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Many Faroese athletes heading to Stórmót IR in Reykjavík

Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.

This weekend the talent group travels to the big indoor competition Stórmót IR, held in the splendid hall in Laugardalur in Reykjavík. The competition takes place on both Saturday and Sunday, and our young athletes will run two or three different distances each. Those going are Regin Joensen, Hans Jacobsen, Fríði Hammer, Elsa Berg and Dánjal Jákup Niclasen, all from Bragdið.


The talent group photographed outside Hotel Ørkin just after arriving in Reykjavík.
From left: Hans Jacobsen, Fríði Hammer, Dánjal Jákup Niclasen, Regin Joensen, Guttorm Sørensen and Elsa Berg

Regin, Hans and Dánjal Jákup compete in the Boys 15–16 group (Sveinar 15 – 16 ára), Fríði competes in the Boys 14 group (Piltar 14 ára) and Elsa competes in the Girls 14 group (Telpur 14 ára).

Their schedule is as follows:

Saturday 23 January:
14:10 60 m Elsa Berg
14:40 60 m Fríði Hammer
15:10 60 m Dánjal Jákup Niclasen, Regin Joensen and Hans Jacobsen
15:40 800 m Dánjal Jákup Niclasen, Regin Joensen and Hans Jacobsen
16:10 800 m Elsa Berg
16:40 800 m Fríði Hammer

Sunday 24 January:
11:00 200 m Fríði Hammer
12:30 200 m Elsa Berg
13:30 400 m Dánjal Jákup Niclasen, Regin Joensen and Hans Jacobsen

Our young athletes from the talent group will not be the only Faroese in Iceland. Six runners from Treysti and 11 athletes from Hvirlan are also going to test themselves against the Icelanders. In total, 756 athletes have registered for 2,611 starts.

The group, who will stay at Hotel Ørkin, leave on Friday and return on Monday. The trip leader is Guttorm Sørensen.

You can read more about Stórmót ÍR at the link below.

http://mot.fri.is/cgi-bin/ibmot/timesedillib1315.htm

The website of Frjálsíþróttasamband Íslands is: www.fri.is

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