in the 200 individual medley and despite not achieving any personal bests as yet, he revealed the team spirit within the Bermuda camp remains positive largely thanks to Harvey’s achievements.

“Spirits are really high and all of us are back here for the finals to support her, which is really nice,” Williamson said.

“Even the people struggling to hit the times they wanted are remaining positive and it’s good to see.”