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SWIM:Pallister out for slice of gruelling Comm Games history

Striving to achieve what no woman has done before, Australian swim star Lani Pallister has warned her best is yet to come.

Freestyle ace Pallister has set her sights on becoming the first woman to claim 1500m gold at the Commonwealth Games, with the gruelling distance event to debut in Glasgow.

Pallister heads to her second Commonwealth Games after claiming the 400m, 800m, and 1500m races at Australia's trials in Sydney to be part of a 42-strong Dolphins squad.

The 24-year-old also secured her spot at the Pan Pacific championships in August and is striving to emulate mum and Olympic swimmer Janelle Pallister.

Janelle Pallister had won 1500m freestyle gold twice at the 1989 and 1991 Pan Pacific championships.

Should she fend off rivals Summer McIntosh and Katie Ledecky at the meet in California, the Pallisters will become the first mother-daughter swimming duo to win gold at the same Pan Pacific championships.

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