Record-breaking Nowacki wins first Island Games medal
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 took more than 1.5 seconds off the former Island Games record set by compatriot Ian Black in 2015.
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Nowacki, who set a long course best of 59.59 earlier while with Great Britain, lowered his Island Games record as he swam 58.10 in the final in the short course pool at Kirkwall as he took more than two seconds off the previous record.
His team-mate Matthew Deffains finished sixth in the same final.
The gold came soon after compatriot Sam Sterry had won silver in the 1,500m freestyle.
Sterry was second almost 11 seconds behind Faroe Islands' Liggjas Joensen.
Earlier this month Nowacki won two gold medals and a silver at the European Junior Swimming Championships in Slovakia.
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.
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The squad of Ollie Cadin, Tom Huelin, Samuel Nisbet and Jack Rebours were second behind the Isle of Man, with Gibraltar getting 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.
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