Island Games debutante Inderwick not only won the women’s road race at Orkney 2025 but spearheaded a team gold, while Gray claimed her first individual title of a lengthy career.
Inderwick had made the main breakaway in the 60km road race, with her bold ride in hot conditions building up to the moment she won a four-way sprint for top spot.
She shared the team podium with Hannah Kennedy, Chloe Truffitt and Andrea Nightingale on the West Mainland-based course.
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‘It’s only just sunk in really – after chatting to some friends and family on the finish – it’s amazing,’ she said.
Incredibly, she only started cycling two years ago, but it allowed her to achieve a childhood dream.
‘It has been a dream to compete in the Island Games. When I was at school, I never knew what sport that would be in.
‘To be able to, 10 years later, get myself to an Island Games in cycling I could not believe it.’
Golden moment for Guernsey archer
Gray’s long-awaited victory had come in the women’s compound head-to-head knockout.
At the Pickaquoy Centre outfield, she overcame Anja Eydnudottir 137-132 in the final to take the glory.
‘Unbelievable, overwhelming, unexpected as well,’ she said of that golden feeling.
‘I didn’t go in expecting a gold. My performance has been a bit below what I would like normally, both in training and coming into the Games, but I surprised myself with it and pulled my finger out when I needed to.’
Archery ally and former Sark competitor Monika Komla claimed her second medal of the week, this time a silver in the recurve head-to-head knockout.
Mission accomplished in the pool
Indoors at ‘Picky’, the Guernsey women’s 4x100m freestyle relay swimmers came up with a gold of their own – and a special one.
They set a Games record of 3min. 48.73sec. in an event that, two years ago, marked the only blemish in their clean sweep of relay golds.
Orla Rabey earned a 400m freestyle silver but was trailed closely by Delphine Riley, who secured her second individual bronze of these Games. Impressive debutante Chloe Bown added a 100m breaststroke bronze.
After the high of two golds and silvers the previous day, it proved a quieter day on the athletics front with no medals won.
Read much more from the Orkney Island Games in Thursday’s Guernsey Press.
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