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Swimmers Felix Gifford and Lauren Sandison both scooped medals on Thursday evening. Gifford, a four-time Island Games gold medallist, secured his third medal of the 2019 games when he came third in the 400 metres freestyle. Sandison then won her first of the games when she took bronze in t... Read more...
Katie Dinwoodie won her second medal of the games when she bettered her 100 metres bronze by taking gold in the 200 metres. For the second time this week Dinwoodie had to endure a lengthy wait to find out where she had placed after a tense photo-finish. The knife-edge result came after th... Read more...
Isles athlete Lucy Holden has added a first silver to Team Shetland's medal tally following success in the high jump. The high jumper's height of 1.59 metres saw her take second place on Wednesday afternoon, finishing only behind Saaremaa's Teele Treiel, who took her second gold in the discip... Read more...
Shetland's swimming team has now notched five bronze medals in the 2019 NatWest Island Games after three more medals were won on Tuesday evening. Felix Gifford added a second bronze to his games tally with success in the 100 metre butterfly. Twins Emmie and Anne Hutchison added two more with t... Read more...
Athletics star Seumas MacKay has defended the 800 metres Island Games title he won in Gotland two years ago. MacKay's gold is Shetland's first of the 2019 NatWest International Island Games and the athletics team's second medal overall after Katie Dinwoodie won a bronze in the 100 metres on Monda... Read more...
Team Shetland added to its medal tally on Monday as the isles' swimmers enjoyed success in the pool. Four-time gold medallist Felix Gifford won Shetland's first in the water when he took third place in the 200 metre butterfly. Jasmin Smith, a medal winner in her first Island Games in Gotland ... Read more...
Sprinter Katie Dinwoodie has won Shetland's second medal of the 2019 NatWest International Island Games. Dinwoodie came third in the 100 metres on Monday afternoon in a tense photo-finish. The young sprinter was one of two Shetlanders to make it to the 100 metres final with Faye Cox also compe... Read more...
Two Shetland triathletes bagged top ten finishes as Shetland recorded its first medal of the 2019 Island Games. Louise Parr came eight overall with a time of two hours and forty-two minutes, eleven minutes behind the Faroese winner Súsanna Skylv Sørensen. Shelley Humphray came ninth and Miri... Read more...
Councillors have backed plans for Shetland to bid to host the NatWest Island Games in 2027 and the Tall Ships Races in 2023. (more…) Read more...
A medal rush at the track saw three top-three finished in quick succession for Team Shetland, taking their games total to 14 in Gotland. Shooter Magnus Laurenson bagged gold in the Olympic Skeet individual event earlier on today, finishing in third place overnight. The competition went right to ... Read more...