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SWIMMER Kerrie Smith picked up Jersey’s first award at the Jeux des Iles yesterday as she swam an great 200m backstroke to strike silver.
With a private best and citizen qualifying time of 2.27.02 the 13-year-old said: ‘It’s prodigious to be the first Jersey medallist.
I wasn’t anticipating to do it but my turns went well and my stroke rate was agreeable so the race went really well.’ With her parents seeing at the poolside the Les Quennevais student went on to acquisition fifth in the 50m backstroke, sixth in the 200m free and eighth in the 400m individual medley.
The swimmers truly were on form in Bastia as 21 private best periods were smashed among the nine swimmers which put them in seventh overall.
Tom Gallichan achieved a citizen qualifying time as he finished eighth in the 400m IM and another as he came 11th in the 200m free after earlier picking up sixth in the 200m backstroke.
While Charlotte Manning missed out above copper at an 100th of a second as she came home fourth in the 100m breaststroke ahead racing home fifth in the 400m IM.
The 4 x 100m free relay team also just missed out on a bronze as Sophie Van Neste,
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Excellent results were also attained by the rugby in Monticello as the sevens team remained undefeated to qualify for today’s demonstration sport final opposition Sicily who are also unbeaten.
As reported yesterday Jersey opened the day with a 14-0 slamming of Mayotte then a 14-10 win over Sardinia.
Needing a victory to qualify for today’s final Jersey equitable edged via against 14-12 over Guadeloupe, with their least-impressive performance of the tournament.
Mathew Gosselin and Greg Turner scored the tries with the two Daniels, Clark and McAviney, joining a conversion every.
Guadeloupe had the chance to make it 14-14 but sliced a conversion kick wide which meant Jersey progress as group champions.
And nevertheless it was confirmed yesterday that the sport will not be embodied in Guadeloupe’s cardinal agenda for next year’s event,
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Said Jersey team
coach Mark White: ‘It’s been a magnificent competition,
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Our lads have been great, every once in a while the pitch, so we’re right backward Guadeloupe’s migrate to include rugby again.
I understand it takes two years as a demonstration sport before it namely included as a mainstream event anyhow.’ Back in Ajaccio the table tennis team showed great manhood as they bounced back from a disappointing start to win their matches and take third in Division II � just missing out on a promotion place for next year.
They buffet Martinique 3-0 with Josh Band winning his knot 3-0,
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Next they overpowered Mayotte 3-1 with Band winning 3-0, Walker losing 3-2, Cassin winning 3-0 and,
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In the doubles Band and Cassin connected forces but Jersey were knocked out 3-1 by Guadeloupe � a tough individual accident gets started this afternoon.
Meanwhile, facing top class competition, Jersey’s sailors acquired some great results in the opening three races of their event.
With entire the opponents lining up for the start there were over 60 Optimist canoes raring to go but a late alteration of course during the second marathon averaged namely that result was voided and an average taken from race one and three to give points for race two � Laurence Carter the biggest misfortune as his 15th finish position was demoted to 25th.
Current locations behind three races put Fleur Moisan (15) in 16th overall afterward finishing 14th, 20th and 19th and Laura-Jane Carter (14) in 20th as she crossed the line for 18th, 23rd and 24th in the girls’ races.
While 14-year-old Charles Perkins achieved a 13th, 17th and 20th to put him in 16th overall, 11-year-old Laurence Carter showed great agree to elect up a 22nd, 25th and 27th and immediately lies in 26th.
The tennis teams found the going a mini harder yesterday � the girls received a goodbye as Corsica withdrew from the event, but then came up against top class Croatian side Korcula.
Kirsten McArthur lost 6-1,
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James Faudemer won 6-7, 6-1, 10-5; Scott Clayton won 6-1, 6-3 and the couple lost the doubles 10-5 in the deciding tiebreak.
They next faced Gran Canaria and lost 3-0 � Faudemer having to face Spain’s junior No 3 in his opening game.
The Jersey teams now face the play offs to resolve fifth to eighth place.
In the gymnastics, Jersey bettered their position from Sicily last year by coming sixth in the team competition.
All 4 gymnasts fulfilled well throughout the day and Lisa Luce (14) was the top finisher in 16th.
Olivia Ward (12) was 18th, Lisa Day (13) was 23rd and Shinarah le Blancq (12) was 30th � the team wait the bulletin of the individual results today to penetrate if they are in the top 6 to qualify because the last round.
On the athletics alley, coaches Andrew and Sandra Winnie were pleased with their team’s performance on the opening day of competition.
With the squad’s main memorabilia still to come yesterday was seen as a good accident to obtain a feel for the track.
There were promising performances from tall jumper Ross Jeffs who missed out on a long jump pb by just 4 cms meantime the 4 x 100m girls’ relay team finished just appearance of the medals as they came fourth from the time trial heats.
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