Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
Yesterday Bjørk Herup Olsen lost the Faroese record in the 800 m. And although you are always happy when your teammates do well, it can be a little disheartening to be pushed down to second place. There is not much else to do about it than to let your legs do the talking and get back on the horse! And that is what Bjørk did today.
A more determined Bjørk showed that she wanted to stay with the leaders for as long as possible. The pace on the first lap suited Bjørk’s plan very well, but the pace dropped a little over the next 800 metres. So with 300 metres to go, the prospects of a new Faroese record were not particularly good. But over the last 300 metres Bjørk really found wind beneath her wings, and with just 100 metres remaining she had run her way all the way up to 3rd place. In the last 100 metres, however, two very strong sprinters passed Bjørk, who therefore finished in 5th place in a time of 4:54.19, and this was enough for a new Faroese record for women. The old record of 4:54.52 was held by Bjørk herself.
Bjørk squeezes out her last ounce of strength on her way to a new Faroese record in the 1,500 m
