Record-breaking Nowacki wins first Island Games medals
Filip Nowacki broke the European junior 200m breaststroke and the British junior 100m breaststroke records this year
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Jersey's European junior record holder Filip Nowacki twice smashed the Island Games record as he won 100m breaststroke gold.
The 17-year-old's time in the heats of 58.73 secs took more than 1.5 secs off the previous record set by compatriot Ian Black in 2015.
Nowacki, who set a long course best of 59.59 secs earlier in July while swimming for Great Britain, then lowered his own record with 58.10 in the final in the short course pool at Kirkwall as he took more than two seconds off the previous record.
Jersey team-mate Matthew Deffains finished sixth in the final.
Earlier this month, Nowacki won two gold medals and a silver at the European Junior Swimming Championships in Slovakia.
And he went on to add a second gold medal - and break a second Island Games record - as he won the 200m individual medley.
Nowacki finished in 1:59.17, almost three secs clear of Isak Brisenfeldt from the Faroe Islands and Jersey's Isaac Dodds, who won bronze.
Nowacki and Brisenfeldt had been neck and neck until the breaststroke leg when the Team GB swimmer pulled clear to beat the previous record of 2:00.35.
He then helped Jersey 4x50m medley relay team win silver behind the Isle of Man, who broke the Island Games record.
The medals followed compatriot Sam Sterry winning silver in the 1,500m freestyle.
Sterry finished almost 11 secs behind Faroe Islands' Liggjas Joensen.
Meanwhile, Dodds added a silver in the 200m butterfly and Clara Ginnis won bronze in the 400m individual medley.
Silver medal for Jersey's cyclists
Meanwhile, Jersey's first medal of the day came from their cyclists in the men's team time trial.
The squad of Ollie Cadin, Tom Huelin, Samuel Nisbet and Jack Rebours were second behind the Isle of Man, with Gibraltar taking bronze.
Huelin was Jersey's best rider as he finished fourth in the individual event, 45 seconds off Guernsey's bronze medallist Philip Touzeau.
Rebours was one place and seven seconds further back, while Nisbet was eighth and Cadin 13th.