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The strong results of the young Faroese middle-distance runners have not gone unnoticed in Denmark either. All three of our Danish champions from the Danish Indoor Championships have been selected to represent Danish clubs and national teams.
On Saturday, Bjørk Herup Olsen will represent Helsingør when round 1 of the team competition in the senior Elite Division is held in Esbjerg. Here she will really get to show what she can do, because she will not only compete in three events on the same day. She will also be up against the very best Danish women. First up is the 5000 m. 3 hours later she will run the 1500 m, and a little after that she will run the 4 x 400 m relay.
We have previously written that Rúni Seloy is going to EYOT, the European Youth Olympic Trials. There he will represent Dansk Atletik Forbund as the only boy from the kingdom in the running events. He met the consistency requirement set for him at Tårnby Games, and on 19 May he travels with a small Danish group to Moscow, where the competition takes place at the famous Luzhniki Stadium on 21–23 May. There 16-year-old Rúni will face the very best 16–17-year-old 800-metre runners in Europe, with the top three earning a place at the Youth Olympics in Singapore later this summer.
The newest star in the running sky, Marnar Djurhuus from Morskranes, has also been noticed. After his gold medal in the 1500 m at the Danish Indoor Championships, he has now been invited to represent West Denmark in a competition between Nordic regions, which will be held in Sweden on 4 June. There Marnar will run the 2000 and 800 metres.
It is great that things are going so well for our young athletes, and it will be exciting to follow them in these big challenges. FÍF wishes them all the best of luck.
