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5 days ago
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Jersey's men win Island Games mountain bike gold
Jersey's cyclists have added another gold medal to their tally at the 2025 Island Games after winning team mountain bike cross country gold. The squad of Liam Cadoret, Jay Cracknell, James Dilks, Jacob Mauger and Ben Richards all finished inside the top eight as Jersey's riders dominated the race ahead of Isle of Man and Guernsey. Mauger won individual silver as he finished almost two minutes behind Shetland's gold medallist Grant Ferguson. Dilks took bronze 1:14 behind Mauger while Cracknell was almost two minutes further back in fourth place. Richards finished seventh and Cadoret eighth as Jersey won their fourth cycling gold and their second team mountain bike title - the island were team criterium winners on Tuesday. Jersey are top of the cycling medal table having win four gold, two silver and two bronze medals. Another medal for archer Perrett Meanwhile Jersey archer Mollie Perrett won her fifth medal at Orkney 2025. Perrett, along with Fred Crosby and Tony Vardon won bronze in the team recurve head to head. Having lost to Guernsey 6-2 in the semi-finals the trio recovered to beat Shetland 6-0 in the bronze medal play-off. It was a first bronze of the games for Perrett, who has won mixed and women's recurve team head to head knockout gold and women's 1440 recurve gold. She also won a silver in the single 1440 recurve team event. "I didn't think I'd be coming home with anything, so to win gold on the first day and a silver was fantastic," Perrett told BBC Radio Jersey. "Winning that gold on the first day definitely helped, it boosted my confidence that maybe I can do this. "Having that team around you and seeing that other people are here to support has definitely helped." Perrett's medal came as Jersey's bowlers won their third medal of the games. The island's men's triples side of Josh Band, Kevin Le Long and Michael Rive won silver behind hosts Orkney.
BBC News
5 days ago
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- BBC News
Jersey's men win Island Games mountain bike gold
Jersey's cyclists have added another gold medal to their tally at the 2025 Island Games after winning team mountain bike cross country squad of Liam Cadoret, Jay Cracknell, James Dilks, Jacob Mauger and Ben Richards all finished inside the top eight as Jersey's riders dominated the race ahead of Isle of Man and won individual silver as he finished almost two minutes behind Shetland's gold medallist Grant Ferguson. Dilks took bronze 1:14 behind Mauger while Cracknell was almost two minutes further back in fourth place. Richards finished seventh and Cadoret eighth as Jersey won their fourth cycling gold and their second team mountain bike title - the island were team criterium winners on Tuesday. Jersey are top of the cycling medal table having win four gold, two silver and two bronze medals. Another medal for archer Perrett Meanwhile Jersey archer Mollie Perrett won her fifth medal at Orkney along with Fred Crosby and Tony Vardon won bronze in the team recurve head to head. Having lost to Guernsey 6-2 in the semi-finals the trio recovered to beat Shetland 6-0 in the bronze medal play-off. It was a first bronze of the games for Perrett, who has won mixed and women's recurve team head to head knockout gold and women's 1440 recurve also won a silver in the single 1440 recurve team event. "I didn't think I'd be coming home with anything, so to win gold on the first day and a silver was fantastic," Perrett told BBC Radio Jersey."Winning that gold on the first day definitely helped, it boosted my confidence that maybe I can do this."Having that team around you and seeing that other people are here to support has definitely helped."Perrett's medal came as Jersey's bowlers won their third medal of the island's men's triples side of Josh Band, Kevin Le Long and Michael Rive won silver behind hosts Orkney.
BBC News
14-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Campbell wins Island Games shot put gold for Jersey
Jersey's Evan Campbell has won shot put gold for Jersey at the 2025 Island threw a distance of 14.29m to finish 0.29m ahead of Orkney's Calum Elder and while Saaremaa's Rauno Liitmae won bronze with a throw of was an upgrade on the bronze medal that Campbell won in the event two years ago in Guernsey. "As there's been no discus at these games that cuts out a few of the throws as a lot of people come over and do the discus and the shot put," Campbell told BBC Radio Jersey."I think my throw today would have been bronze again in Guernsey, so it was a bit of an easier field."But I still had to step up and handle the pressure."It came as Jersey's George Rice won silver in the 10,000m. Rice was the best of the rest as Isle of Man's Corrin Leeming set a new Island Games record of 29:56.11 with Rice finishing more than two minutes later. Four archery medals for Jersey Jersey archer Mollie Perrett won gold in the Single WA 1440 Women's Recurve event. Perrett was 40 points clear of Falkland Islands' Louise Clarke with Guernsey's Monika Komla a further four points was one of four archery medals won by Jersey as Perrett and her teammates Frederick Crosby, Darren Jones and Tony Vardon win team Perrett won individual Single WA 1440 Women's Compound bronze as she and teammates Hannah Bridle, Francisco Rocha and Heath Perrett took team bronze.
