Swimmer Bown wins three Island Games gold medals

Chloe Bown was involved in winning all three of Guernsey's swimming gold medals on the first day of competition

Guernsey's Chloe Bown won three gold medals at she impressed on the first day of swimming at the 2023 Island Games.

Bown - swimming at her first Island Games - won gold in the 200m freestyle, 400m individual medley and 4x50m freestyle relay.

Bown 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 behind.

In the 200m freestyle Bown's time of 2:00.47 was four-and-a-half seconds ahead of Faroe Islands' silver medallist Alisa Vestergard.

And 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.

Orla Rabey has taken her Island Games medal tally up to 24 in four games

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 collection.

The 23-year-old came second in the 100m butterfly as she lost out to Cayman Islands' Sierrah Broadbelt by 0.26 seconds.