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15 July 2013 21:29

Andrea Strachan with her gold medal from the 50m breaststroke and Felix Gifford with his gold from the 200m butterfly and silver from the 200m individual medley - Photo: Swimming Team.

SHETLAND swimmers Felix Gifford and Andrea Strachan have won the islands first gold medals in Bermuda.

Gifford won the 200 metre butterfly in a time of just over two minutes and two seconds, less than half a second of second placed Josep Mercadel Macaro of Menorca.

Strachan came first in the 50 metres breast stroke with a time of 31.36 seconds, a island games record.

Gifford followed his success by winning silver in the men’s 200m individual medley with a time of two minutes and six seconds.

Meanwhile Joan Smith was beaten 3 – 0 by Jersey’s Sarah Taylor in the women’s single squash final to win a silver medal for Shetland.

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