Sport / Island Games round-up: Dinwoodie does it again and Todd takes centre stage
TRACK stars Katie Dinwoodie and Layla Todd bagged bronze medals after exceptional runs in races that were testing for different reasons on Wednesday.
Dinwoodie came through a stacked women’s 200m field to clinch third place in a time of 24.87s, holding off Orkney’s Abi Coltherd and the Isle of Man’s Meghan Pilley to continue her streak of three consecutive medals in the 200m race.
Then teenager Todd – suffering from an ankle injury – somehow managed to conjure up a special performance to win a maiden medal at her first Island Games by clinching bronze in the women’s 5,000m race.
Shetland’s Katie Clubb also put in a superb run, crossing the line in fifth place with a time of 17 minutes and 40 seconds.
An emotional Todd was responsible for Wednesday’s most memorable moment in being hoisted up by coach David Wagstaff to celebrate with her team-mates, before limping up to the podium on crutches to collect her medal.
For Dinwoodie it was not only her second medal of the 2025 games, but also preserves her perfect record of winning medals in the 100m and 200m events over the past three games.
There was also a terrific performance at the track on Wednesday from 16-year-old Jessie Tait, who finished in an impressive sixth place out of 11 shot putters.
At her first Island Games she succeeded in her aim to make it into the final eight, battling off her nerves to land a score of 8.90m and putting her well within a metre of the podium postions.
And sprinter Kian Redman finished less than a second behind the medal places in the 200m final, recording a time of 22.49s, as he impressed once again.
SWIMMER Julian Okroj set new Shetland records in both the 200m backstroke and 800m freestyle in a tremendous showing from
the 14-year-old on Wednesday.
Okroj was the fastest in the morning 800m heat with a time of 8:48.01, putting him sixth in the field overall.
And in the 200m backstroke his time of 2:11 earned him a new record, with him and Finlay Geddes just missing out on places in the final.
Lockie Bullough also broke the 15-16 Shetland record for the 50m butterfly in a time of 26.48s, while Joe Carter narrowly missed out on a final place in the 100m freestyle but secured a new PB with a time of 53.47s.
There were also PBs from Geddes in the same race, Lockie Bullough in the 50m butterfly (and a new Shetland record) and from Rhona Anderson and Caitlin Galbraith in the 200m backstroke.
ROSS Osborn was Shetland’s fastest finisher in the men’s cycling road race in the West Mainland of Orkney on Wednesday afternoon.
He crossed the line in 21st place in a time of 2:25:46, with team-mates Andrew Grant and Andy Aitken next to each other in 34th and 35th place.
Robin Atkinson came off his bike during the race and had to be treated for his injuries.
Lynsey Henderson was 12th in the women’s event, finishing up in 1:43:06.
SHETLAND’S men’s triples bowls team remain in the hunt for a medal after winning three of their first five matches.
The blues have one game to play, against bottom side Western Isles, and currently sit in third place.
The team of Ian Leiper, Eric Muir and Tam Terris have beat Guernsey, Bermuda and Falkland Islands, but lost to leaders Orkney and second placed Jersey.
They play their final match on Thursday.
THERE were quarter-final exits for Shetland’s remaining men’s and women’s badminton doubles pairings after great performances to make the last eight.
Aimee Keith and Amy Sineath were beaten 2-0 by the top seeds from Isle of Man on Wednesday afternoon, who will now contest the gold medal match on Thursday.
Chloe Hitchin and Shona Mackay also lost out 2-0 to Orkney’s Jody Groundwater and Rebecca Reid, while Thomas Calder and Luca Russell were beaten by the team from Greenland.
HEATHER Hogg has moved up to 13th in the women’s golf table after a superb third round at Orkney Golf Club in Kirkwall.
Hogg shot 74 to take her total to 246, with the bronze medal position sitting on 225 shots.
Stacy Warren is in 21st after a score of 86 on Wednesday, while Alison Laurenson shot the same score to put her 24th. Angelina Jamieson is in 30th.
Kieren Fraser shot his best score of the competition with 73 on Wednesday to move up to 36th in the table, with Robert Geddes still leading the way for team Shetland in 31st.
Mike Stein shot 78 and Joshua Morrison 79 at Stromness, with the competition moving into the final round on Thursday.
ARCHER Benjamin Hamer made the quarter-finals of the men’s recurve head-to-head event on Wednesday before losing to the eventual gold medal winner.
Hamer came through ties against opponents from Sark and Åland before being beat by William Chater of the Falkland Islands.
Double medal winner Billy Finnie narrowly lost 6-5 to Roberto Gomez Gonzalez of Menorca, who went on to lose the bronze medal match.
Fellow medal winner Katie MacFarlane lost 6-4 to Kirsty Lewis of the Falkland Islands in the women’s event, with Karen Lobban also losing out in the round of 16.
The archery competition comes to an end on Thursday with the compound and recurve team events.
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