Island swimmers break record twice on final day
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Guernsey women's 4x100m medley relay team twice broke the island record as Channel Island swimmers closed their Commonwealth Games campaign.
The team of Tatiana Tostevin, Orla Rabey, Oriana Wheeler and Tallulah-Mae Rautenbach finished eighth in the final in s time of 4:21.66
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It beat the Guernsey record of 4:22.15 that they set to reach the final on Wednesday morning.
That time took 1.32 seconds off the old Guernsey record as they qualified in eighth place.
But there will not be a fourth final for Jersey star Filip Nowacki.
The 18-year-old became Jersey's first gold medallist since 1990 when he won 200m breaststroke on Tuesday.
That added to the 100m breaststroke silver he won on Saturday and his fifth-placed finish in the 50m breaststroke.
But alongside team-mates Isaac Thompson, Isaac Dodds and Sam Sterry they finished fourth in their men's 4x100m medley relay heat in 3:45.22.
Their time saw them ninth-fastest, 0.72 seconds off making the final, as Guernsey's men were disqualified from their heat.
Sterry was the fastest of the Channel Islanders in the men's 200m freestyle - his time of 1:53.15 saw him finish 23rd-fastest.
Jersey team-mates Matthew Deffains and Oscar Dodds were 30th and 31st-quickest respectively while Guernsey's Henry Bolton was 31st-fastest and Zachary Maiden 34th.
In the women's 200m butterfly Wheeler was 11th-fastest in 2:24.08 while Jersey's Clara Ginnis was one place and just over three seconds behind.