Record-breaking Nowacki wins first Island Games medal
Silver medal for Jersey's cyclists
Meanwhile Jersey's first medal of the day came from their cyclists in the men's team time trial.The squad of Ollie Cadin, Tom Huelin, Samuel Nisbet and Jack Rebours were second behind the Isle of Man with Gibraltar getting bronze. Huelin was Jersey's best rider as he finished fourth in the individual event, 45 seconds off Guernsey's bronze medallist Philip Touzeau. Rebours was one place and seven seconds further back while Nisbet was eighth and Cadin 13th.
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