NatWest Island Games day four - update
LEE GARLAND has bagged silver in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Island Games.
LEE GARLAND has bagged silver in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Island Games.
The veteran of the Guernsey athletics team clocked 9-39.18 to finished second behind home runner Thomas Wade (9-17.67) in the final event of the evening on the Fairway athletics track in the Isle of Wight.
LOUISE PERRIO has defended her 10,000m title at the Island Games in the Isle of Wight.
The Guernsey athlete clocked 37min. 22.34sec. to win gold by a relatively comfortable six-and-a-half seconds at the Fairway athletics track.
Earlier, Dale Garland had won silver in the long jump with a distance of 7.24m. The winner, Carl Morgan from the Cayman Islands, jumped 7.62.
GUERNSEY men's 4x100m medley quartet have blitzed the Island Games record to claim another swimming gold in the Isle of Wight.
The team of Ian Powell, Tom Hollingsworth, Ben Lowndes and Jeremy Osborne sliced nearly four-and-a-half seconds off the time set by the Guernsey four in 2009 as they won in 3-44.98 at Medina Leisure Centre.
That came after Lotte Parfit had claimed a fine silver in the women's 200m backstroke final.
IAN POWELL'S gold run has come to an end in dramatic fashion at the Island Games.
The Guernseyman had to settle for silver in an extraordinary 50m butterfly final in which all three medalists were inside 25sec. and also the previous Games record.
Sixteen-year-old Magnus Jakupsson from the Faroe Islands won the touch in a time of 24.79, with Powell clocking 24.91 and fellow Guernseyman Tom Hollingsworth third in 24.94.
It was the first time at these Games that Powell has been beaten in an individual final.
IAN POWELL has become the first man to go under 2min. for 200m backstroke at the Island Games.
The 25-year-old Guernsey star clocked an amazing 1-58.14 to take the best part of three seconds off the Games record in winning gold this evening.
Fellow Guernseyman Stewart Hume finished fifth.
Meanwhile, archer Mike Appelqvist has won a silver in the men's compound head-to-head and squash player Issey Norman-Ross has won bronze in the women's singles.
SWIMMERS Tom Hollingsworth and Kristina Neves have won the first two golds in the pool this evening, both in record times.
Hollingsworth smashed the 100m individual medley record with a time of 56.15sec. to win gold, with defending champion Ben Lowndes taking bronze.
Then Neves took two-and-a-half seconds off the women's 400m freestyle record to win in 4-16.97.
GUERNSEY will face Aland in tomorrow afternoon's football semi-final at the Island Games.
The Alanders beat Saaremaa 5-3 in a specially arranged penalty shoot-out this afternoon after both sides had finished with identical records in group D.
Elsewhere, Guernsey's chances of gold in the men's singles table tennis competition ended as Garry Dodd and Olly Langlois both lost to strong Gotlanders in the quarter-finals.
However, there is better news in the women's singles in which Guernsey are guaranteed at least a silver medal as Alice Loveridge and Dawn Morgan will face each other in the semi-finals.
THE Guernsey swim team will have 13 finalists in this evening's session at the NatWest Island Games.
In this morning's heats at the Medina Leisure Centre, Ian Powell and Tom Hollingsworth both qualified for two individual finals apiece while Ben Lowndes, Kristina Neves, Stewart Hume, sisters Victoria and Lotte Parfit, Ian Hubert and Jeremy Osborne also made the top six of an event each.
The men's 4x100m medley and women's 4x100m freestyle teams are also safely through to their finals.
Meanwhile, Aland and Saaremaa will face each other in a penalty shoot-out at 2pm this afternoon to decide Guernsey's opponents in the men's football semi-finals tomorrow. The two sides finished with identical records in group D.
Elsewhere, Issey Norman-Ross has missed out on a place in the women's singles squash final, but will play-off for the bronze medal.
Reports in Thursday's Guernsey Press.
