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Nowacki wins seventh gold medal at 2025 Island Games
Jersey swimming star Filip Nowacki took his gold medal tally to seven at the 2025 Island 17-year-old Team GB swimmer - who recently won two titles at the European Junior Championships - again proved to be the class athlete in Orkney as he broke two more beat the 100m individual medley record as he took gold from Isle of Man's Harry Robinson as Jersey teammate Isaac Dodds was was also got an individual gold in the 50m butterfly before helping the 4x100m medley relay team set a new Island Games record as Sam Sterry, Isaac Thompson and Dodds helped him claim also added a bronze to his collection in the 4x50m mixed medley relay alongside Dodds, Elizabeth Grant and Megan won two more gold medals in the pool as Thompson beat teammate Oscar Dodds to gold in the men's 200m backstroke while Hansford and Elsa Dodds won silver and bronze in the women's 200m backstroke. Glara Ginnis won the women's 400m freestyle while Sterry won silver in the men's 800m freestyle. Double gold for Jersey's cyclists Jersey's men celebrated team road race gold as Tom Huelin took the individual title. Huelin outsprinted a five-rider lead pack around Orkney as he held off Menorca's silver medallist Roberto Ledesma Estevez and Isle of Man's Tyler Hannay who won remaining three riders were all in the chasing group which finished 16 seconds behind the medallists - Ollie Cadin leading it in sixth place, Jack Rebours one spot further back in seventh and Sam Nisbet in ninth. Huelin's gold was Jersey's first individual cycling title at the 2025 Island Games, having won the mountain bike team criterium gold on Tuesday. Archer Perrett strikes gold again Jersey archer Mollie Perrett won her third gold medal of the games as she took the women's recurve head to head knockout title. Perrett thrashed Guernsey's Monika Komla 6-0 to add to her individual and team knockout recurve titles she won earlier in the Jersey's Hannah Bridle won bronze in the women's compound head to head. Having lost 134-129 to Guernsey's Zoe Gray in the semi-finals Bridle defeated Jersey teammate Angela Perrett 130-121 in the third-place play-off. Jamie Oldham won his second silver medal of the games as he was second in the 200m. The sprinter was 0.19 seconds behind Menorca's Sebastia Pons Triay in was the second time he had finished behind the Spaniard, who also claimed the 100m title on there were three squash doubles medals for Jersey Boote and Antony Harkin won men's doubles silver while Beth Garton and Amelie Turpin came second in the women's them teamed up with William Turpin to win mixed doubles bronze.
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Inderwick helps Guernsey win cycling gold medals
Guernsey cyclist Pippa Inderwick won a sprint finish to take women's road race gold at the 2025 Island also led her island to win team gold as Guernsey added to their women's team trial silver earlier in the edged past Faroe Islands' Susanna Skylv Sorensen on the line to take gold as Gibraltar's Olivia Lett won bronze, just ahead of Guernsey's Hannah Truffitt finished seventh while Andrea Nightingale was 10th as Guernsey riders dominated the event in Orkney.
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Record-breaking swimmers add to Manx medal tally at Island Games
There has been more success for the Isle of Man at the 2025 Island Games, with another new record set in the pool and further medals won in cycling, archery and swimmers secured three of the seven medals up for grabs on Wednesday, the third full day of competition in men's team set a new games record of one minute, 30.93 seconds on their way to victory in the 4x50m freestyle relay, with Joel Watterson securing silver in 200m freestyle, and Alex Turnbull winning bronze the men's 50m also saw four other bronze medals won, taking the Manx contingent's tally to 32 and placing the team fourth in the overall standings. The day's action in the pool at Orkney's Pickaquoy Centre saw the swimmers add to Monday's impressive haul of five the record-breaking swim by the men's team of Zachary Bellhouse, Magnus Kelly, Harry Robinson and Joel Watterson in the freestyle relay marked Robinson's third trip to the top of the podium at the current said while he had previously secured an individual gold, the relay success was "amazing"."We obviously won the gold medal in the medley relay yesterday as well and I did have an individual medal, but it is mainly about the team medals," he said. "It's just amazing to be stood up there with your mates, having just listened to the Manx national anthem and having a good time."After soaking up the atmosphere within the venue, Robinson said it felt "surreal" to be part of it."This is my second international experience and there's always a really good turnout from the Manx fans."And it's just amazing, the noise, the atmosphere was just perfect." On the track outside at the same venue, there was success for Aimee Christian in the 400m a repeat of her performance from the previous games in 2023, she secured bronze in the contest, finishing behind the competitors from the Faroe Islands and Guernsey with a time of 1: told Manx Radio Sport she had put in a "stronger" performance this time round despite the blustery said: "I'm really happy with it, just the wind took it out of us, but I think we all felt the same and it was a good race between the three of us at the end."She said her training and preparations ahead of the Orkney event had seen things "come together" for her, with her times coming down by seven seconds."Everything just massively helps when it all comes together and I think over the past two years it's really clicked," she success was followed by another bronze on the athletics track for the Isle of Perry put in a time of 3:57.6 in the men's 1,500m to finish third behind Jersey and Guernsey, with Manx team-mate Ryan Corrin in 12th place. There was also more success for the island's cyclists, who secured the first Manx medal of the day by taking bronze in the men's team Collins, Mark Horsthuis, Eric Kelly and Ross Thornley took third behind the Channel Islands to Manx Radio Sport afterwards, Kelly said it was "really tough going"."There wasn't much rest on that course, and in the heat as well it was really tough," he said."There were some really fast riders up the front so it was just try and manage your race and not blow up too early."As a team we rode pretty well, so I'm happy with the performance." And Ethan Moore and Aalin George took mixed bronze in the archery compound events, slotting in behind the Faroe Islands and Jersey in the final 2025 Orkney Island Games continue until Friday, with more action involving Manx athletes in archery, athletics, badminton, cycling and golf due to take place on Wednesday. Read more stories from the Isle of Man on the BBC, watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer and follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and X.
