{"id":545678,"date":"2026-07-27T04:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545678\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T04:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:44:25","slug":"kiwi-erika-fairweather-claims-silver-in-1500m-freestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545678\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwi Erika Fairweather claims silver in 1500m freestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiwi Erika Fairweather<\/a> has claimed her third medal of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, winning silver in the women’s 1500m freestyle on Monday.<\/p>\n

By Dana Johannsen of RNZ<\/a><\/p>\n

Australian Lani Pallister was in a class of her own, leading from the outset to comfortably take out the title, while Aussie Molly Walker rounded out the podium.<\/p>\n

Fairweather took her second silver medal of the Games, after finishing behind Pallister in the 400m freestyle final earlier in the meet. The 22 year-old also bagged bronze<\/a> in the 200m freestyle final on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The women’s 1500m freestyle was contested as a straight final, featuring the eight fastest qualifiers, marking the first time the event has been raced at a Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n

Fellow Kiwi Caitlin Deans came home fifth, while Eve Thomas finished in eighth.<\/p>\n

Fairweather’s silver takes New Zealand’s medal tally at the Glasgow Games to five \u2014 all won in the pool – following Lewis Clareburt’s silver<\/a> in the men’s 400m individual medley on the opening day and Hazel Ouwehand’s hard-fought bronze in the 50m butterfly.<\/p>\n

The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including Winston Peters addresses the Stuart Nash saga, and what Sydney Sweeney\u2019s up to in Queenstown. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi Erika Fairweather has claimed her third medal of the 2026 Commonwealth Games, winning silver in the women’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[166477,111,43,139,69,17933],"class_list":["post-545678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}