Isle of Man athletics squad’s men’s captain Alan Corlett led by example at the newly built Lathbury Sports Complex on Sunday evening.

The Ramsey runner continued the Manx team’s impressive record in the men’s 10,000 metre race when he stopped the clock at 32 minutes 6.26 seconds to pip Gotland duo Daniel Antonsson and Fred Gronwall to the line by nine seconds.

The Manx Harrier’s victory ensures the island maintain a strong record in the event having won three of the last four with previous gold medals going the way of Corlett’s training partner Ollie Lockley in 2017 and Kevin Loundes in the Bermuda games of 2013.

It was Corlett’s second gold at an Island Games following his steeplechase victory six years ago.

Earlier on Sunday, two of the team’s jumpers picked up the athletics contingents’ first two medals.

Bethan Pilley landed a fifth Island Games medal when she recorded a personal best of 5.79 metres to secure bronze behind the huge jump of 6.19 metres from gold medallist Kärt Õunapuu.

Because of the following wind of 3.7 metres per second, the Saaremaa athletes’s jump cannot be ratified as an Island Games record but will be noted as a Championship Best Performance.

Gotland’s Moa Orevik finished with silver (5.90m), while Pilley’s fellow Manxie and Games debutante Aimee Cringle jumped a PB of 5.72m, only seven centimeters behind her team-mate, to secure fourth.

Sadly like Õunapuu, both Manx jumpers’ efforts won’t be able to be ratified as new PBs with the following wind over the legal limits.

Another bronze followed in the men’s high jump as 16-year-old James Margrave also produced a PB of 1.99m.

The teenager’s Isle of Man team-mate Daniel Stewart-Clague was seventh with a best of 1.85m.