Judo’s return to the Island Games has been heralded as “amazing news” for the sport in Guernsey.

Judo is one of seven sports to be added to the programme in the Faroe Islands in 2027.

Also being added are basketball, shooting, table tennis, tennis, volleyball and beach volleyball after their omission in Orkney this summer.

But golf, sailing, lawn bowls and squash have all been omitted from the programme.

For judo it is the sport’s first inclusion at an Island Games since Gibraltar in 2019, when Guernsey’s five-strong side won a silver and two bronze medals.

“It’s amazing news for the sport and for judo on Guernsey in itself,” Guernsey Judo Club’s Eddie Mann said.

“We had a sort of an idea maybe six months ago that it was possibly going to be in there, so we have initial discussions about who potentially could go.”

He added to BBC Radio Guernsey: “It’ll be a younger team that go across in 2027 compared to who went to Gibraltar.

“They’ll be in their late teens a lot of them, early 20s, and they’ve got competitions ongoing throughout the year and going into the next couple of years.”