Nowacki wins seventh gold medal at 2025 Island Games
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 bronze.Jersey's 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 week.Meanwhile 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 Kirkwall.It was the second time he had finished behind the Spaniard, who also claimed the 100m title on Monday.And there were three squash doubles medals for Jersey pairs.Matthew Boote and Antony Harkin won men's doubles silver while Beth Garton and Amelie Turpin came second in the women's doubles.Turpin them teamed up with William Turpin to win mixed doubles bronze.
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