Island Games afternoon update: Medal prospects at pool and track on Monday

SHETLAND’S swimmers are in the hunt for medals on Monday night after a strong opening performance at a packed Pickaquoy pool on Monday.

Swimmers Julian Okroj (left) and Cailean Johnson pose together. Photo: Kevin Jones

Swimmers Julian Okroj (left) and Cailean Johnson pose together. Photo: Kevin Jones

With some spectators queuing from the early hours of the morning for the sparse seating, Shetland’s supporters instead filled the cinema at the Pickaquoy leisure centre to watch the action unfold.

Julian Okroj set an impressive time of 16:55 in the men’s 1,500m freestyle morning heat, with an evening heat to decide the overall positions.

Joe Carter is through to tonight’s men’s 100m butterfly final, while Emmie Hutchison is into the women’s 100m butterfly final.

Jasmin Smith will contest the final of the women’s 50m breaststroke, an event she won a bronze medal in at the Guernsey games two years ago.

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THERE will be strong Shetland interest at the athletics track also tonight, with Bobby Laurenson through the final of the men’s 400m race.

Laurenson cruised through his semi-final on Monday morning, winning in a time of 49.03s and setting a new PB in the process.

Neil Arthur will contest the men’s 10,000m race just after 5pm, with Dhanni Moar competing in the men’s shot put at around 5.30pm.

Sprinters Sophie Grant and Katie Dinwoodie are then in women’s 100m semi-final action shortly after 6pm, with Jack Baronet and Kian Redman competing against each other in the same men’s 400m semi-final at 6.40pm.

Laurenson’s 400m final takes place at 7.15pm, with Shetland’s sprinters hoping to be back at the starting line for the men’s and women’s 100m finals just after that.

SHETLAND will take on the Isle of Wight in the badminton team event seventh/eighth place play-off after losing to Guernsey on Monday morning.

The blues went 1-0 up on their opponents but succumbed to an eventual 4-1 defeat, and will play Isle of Wight hoping to secure seventh spot from 3pm this afternoon.

THE SHETLAND women’s football team will return to the pitch this afternoon for their second taste of Island Games action.

After an impressive 2-2 draw with Isle of Wight on Sunday, the blues face Jersey – who lost 3-1 to Bermuda – at 3.30pm in Kirkwall.

They will hope to go one better than Sunday’s point and earn a victory which would leave them with a good chance of qualification, with a very tough test against gold medallists Bermuda to come on Tuesday.

BOWLERS Alex Elphinstone and Gibbie Pottinger continued their flawless start to the men’s pairs competition with a victory over opponents from Guernsey at the Kirkwall Bowling Club on Monday.

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Anne Robertson was defeated by Orkney’s Isla Rendall in the women’s singles event, while Andy Walterson has won one and lost one on Monday to keep him second in the men’s singles table.

Gibbie Pottinger releases the ball. Photo: Kevin Jones

Gibbie Pottinger releases the ball. Photo: Kevin Jones

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