Overview
- Nowacki won the men's 200m breaststroke in 2:07.87 on Tuesday, leading from the start and finishing ahead of Canada's Oliver Dawson and Australia's Zac Stubblety-Cook.
- He added the 200m gold to the 100m silver he won earlier in the Games, a race in which he finished ahead of mentor and former Olympic champion Adam Ramsay-Peaty, and he placed fifth in the 50m final.
- Nowacki's medals make him the most decorated Commonwealth athlete in Jersey history and deliver the island's first Commonwealth pool gold and first overall gold since 1990.
- Coaches and Ramsay-Peaty have praised his technique, tactical maturity and power-to-weight profile as reasons for his rapid rise from world junior titles in 2025 to senior success in 2026.
- Nowacki plans to move to Loughborough to join a senior training group and is targeting the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, a shift that could boost Jersey sport and reshape Britain’s depth in breaststroke.