Nowacki heads Jersey's 2026 Commonwealth Games team

World junior breaststroke champion Filip Nowacki leads a 21-strong Jersey squad for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Nowacki, 18, who won the British 200m breaststroke title earlier this year to add to his 100m and 200m global youth titles, is aiming to become Jersey's first medallist since 1990.

This month, the Team GB swimmer became the first British swimmer to go under a minute for 100m at all four strokes.

Jersey have not reached the podium at the Commonwealth Games since Colin Mallett won fullbore shooting gold in Auckland and teamed up with his father Cliff to win pairs bronze 36 years ago.

Nowacki is part of a nine-strong swimming team, with the island's men qualifying for the 4x100m medley relay for the first time.

Jersey's five-strong athletics team is the largest the island has ever sent to a Commonwealth Games.

Jersey-born New Zealand-based sprinter Zach Saunders competes at his second Commonwealth Games and joins island 100m record holder Steve Mackay and Jamie Oldham to give them three sprinters for the first time.

Meanwhile, Evan Campbell and Lucy Woodward will be the first islanders to compete in multi-sport events in the decathlon and heptathlon respectively.

Steven Rabet is the first judoka to represent Jersey since Chay Pike in 1990.

The Scot - who qualifies via his Jersey-born grandparents - competed at the -66kg class at the Junior European Cup in Lithuania last month and is ranked fourth in the British Under-20 rankings.

Bowler Malcolm de Sousa will represent the island in his fifth Commonwealth Games having made his debut for Jersey in 2010 in Delhi.

The Games in Glasgow run from 23 July to 2 August.

"For most sports it's the highest event they can compete under the Jersey flag," chef de mission Jean Cross told BBC Radio jersey

"We're not an Olympic nation, so athletes will then get taken up by Team GB, so it is the last event at that level that they can compete for Jersey.

"It's something that our athletes take very seriously and aspire to."

Team Jersey:

Athletics: Evan Campbell, Steven Mackay, Jamie Oldham, Zach Saunders, Lucy Woodward.

Bowls: Fiona Archibald, Sara Douglas, Abbey Andrieux, Malcolm De Sousa, Ross Davis, Taylor Greechan.

Judo: Steven Rabet.

Swimming: Matthew Deffains, Isaac Dodds, Oscar Dodds, Megan Hansford, Filip Nowacki, Hannah Sterry, Sam Sterry, Isaac Thompson, Clara Ginnis.