Many Medal Opportunities On 'Fantastic Friday'

Guernsey goes into the last day of the games with 126 medals and looks set to easily beat its 2003 total, with plenty of scope for more wins today.

Team Guernsey is looking to extend its dominance of the Island Games on the last day of competition that the organisers are calling 'Fantastic Friday.'

Guernsey has 126 medals so far, 44 gold, 43 silver and 39 bronze.

Much of the action focuses on the St Peter Port sea front. There, Guernsey will be looking for podiums places in the half marathon, the cycling criteriums and the mixed triathlon relay.

Many thousands are expected to watch the action, with the rainy, windy weather unlikely to deter the crowds that have flocked to all the events. Last night (13 July), spectators had to be turned away from Beau Sejour as it reached capacity.

Gold for the women's MTB XC team

Guernsey's cyclists had another medal winning day with gold for the women's cross country team and individual silver for James Roe in the XC at L'Ancresse. The ladies say it's down to years of training:

"Ecstatic. We worked worked so hard for that, for two, three years, it's been a long time coming."

James Roe on his way to a second MTB silver.

In the last swimming events, Ronny Hallett took another gold, this time in the men's 200 metre breaststroke, while Orla Rabey won the women's 200 metre butterfly and there was a team gold in the women's 4x100 metre medley relay.

Triple world champion bowler Alison Merrien has another gold medal, this time beating husband Ian in the singles final. He says they're used to facing each other in competition and in practise:

"We've played against each other a few times before. We're always in contact so it doesn't feel so different to us as it does to others."

Josh Bonsall and Bradley Le Noury won gold for Guernsey in the bowls open pairs:

"It's been an awesome week and important for bowls in Guernsey. Having not had the sport in for so long, it's just made such a big impact, it's got people interested and it's been a brilliant display the whole week by everybody."

Josh Bonsall and Bradley Le Noury

At Footes Lane, Rhianna Dowinton leapt into gold in the women's 100 metre hurdles. Victoria Hancock got bronze in the same race while Peter Curtis took bronze in the men's event.

On the water, Andy Bridgman was the gold medalist in the ICLA 7 class.

Excellent Gold in tricky conditions for Andrew Bridgman in the Sailing! #GSY #Guernsey2023 pic.twitter.com/DqSHhB6ENc

— Andrew Senneck (@andrew8912) July 13, 2023

There were golds too for Alice Edwards and Dawn Morgan in the table tennis doubles and Guernsey's women shooters were on target for two more golds in the pistol events.

It's Guernsey v Jersey in the women's tennis singles this morning, with Lauren Watson-Steele guaranteed a silver but going for gold.

You can follow all the action with updates at 8.30am,1.30pm, 5.30pm and 9pm on islandfm.com

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