Half marathon medal 'not meant to happen' - Troy
Jess Troy has been working as part of the filming team for the Island Games, as well as being an athlete
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Jersey's Jess Troy says she cannot believe she won an Island Games silver medal in the half marathon.
Troy ran a personal best of one hour 23 minutes 37 seconds to finish runner-up behind Isle of Man's Christa Cain in Orkney.
The medal was even more remarkable as Troy has been working 15-hour shifts as part of the team filming the Island Games for local media.
"I came into this race injured and I'd been working filming the races for TV for the whole week," Troy told BBC Jersey.
"I was just looking to have fun, enjoy it and represent Jersey one last time - that was not meant to happen, getting a medal."
Jess Troy received the adulation of the crowd as she crossed the finishing line in Kirkwall
It was a second Island Games medal for the Jersey runner who won bronze at the 2019 Island Games in Gibraltar.
"I started out far too fast," she added.
"I was up with the lead pack and I shouted to my team manager 'I've really messed this up'.
"He was like 'just keep going, just see how long you can hold it' and even the girls who were with me were like 'just stick with us and see what you can do'.
"So I did that, expecting to be dropped by them, but they kept peeling back and I'm apparently better at running hills than I realised.
"I didn't even think I'd finish this race today because of injury, so to come home with a medal I'm so immensely proud of myself, I can't put it into words."
Record-breaking gold for 4x100m relay team
Steven Mackay put a hamstring injury aside to anchor Jersey to gold
Jersey's 4x100m relay team set a new island record as they won gold in 41.63 seconds.
The team of Evan Campbell, Jamie Oldham, Tyler Johnson and Steven Mackay finished almost half a second ahead of silver medallists Ynys Mon as Isle of Man came third.
For Mackay - who had set a new Jersey 100m record in the build up to the games - it was a chance to return to form after a hamstring injury had hampered him in Orkney.
He finished third in the individual 100m final behind silver medallist Oldham and Menorca's gold medallist Sebastia Pons Triay.
"I'm ecstatic," Mackay told BBC Radio Jersey.
"Since Monday all I've been thinking is 'focus on the team, get fit and focus on the relay', and I'm really happy now."
Two more golds for unbeatable Chamberlain
Ted Chamberlain secured a second gold medal at Orkney 2025 in the 800m
Jersey's Ted Chamberlain added 800m and 4x400m gold medals to the 1500m title he won earlier in the week.
Chamberlain, who was the fastest runner going into the 800m, finished in a time of 1:51.65 to end his first island Games with two golds from two events.
He was 0.33 seconds in front of Isle of Man's Sam Perry while Guernsey's Gian-Luca Robilliard was third.
He then teamed up with Mackay, Oldham and Tyler Johnson to guide the 4x400m relay team home to gold in a time of 3:17.35 - more than five seconds ahead of Faroe Islands who won silver and Isle of Man who took bronze.
"You never expect to win, you have to earn the right to win," Chamberlain told BBC Radio Jersey.
"I just wanted to come here and fight with everything I had, and to come away with two golds in the middle distance events is just a dream come true."