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Filip Nowacki has reached his seocnd final at Glasgow 2026 [Getty Images]
Jersey's silver-medal-winning swimmer Filip Nowacki has reached his second final at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The 18-year-old, who came second in the 100m breaststroke on Saturday to win Jersey's first medal in 36 years, qualified sixth fastest for the 50m breaststroke final.
He was third in his semi-final in a time of 27.22 seconds behind Australia's 100m breaststroke gold medallist Sam Williamson and South Africa's Chris Smith.
The 50m breaststroke is Nowacki's weakest event, although he is the world junior champion at both 100m and 200m breaststroke and the fastest-ranked Commonwealth swimmer over 200m.
Earlier in the day Nowacki had progressed to the semi-finals after being edged out by former Olympic champion Adam Ramsay-Peaty by 0.02 seconds in his heat.
"The 50 is always tight, especially given my size," Nowacki told BBC Jersey.
"I've said before, I've always struggled to make it back in the afternoons because in the morning I'm so relaxed and the race just flows.
"Then I get back in the evening and I tense up too much and I want it too much, so I'm very pleased to make it back for the final."
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Isaac Thompson is through to his first major final [Reuters]
Elsewhere Isaac Thompson qualified for the final of the men's 200m backstroke.
The 18-year-old was eighth-fastest as he finished in a time of 2:03.66 to make his first-ever major championships final.
Team-mate Sam Sterry finished in 10th place while Oscar Dodds was 12th.
Dodds then teamed up with his brother Isaac, Sterry and Matthew Deffains in the 4x200m freestyle relay and make the final.
Their time of 7:40.99 broke the Jersey record as they qualified in eighth place.
Megan Hansford finished 42nd in the women's 100m freestyle while Clara Ginnis was third in her 1500m freestyle heat in 17:36.94, beating team-mate Hannah Sterry by just under five seconds
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Taylor Greechan has won just one match in his first Commonwealth Games [Getty Images]
Meanwhile Taylor Greechan's hopes of progressing in the men's singles bowls are over after he lost a third match out of four.
The islander lost on a tie-break to Namibia's Waylon Wentzel on Sunday morning.
Greechan had won the first set 8-3, but was comprehensively beaten 9-2 in the second set before losing a deciding tie-breaker 1-0.
He is sixth in his group as he prepares to face Guernsey's former World Indoor champion Jason Greenslade and Australia's unbeaten group leader Aaron Wilson on Monday.
However, women's pair Fiona Archibald and Sara Douglas got a second victory at the Commonwealth Games as they convincingly beat the Cook Islands.
The Jersey duo were never behind in the game as they took the first set 7-2 before an impressive 12-1 victory in the second set - six shots in the third end helped seal the win.
They are fourth in their pool and unable to make the knockout stages ahead of their final game against winless Falkland Islands on Monday.
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