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Australian World Champion Freestylers Emma McKeon and Lani Pallister Born Into Golden Gene Pools<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Little did they know it at the time but former Australian surf lifesaving rivals\u00a0Ron McKeon<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Rick Pallister<\/strong> would father two of Australia\u2019s greatest swimmers \u2013\u00a0Emma McKeon<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Lani Pallister<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Between Australia\u2019s most successful Olympic and Commonwealth Games, veteran Emma and rising star Lani, were two of the stars of the show – the girls won 11 medals \u2013 eight gold and three silver – Lani the 400, 800 and 1500m freestyle<\/a> and the first woman to take out three freestyle titles\u2013 with Emma the 50 and 100m freestyles and 4x100m freestyle relay and 4x50m medley relay and Lani in the 4x200m.<\/p>\n

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SWIMMING ROYALTY: David, Emma and Ron McKeon who along with Ron’s wife Susie were awarded the Services to Swimming In Australia on behalf of “The McKeon Family” by Swim Coaches and Teachers Australia. Photo Courtesy: Wade Brennan<\/p><\/div>\n

Emma continuing to show why many believe she is now our greatest swimmer ever – after anther major medal haul which included two milestone relay splits.<\/p>\n

With their proud parents \u2013 Ron and Susie McKeon (nee Woodhouse) and Rick and Janelle Pallister (nee Elford) cheering from the grandstands in a spectacular week of racing at the Melbourne Sports And Aquatic Centre.<\/p>\n

Emma and Lani are certainly carrying on the family names on a golden pathway that will hopefully see them become Olympic team mates in Paris in 2024 \u2013 McKeon for her third Olympic campaign and Pallister, after the heartbreaking miss for Tokyo last year making her Games debut and join 1988 Seoul Olympian mother Janelle in the Olympic arena.<\/p>\n

But there were none better than their celebrated waterman fathers.<\/p>\n

There were times when Ron McKeon<\/strong> and Rick Pallister<\/strong> were arch rivals in a most competitive surf lifesaving environment, an institution on the Australian sporting landscape \u2013 sharing the podiums at Sydney Branch, NSW State and Australian Championships.<\/p>\n

In fact Ron and Susie were both members of the 1982 Australian Commonwealth Games team, surf-swim star Ron in the 1980 and \u201984 Olympic teams with Janelle in the 1988 Olympic team and the 1990 Commonwealth Games team while Rick Pallister was regarded as one of Australia’s best surf belt race and surf race champions before embarking on a successful ironman and triathlon career, mixing it with the world’s best.<\/p>\n

And of course the couples will all agree the success of their daughters in the water is all in their genes.<\/p>\n

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POOL PATRONS: Emma McKeon, Cody Simpson, Lani Pallister and Josh Edwards Smith at the Gina Rinehart Patrons Dinner hosted by Swimming Queensland. Photo Courtesy: Wade Brennan Photography.<\/p><\/div>\n

The iconic surf racing in Australia had an Olympic flavour all of its own that developed a competitive environment and Ron McKeon and Rick Pallister were in the thick of the action week-in week-out – head-to-head rivals.<\/p>\n

Ron would become a household name at his beloved South Maroubra Surf Club, following in his family footsteps as would Pallister who was a major player with the success of Elouera Surf Club and Cronulla Triathlon Club.<\/p>\n

Ron and Rick were dominant forces in the 1970s, 80s and 90s – golden eras in swimming, surf lifesaving and triathlon when Olympians dominated surf races.<\/p>\n

McKeon and training partners \u2013 fellow Olympians Graeme Brewer<\/strong> and Max Metzker<\/strong> (under legendary coach John “JR” Rodgers<\/strong>) were all competitive in the rough and tumble surf and belt racing \u2013 alongside the likes of Steve Holland, Mark Tonelli, Robbie Nay<\/strong> and Paul Moorfoot.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Clifton Beach in Tasmania in 1983 it was Pallister who beat Olympians Brewer and Moorfoot in one semi-final of the power-based Australian open surf belt race while McKeon won the other semi-final \u2013 with Commonwealth Games gold medallist and Moscow and LA Olympian Brewer surging ahead to out-touch Pallister in a hotly contested final ahead of Moorfoot and McKeon \u2013 Pallister the only non-Olympian in the mix.<\/p>\n

Rick Pallister continued to match it with the Olympians in the surf \u2013 finishing second to McKeon in the 1976 Australian Cadet Surf race championship before taking bronze to McKeon in the Australian Junior belt race and silver in the Australian Junior Surf race title in 1979 at Trigg Island in a stroke-for-stroke battle in millpond conditions.<\/p>\n

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ACTION PACKED: Rick Pallister showing the form that made him one of Surf Lifesaving and Triathlon’s ‘s best. Photo Courtesy: John Veage.<\/p><\/div>\n

Pallister would also form part of Elouera\u2019s back-to-back Open Surf Teams victories at the Australian Championships alongside ironman great Robert Chapman, Stuart Taylor<\/strong> and Richard Ford<\/strong> \u2013 brother of Olympic gold medallist Michelle.<\/p>\n

Rick was also a trailblazer in the world of triathlon, aquathon and biathlon with the likes of triathlon royalty Greg Welch, Craig Alexander, Chris McCormack, Michael Maroney<\/strong>, the late Mark Pringle<\/strong> and Michellie Jones<\/strong> at Cronulla Triathlon who also had a stint in the Uncle Tobys Ironman Series.<\/p>\n

Taking bronze to McKeon and Pallister in that 1979 surf race battle royal was celebrated Channel 7<\/em> Olympic, swimming and surf lifesaving commentator Jon Harker<\/strong> who remembers just how competitive they were.<\/p>\n

\u201cRonny was an out and out champion in the pool and the surf \u2013 it was in his blood and Rick was one of the best surf race and belt swimmers I\u2019ve ever seen or raced,\u201d said Harker. \u201cWhen we reached the turning buoys in surf races, there was no one better than Rick Pallister, who would turn on the after-burners..it was like he pushed the go button.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing to the buoys in that race in Perth, I was thinking hang on to their feet and maybe get a small wave I\u2019d be chance but Ronny and Rick just took off \u2013 there was no catching them.<\/p>\n

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GAMES GOLD; Australia’s 4x200m freestylers (L-R) Max Metzker, Ron McKeon and Mark Morgan celebrate gold at the 1978 Edmonton Commonwealth Games, with Graeme Brewer in the water.\u00a0 Photo Courtesy: Russell McPhedran (Hanson Media Collection).<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIt is so good to have followed Emma and Lani too \u2013 there is so much of their fathers and their mothers Susie Woodhouse<\/strong> (Emma\u2019s mum) and Janelle Elford<\/strong> (Lani\u2019s mum) in these two girls.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how proud they are and how proud all of Australia is with their amazing achievements.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo see both Emma and Lani on the Australian Swim Teams together and swimming so well in Melbourne at the World Short Course Championships has been very exciting.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwimming and surf has seen some great families and to see the grandparents and Lani\u2019s godmother, the legendary Dawn Fraser<\/strong> playing such active roles was very special.<\/p>\n

“Emma and Lani are certainly the best of their outstanding parents, both in and out of the water.”<\/p>\n

Girls born into a special gene pool..and it may well be in Paris in 2024 when we see another major chapter written in these family albums.<\/p>\n

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LEADER OF THE PACK: Rick Pallister leads a huge field at The Cronulla Aquathon. Photo Courtesy: John Veage.<\/p><\/div>\n

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SHOULDER TO SHOULDER; Rick Pallister and Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon legend Greg Welch in a head to head battle royal. Photo Courtesy: John Veage.<\/p><\/div>\n

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MASTER CLASS: (L-R) Australian Masters surf teams champions for Alexander Headlands, Rick Pallister, Russell Cooper and ironman legend and Olympic kayaker Grant Kenny. Photo Courtesy: Harv Pix.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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