Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
This coming weekend the Danish Youth Championships (DM-U) will be held in Glostrup. The plan was for the competition to take place in Ballerup, but because the major renovation of the track was not finished in good enough time, the organisers have had to move the event to Glostrup.
5 Faroese athletes will be taking part, and the hopes of medals are good. 15-year-old Dánjal Jákup Niclasen from Bragdið will run the 100 m and 300 m. In the 100 metres he has the 8th best entry time, and his goal is to reach the final and also to run under 12 seconds. He is not far off the best, as the fastest has 11.71 as his season’s best. Things look even better for Dánjal Jákup in the 300 m, where he has the best entry time of all – 38.03 sec, which is also the season’s best in Denmark. But it will not be easy all the same, as his rivals are right on his heels, and the seven best are under 39 sec!
It is not yet one year since Marnar Djurhuus from Morskranes became a runner. But that is what he is today, and a proper one at that! The 15-year-old Treysti boy will run the 1,500 m and 3,000 m. In the 1,500 metres he has an entry time of 4:26, which is 5 sec slower than the Danish star runner Lous Krogsbøl, who will also run the 300 and 800 m. At the last round of the Grand Prix, however, Marnar ran the distance in 4:19, so it should be exciting, although it is quite possible that Louis can run even faster. In the 3,000 metres the best entry time is 9:25 min. Marnar is at the bottom of the list here without an entry time. But this writer believes that Marnar may well be able to keep up with, and perhaps even pull away from, the very best over this distance. He proved that at VU-Spelen, where he ran 2,000 metres in 5:49 min.!!
The hopes for Rúni Seloy are always high, and they are this time too. Rúni, who this year has tried his hand a lot at the sprint distances, is going to the Danish Youth Championships to compete once again over the middle distances, 800 m and 1,500 m. Last year Rúni won the Danish title in both these events in Boys 14-15. Now he will run in the Boys 16-17 group, and several of his rivals have improved a great deal over the past year. Rúni has not yet set a personal best in his favourite event, the 800 m, and it almost looks as though he will have to run to his best and perhaps a bit more to bring home the gold. The same will apply in the 1,500 metres, although Rúni did set a personal best of 4:18 min. at the last Grand Prix. But if we know the Bragdið lad right, he will come home with something glittering around his neck!
Jan Elmar Sørensen, who now lives in Vejle, will compete in Boys 18-19. Here he will run the 3,000 m steeplechase. Far from all runners dare to jump over the barriers, and so there are often few runners in this event. If Jan Elmar’s training has gone well recently, there should be a chance of a medal for him.
The only girl this time is Rebekka Fuglø from Treysti. She will compete in Girls 16-17 and takes part in the 400 m and 800 m. Rebekka is perhaps the one who will find it hardest to win a medal, but she has set herself the goal of getting right down towards her own Faroese record in the 400 metres, and down towards the Island Games qualification standard in the 800 metres.
In any case it looks exciting, and it would also be fantastic if they came home with 5 medals. FÍF wishes everyone the best of luck. We will follow along here on the website and will write when the competitions are over!
