7TH FINA WORLD JUNIOR SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019
- 50-Meter Course
- Duna Arena, Budapest (Hungary)
- Pool swimming: Tuesday, August 20 – Sunday, August 25, 2019
- Heats 9:30am GMT+2 (3:30 am EDT / 12:30 am PDT)/ Semifinals and Finals 5:30pm GMT+2 (11:30am EDT / 8:30am PDT)
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- Entries book
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- Live results
Australian Lani Pallister nearly pulled off a Ledecky-esque sweep of the women’s distance and middle-distance freestyle races at the 2019 FINA World Junior Championships. With her silver-medal performance in the women’s 200 freestyle today, Pallister will leave Budapest with 4 individual medals total, including three golds in the 400, 800, and 1500 meter freestyles, as well as a silver as part of Australia’s 4 x 200 freestyle relay, where she led off in 1:58.61.
Erika Fairweather of New Zealand won the women’s 200 freestyle tonight in 1:57.96, just .13 ahead of Pallister. Canada’s Emma O’Croinin rounded out the podium with a 1:58.64 for bronze.
Pallister’s time in this evening’s finals was markedly faster than her relay lead-off, hitting the wall for silver in 1:58.09.
Pallister’s splits 8/25/2019:
| 1st 50 | 27.99 |
| 2nd 50 | 30.29 |
| 3rd 50 | 30.32 |
| 4th 50 | 29.49 |
| Total Time | 1:58.09 |
17-year-old Pallister has had a record-setting week in Budapest, recording new Championship Records in each of her previous individual events. In the 800, Pallister took nearly 3 seconds off the previous mark, set by Argentina’s Delfina Pignatiello in 2017, winning gold in 8:25.22. Pallister later became the 8th-fastest Australian woman ever in the 400 freestyle, throwing down a new Championships Record time of 4:05.42.
The 1500 was perhaps Pallister’s most impressive race, where her time of 15:58.86 not only skated past Pignatiello’s 2017 record, but also made Pallister one of only 11 women to break the 16-minute barrier in the 1500 in 2019.
With a significant drop in the next year she could factor in the women’s 4×200 freestyle relay for Tokyo
Hope so. She has the potential, depends whether she is a 1500 or 200 swimmer I think.
Not to mention Mack Horton has also had success in the 4×200 relay..
I think it’s in her best interest to put some focus on 20 free as that relay team could
Potentially win a medal at the Olympics if not gold..
I think so too, but the depth of the 200 much harder then the depth of 1500, with no Titmus. Tough decision.
Depth is good .. means we can rest the big 3 for finals
yes indeed ….they will need her