Lani Pallister

Did You Know?

• Pallister's mother Janelle Pallister competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
• Her godmother is Olympian Dawn Fraser.
• She changed swimming clubs to Griffith University in 2020, where she is coached by both her mother and Michael Bohl.

Career

At 15, Pallister competed at the 2017 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Indianapolis, placing eighth in the 1500-metre freestyle and tenth in the 800-metre freestyle. In August 2018, at age 16, she set a new world life saving record in the 100-metre rescue medley of 1:12.14 at the National Pool Championships in Adelaide. Later that month at the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Suva, she won gold in the 1500-metre freestyle, 800-metre freestyle, and 400-metre freestyle, plus silver medals in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay, 200-metre freestyle, and 4×100-metre freestyle relay.

Her 1500-metre freestyle time of 16:08.09 set a Championships record. In November 2018 at the World Lifesaving Championships, she helped Australia win the world crown and set youth world life saving records in the 200-metre super lifesaver (2:24.19) and 100-metre rescue medley (1:10.21). In January 2019, she won her second consecutive Pier to Pub title in Lorne with a time of 12:20. In March 2019 at the Surf Life Saving Australia Championships in Burleigh Heads, she won the national title in the 2-kilometre ocean swim.