{"id":391856,"date":"2019-08-24T08:13:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=391856"},"modified":"2019-08-24T22:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T05:43:45","slug":"lani-pallister-takes-distance-free-triple-with-1558-world-junior-championships-record-in-1500m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lani-pallister-takes-distance-free-triple-with-1558-world-junior-championships-record-in-1500m\/","title":{"rendered":"Lani Pallister Takes Distance-Free Triple With 15:58 World Junior Championships Record In 1500m"},"content":{"rendered":"

FINA World Junior Swimming Championships (Lani Pallister)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Budapest 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Day Five Finals<\/em><\/p>\n

Australia’s Lani Pallister\u00a0<\/strong>won her third gold medal of the meet with a new championships record of 15:58.86 in the 1500 after golds in the 400 and 800 to complete the distance hat trick, taking after her mother, 1988 Olympian Janelle Elford<\/strong><\/a>. Pallister even passed her mother on the all-time list<\/a> and put herself in contention to become the first mother-daughter duo to swim at the Olympics in the same events for Australia next year.<\/p>\n

There was no Olympic 1500m free back in the day of Elford, the longest race in the pool about to be added in Tokyo next year to bring the men’s and women’s programs in line for the first time in history.<\/p>\n

On the all-time Australian list, Pallister moved up from 8th on 16:06.84 to fourth and now finds herself third fastest Australia in all three of her winning events, the 400, 800 and 1500m among those still in the swim, the 30-lap picture like this:<\/div>\n