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The oldest Faroese women’s record, set at the Island Games in Åland in 1991, was broken on Wednesday evening in round 3 of the Grand Prix for children and young people at Svangaskarð.
It happened when 14-year-old Rebekka Fuglø of Treysti won the 400 m in a close race with Vár Gregersen of Frælsi. The new 400 m record now stands at 64.3 seconds. Vár also finished faster than the old record, running the distance in 65.6 seconds. Superb running from both of them!
The old record, set by Margreth Augustinusen from Vágur at the Island Games in Mariehamn, Åland, on 25 June 1991, was 68.17 seconds. This means the record was set two years before Rebekka Fuglø was born.
Bjørk Herup Olsen of Bragdið ran the 400 m in 67.1 seconds at Svangaskarð in 2005, but that was in a mixed race, i.e. one in which both men and women take part, so it is not recognised as a record.
