Swimming
Water based sports, both sea and pool based are popular with Islanders competing in the Island Games
Gold Medal winners in the Island Games include:
- Mens 50m Backstroke - Ian Powell
- Mens 100m Freestyle - Jeremy Osborne
- Mens 100m Butterfly - Ian Powell, Ben Lowndes
- Mens 100m Individual Medley - Thomas Hollingsworth, Ben Lowndes
- Mens 100m Backstroke - Ian Powell
- Mens 200m Backstroke - Ian Powell
- Mens 200m Butterfly - Ian Powell, Ben Lowndes
- Mens 200m Individual Medley - Thomas Hollingsworth
- Womens 50m Breastroke - Helen Watts, Kristina Neves
- Womens 100m Breastroke - Helen Watts
- Womens 100m Butterfly - Kristina Neves, Robyn Le Friec
- Womens 200m Freestyle - C. Jackson, Sam Herridge, Kristina Neves
- Womens 200m Individual Medley - Harriet Morgan
- Womens 400m Freestyle - C. Hudson, Sam Herridge, Kristina Neves
- Womens 400m Individual Medley - Sam Herridge
Team event Gold Medals in the Island Games include:
- Men's 4 x 50m Medley Relay 2011
- Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay 2009 & 2011
- Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay 2009
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Famous quotes containing the word swimming:
“Loosed betwixt eye and lid, the swimming beams
Of memory, blind school of cuttlefish,
Rise to the air, plunge to the cold streams....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Mead had studied for the ministry, but had lost his faith and took great delight in blasphemy. Capt. Charles H. Frady, pioneer missionary, held a meeting here and brought Mead back into the fold. He then became so devout that, one Sunday, when he happened upon a swimming party, he shot at the people in the river, and threatened to kill anyone he again caught desecrating the Sabbath.”
—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The swimming hole is still in use. It has the same mudbank. It is still impossible to dress without carrying mud home in one’s inner garments. As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole. But I doubt if the decrease in mother’s grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting muddy.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)