Island Games 2015: Guernsey swim team headed by Miles Munro

Miles Munro
Miles Munro won gold for Great Britain in the 4x100m at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing last year

Olympic Youth Games gold medallist Miles Munro heads an 18-strong Guernsey swim team for the 2015 Island Games.external-link

Munro, 18, who also won is one of 10 men in the squad, all of whom have swum at previous Island Games.

Half of the women swimmers going to Jersey in the summer will experience the event for the first time.

Enya Rabey, Sophie de la Mare, Hannah Rosumek and Annabelle Goubert will all make their Island Games debuts.

Seven of the squad - Munro, Ben Lowndes, Tom Hollingsworth, Luke Belton, James Jurkiewicz, Oliver Nightingale and Courtney Butcher - also swam for Guernsey at last summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Guernsey won three gold medals, all in men's relays, at the last Island Games in Bermuda.

Guernsey swimming team for 2015 Island Games:

Men: Ben Lowndes, Tom Hollingsworth, Luke Belton, James Jurkiewicz, Joshua Lewis, Miles Munro, Oliver Nightingale, William Mansell, Matt Girard, Luke Winberg.

Women: Courtney Butcher, Annalise Munro, Victoria Parfit, Robyn Le Friec, Enya Rabey, Sophie de la Mare, Hannah Rosumek, Annabelle Goubert.

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