2019 AUSTRALIAN WORLD SWIMMING TRIALS
- Sunday, June 9th – Friday, June 14th
- Brisbane Aquatic Centre
- LCM
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- Day 2 Prelims Recap/Day 2 Finals Recap
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WOMEN’S 1500 FREE – FINAL
- GOLD – Maddie Gough 15:56.39 *Worlds QT
- SILVER – Kiah Melverton 15:56.46 *Worlds QT
- BRONZE – Lani Pallister, 16:06.84 *Worlds QT
While competing on night 2 of the 2019 Aussie World Swimming Trials, 17-year-old Lani Pallister logged a new personal best in the women’s 1500m freestyle for bronze, establishing a new Australian Age Record in the process.
Entering this meet, Pallister’s personal best in this 1500m event rested at the 16:08.09 she established at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships last year for gold. That outing represented 1 of 3 Junior Pan Pacs titles the Cotton Tree athlete would rack up before all was said and done.
Now 17 years of age, Pallister’s sub-16:07 outing now tops the all-time list for her age in this event, beating out a decades old mark. The previous Age Record for 17-year-olds rested at the 16:10.11 clocked by Janelle Elford in Perth way back in 1987, making Pallister the fastest of her age in over 30 years.
Hunter is actually Pallister’s mom, making this record an extra special one to now hold.
2018-2019 LCM WOMEN 1500 FREE
QUADARELLA
15.40.89
2 | Katie Ledecky | USA | 15.45.59 | 01/12 |
3 | Jianjiahe WANG | CHN | 15.46.69 | 03/06 |
4 | Sarah KOHLER | GER | 15.48.83 | 08/23 |
5 | Delfina PIGNATIELLO | ARG | 15.51.68 | 06/15 |
To boot, young Pallister now enters the season’s world rankings at #6 with her record-breaking performance tonight. Pallister already finished with the bronze in the 400m free here, but still has the 800m free yet to go.
At the Australian Age Championships in April, Pallister went 4-for-4 in national titles, claiming golds across the 200m/400m/800m and 1500m free events. Her time there in Adelaide in the 1500m was 16:16.91.
Super cool!
Kinda cool breaking your moms record!
Janelle is her mom .
Agh bugger! Beat me to it!
Was waiting for someone to say this 🙂
Hunter was the club that Janelle Elford swam for .
In the meantime , could someone from Swimmng Australia please update the boys and girls top 10 rankings and the Australian Age records . They haven’t been updated for 13 months and 9months respectively . It’s just ridiculous now
You do realise that the old record was held by her mother (Janelle Pallister/Elford) who is also her coach, don’t you ?