Swimmer Filip Nowacki has won Jersey’s first Commonwealth Games medal in 36 years after taking silver in the 100m breaststroke.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old, who is the world junior 100m and 200m breaststroke champion, finished second behind Australia’s Sam Williamson by 0.17 seconds with world record-holder Adam Ramsay-Peaty 0.31 seconds behind him in third.<\/p>\n
Nowacki was fourth going into the turn at 50m but put in a superb second 50m leg to overtake Ramsay-Peaty and the early leader South Africa’s Michael Houlie.<\/p>\n
“I’m really happy with that swim,” Nowacki told BBC Jersey.<\/p>\n
“It was just a touch outside my personal best, but it’s a true privilege racing Adam, the Aussies and the very best in the world in a senior environment.”<\/p>\n
The teenager has more chances for medals later in the week as he aims to become the most decorated Jersey athlete at the Commonwealth Games – the highest level islanders can compete at under their own flag.<\/p>\n
He will race against mentor and world record-holder Ramsay-Peaty in the 50m breaststroke which starts on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Nowacki’s best chance of winning gold looks to be in the 200m breaststroke which begins on Tuesday – he is the reigning British champion and is the fastest qualifier for the event. <\/p>\n
“It gives me confidence going forwards,” he added.<\/p>\n
“But it’s not given that my 200’s going to be great, so it’s just about focusing in on the 200 now and the 50 tomorrow.<\/p>\n
“I love getting my hand on the wall and top three bringing back some silverware and I’m very happy with that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swimmer Filip Nowacki has won Jersey’s first Commonwealth Games medal in 36 years after taking silver in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-544104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}