FORMER British number one table tennis player, Carl Prean, inspired the Isle of Wight to a golden day at the NatWest Island Games o the Isle of Man.

Former Olympian Prean collected three gold medals, as the Isle of Wight boosted their gold haul to nine, from an overnight collection of four.

The 33-year-old from Ryde won the singles title without dropping a game. He saw off his opponent, Mikael Svensson from Gotland, 21-6, 21-12 in the final.

Prean then teamed up with 21-year-old Daniel Burns to lift the doubles title, again defeating opponents from Gotland.

The experienced Prean had already won a team gold medal the previous day as part of the Isle of Wight squad, but he completed an individual hat-trick by joining forces with Lucy Pointer to be crowned mixed doubles champions, defeating a Guernsey pairing. Pointer, just 16, also won the women's singles title at the National Sports Centre by seeing off Annika Ahlgren from Gotland 21-7, 21-15 in the final.

The Isle of Wight ended day six of these ninth Island Games lying in fifth place in the medals table behind leaders Jersey with an impressive haul of nine gold, seven silver and 14 bronze medals.

Swimming has been the island's most successful sport, and that was boosted yesterday when Elizabeth Kreuz continued her impressive string of performances with second place in the 100m backstroke.

The 16-year-old, winner already of two gold medals, clocked a time of 1min 5.01sec, to finish behind winner Shauna Powell from the Cayman Islands who set a Games' record of 1:04.02.

To complete a good day in the pool, the Isle of Wight's mixed 8x50m freestyle relay squad, and women's 4x100m medley quartet claimed bronze, while Kreuz also weighed in with a bronze in the 50m backstroke in 31.05sec.

Trevor Scovell, 44, collected the Isle of Wight's first medal of the Games in sailing with silver in the Radial class behind Guernsey's Michael Henning.

And Bryony Frost, 17, bagged her second silver medal on the athletics track with the runners-up berth in the 1500m with a time of 4min 48.02, just two seconds adrift of home runner, Jackie Ashman.