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BBC News
17-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Guernsey's Bown wins more Island Games gold medals
Guernsey's Chloe Bown ended her first Island Games with seven swimming gold teenager won the 100m freestyle and helped Guernsey's women win the 4x100m medley relay to take her tally to gold medals. Having won her individual event by 0.31 seconds she helped Tatiana Tostevin, Orla Rabey and Molly Staples win relay gold in Kirkwall in an Island Games record time. It ended an exceptional games which saw Bown win 200m freestyle and 200m and 400m individual medley gold medals as well as three relay titles. She also won two silver and two bronze medals as Guernsey ended the games with 11 swimming experienced team-mate Tatiana Tostevin ended her games on top of the podium as she won the 50m Sarnian medallists in the pool included Oriana Wheeler and Rabey, who won silver and bronze respectively in the 200m butterfly while Delphine Riley won 800m freestyle bronze. Athletics golds for Guernsey Guernsey won two more athletics gold medals on the penultimate day of Dowinton came first in the 100m hurdles as her personal best time of 14.53 was more than half-a-second quicker than Isle of Wight's silver medallist Sophie Victoria Hancock won bronze in a time of 15.56 seconds. For Hancock it was a third medal at Orkney 2025 after winning long jump gold and breaking the Guernsey triple jump record to win bronze on Sunday. "I wasn't really expecting it. I was aiming for it, so I'm really proud of myself for just getting down there and getting my last medal," said Hancock, who also won bronze two years ago."The last couple of medals that I got were a bit of a surprise, so having got bronze last time in hurdles it was what I was aiming for this time."Meanwhile Chris Bain won the men's 5,000m in 15:13.55 - just under two seconds in front of Bermuda's Jake Brislane and Julian Gregersen came third for the Faroe Islands. There was more success for Guernsey's archers as they won silver in the recurve head to head team knockout. Lisa Gray, Monika Komla and Jason Le Page were just edged out by Faroe Islands in the final as they lost Sarnians had beaten Channel Island rivals Jersey 6-2 in the Guernsey's mountain bikers won team cross country bronze. The team of Seth Davey, Mark Ferbrache, Mark Le Page, Peter Sargent and Charlie Tourtel were third behind gold medallists jersey and second-placed Isle of Man. Davey was Guernsey's highest finisher in 11th place as Le Page was 12th and Tourtal came 13th.
ITV News
15-07-2025
- Sport
- ITV News
Channel Islanders swim to success as Bown bags triple gold and Nowacki breaks Island Games' record
Guernsey's Chloe Bown made her Games' debut and won three races, including the 200m freestyle, while Jersey's Filip Nowacki set three records in one day.
BBC News
14-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Swimmer Bown wins three Island Games gold medals
Guernsey's Chloe Bown won three gold medals at she impressed on the first day of swimming at the 2023 Island won gold in the 200m freestyle, 400m individual medley and 4x50m freestyle shattered the Island Games record for the 400m individual medley swimming in a time of 4:43.96 - beating the 14-year-old mark set by Isle of Man's former Great Britain swimmer Charlotte Atkinson in 2011. Teammate Oriana Wheeler won silver as she finished more than six seconds the 200m freestyle Bown's time of 2:00.47 was four-and-a-half seconds ahead of Faroe Islands' silver medallist Alisa Bown was part of the relay team alongside the experienced trio of Molly Staples, Tatiana Tostevin and Orla Rabey that took gold by almost a second from Aland. Rabey - swimming at her final Island Games after a glittering career that has seen her win 22 medals over the previous three Island Games, including eight golds, added another individual medal to her 23-year-old came second in the 100m butterfly as she lost out to Cayman Islands' Sierrah Broadbelt by 0.26 seconds.
