Medals for Guernsey on final day of Island Games

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18-07-2025

Guernsey's Alex Tapp and David Trebert have won silver in badminton's men's doubles at the 2025 Island Games.
The duo, who reached the last 16 two years ago on home soil, had not dropped a game on their way to the final.
But they could not find a way past Faroe Islands' top seeds Magnus Dal-Christiansen and Runi Oster as they were beaten 21-11, 21-12 in the final.
"We believed we had an outside chance of getting a medal - the final might have bene pushing it a little bit far," Trebert told BBC Guernsey.
"But had we performed at our best in the final we might have had a better chance of winning the gold."
Having been seeded outside the top four the Guernsey duo had to overcome Faroes' third seeds Jonas Djurhuus and Asbjorn Heide Olsen in the quarter finals.
They thenh went on to defeat Menorca's second seeds Albert Navarro Comes and Carlos Riudavets Sintes in the semi finals.
"We came into these games as a five to eight seed, and having looked at the draw we thought if we could play at our best level there was a chance," added Tapp.
"Did I think we would get a silver medal? No probably not, but to have knocked out the number two seeds on the way here we can't really complain with that."
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Meanwhile Guernsey's men's half marathon runners Sammy Galpin, James Priest and Ethan Woodhead won a bronze medal in the team event.
Galpin was 24 seconds off an individual medal as he finished in fourth place behind Faroe Islands' Julian Gregersen.
Priest was 10th while Woodhead finished in 17th place.