Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
At the turn of January/February, Rebekka Fuglø and Marnar Djurhuus were with FÍF’s talent squad at the big indoor meet Pallas-Spelen in Malmö. Both brought medals home. Rebekka won gold over 1,500 metres and silver over 800 metres, while Marnar won silver over 1,500 metres. Now Treysti is sending the two of them, together with their coach Guttormur Sørensen, to Denmark to compete in the Danish Youth Championships. There is only one athletics hall in Denmark, in Skive, and that is where the Faroese runners will try to win honour and glory for the Faroe Islands.
Their schedule on Saturday 5 March:
- 14:30 Marnar Djurhuus, Boys 17, 3,000 metres
- 18:40 Rebekka Fuglø, Girls 19, 800 metres
Schedule on Sunday:
- 14:50 Marnar Djurhuus, Boys 16–17, 1,500 metres
- 15:05 Rebekka Fuglø, Girls 18–19, 1,500 metres
It will be exciting to follow them. Rebekka has really come into her own this winter and has already set personal bests over both 1,500 and 800 m, the latter also being a Faroese indoor record. Judging by the rankings, there are also good hopes of medals, and it would be no surprise if she sets her sights on a Danish title. Rebekka has stood on the podium at Danish championships several times before, but never on the top step. Perhaps, and hopefully, this will be the time!
Here Rebekka wins Runt Agnið 2010. She is also number 1 in the overall standings for women and junior women in the Winter Series
Marnar, who can still be called fairly new at this level, is going to his third Danish Championships. But he already won his first Danish title last summer, when he won the 3,000 metres fairly comfortably. Now, however, he has moved up an age group, where there are several strong runners who intend to give Marnar a tough race. So if Marnar is to get a medal round his neck, he will have to be at his sharpest. It is probably over 3,000 metres that he has the best chance of a good placing, and it will also be exciting to see whether he can get under 9:00 minutes! We should not forget either that Marnar is running for a place at the Island Games, and to get it he will probably need to improve his 1,500 metres time by a few seconds. The A standard over 1,500 metres is 4:09 min. In Malmö he ran 4:16 min. Rebekka ran well inside the qualifying times over both 800 and 1,500 metres in Malmö.
Good luck to you both – go for it!
Here Marnar comes storming over the line as the winner, in a record time, at Runt Agnið 2010. In the Winter Series he has so far won clearly every time.
