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 as she impressed on the first day of swimming at the 2025 Island Games.

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

She shattered the Island Games record for the 400m individual medley with a time of 4 mins 43.96 secs - 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 but finished more than six seconds behind.

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

Bown was also 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 had seen her win 22 medals over the previous three events, including eight golds, added another to her collection.

The 23-year-old came second in the 100m butterfly, losing out to Cayman Islands' Sierrah Broadbelt by just 0.26 secs.