Pallister & Forrester Lead Aussie Gold Rush On Day 1 In Glasgow
Aussie gold rush on a day when Chad Le Clos broke his tie with with shooters Mike Gault, of England, and Philip Adams of Australia, to set a new standard of 19 medals by a single athlete.
Lani Pallister, who last year in Singapore consigned years of struggle and setbacks to history, claimed the first gold for Australia anyone else in the pool at a 3:59.66 the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The silver went to New Zealand's Erika Fairweather, the bronze to the champion's teammate Jenna Forrester, who then bounced back and claimed her own gold in the 200m backstroke in a tight battle for top honours with Scotland's Katie Shanahan and another Australian, Hannah Frederick's.
The closing 4x100m freestyle relays brought the Australian Olympic group's tally of triumphs to four on the first of six days of racing here at Tollcross International Pool.
Pallister's dominant win in the 400m freestyle was tangible from the start: when coach play the video back to their charges, they'll doubtless find the dive instructive. It's certainly and art Pallister appears to have mastered in her pursuit of Katie Ledecky's pace, before and since her silver medal an arm swing behind the American legend in the fastest women's 800m free race in history:
There was nothing of that kind of magnitude today, Pallister giving the impression that her lungs were hardly labouring as she soaked up the result on the scoreboard:
