Guernsey’s Chloe Bown won three gold medals at she impressed on the first day of swimming at the 2023 Island Games.
Bown – swimming at her first Island Games – won gold in the 200m freestyle, 400m individual medley and 4x50m freestyle relay.
Bown shattered the Island Games record for the 400m individual medley swimming in a time of 4:43.96 – beating the 14-year-old mark set by Isle of Man’s former Great Britain swimmer Charlotte Atkinson in 2011.
Teammate Oriana Wheeler won silver as she finished more than six seconds behind.
In the 200m freestyle Bown’s time of 2:00.47 was four-and-a-half seconds ahead of Faroe Islands’ silver medallist Alisa Vestergard.
And Bown was part of the relay team alongside the experienced trio of Molly Staples, Tatiana Tostevin and Orla Rabey that took gold by almost a second from Aland.