800 m freestyle, women, 25 m pool

What to remember

Lani Pallister has set world records in two sports. In swimming, in a short course pool, she covered the 800 m freestyle in 7 min 54.00 s in Toronto on October 25, 2025, at a World Cup meet.

Born in Sydney, the Australian is a freestyle specialist. Her other field is life saving, where she set youth world records in the 100 m rescue medley and the 200 m super lifesaver. At the 2022 World Short Course Championships she won gold in all four events she entered, three individual races and one relay. At that edition she also became the first female world short course champion in the 1500 m freestyle, an event held for women there for the first time.

The 800 m freestyle is an old race for women and a recent one for men. The women's event has been Olympic since 1968 and on the World Championships schedule since 1973. The men only got it at the World Championships in 2001 and at the Olympics in 2020. In the 25 m pool, the records belong to Pallister and to Ireland's Daniel Wiffen.