Three more gold medals at Island Games

TEAM Shetland continued to do the islands proud at the Nat West Island Games when they won three more gold medals, plus one silver and one bronze medal, during Thursday’s events.

Andrea Strachan completed her outstanding performance in the pool with a fourth gold medal, this time in the100 metres individual medley which she won in the new games record time of 1:04.59.

Emma Leask won the first athletics gold medal for Shetland when she came first in the 800 metres in a time of 2:11.72 minutes.

And a third gold medal for Shetland was won by cyclist Christine Maclean in the women’s individual time trial in a time of 47 minutes and 40 seconds, six seconds of silver medal winner Sue Townsend, from Jersey.

During a highly successful swimming competition which ended on Thursday night, Shetland swimmer Amy Harper won her fifth medal of the games when she was second in the women’s 100 metres freestyle. She narrowly missed out on a sixth medal when she came in fourth in the 50 metres backstroke.

And Brae swimmer Felix Gifford won a much deserved bronze medal in the 400 metres freestyle, also on Thursday.