Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
Recently, the older generation in athletics has really made its mark. Sam Vang and Rigmor N. Arge won Top Run, Rigmor and Hallur Holm won Tórshavn Maraton, and Guttorm Sørensen and Borgarhjørt Holm became Danish veterans’ champions, where Borgar Biskopstø and Evaldi við Garð also won medals. Now Heri Ziska has won medals at an international competition in Italy.
The competition is called the European Masters Games and was held in Lignano, Italy. You could perhaps say that it was a European Olympics for veterans. The competition was held under the Olympic flag, so Heri had to represent Denmark. Athletes competed in around 20 different sports, and as always at major multi-sport events, athletics is among the largest sports.
Heri Ziska, pictured here at FM ’11, achieved excellent results in Lignano, Italy.
As usual, Heri competed in the hammer and the discus. The discus was on the programme on Wednesday evening, and Heri won silver, just one centimetre off gold. His longest throw was 41.39 metres. Yesterday evening it was the turn of the hammer. Although he was quite a way behind the winner, Heri again managed to win the silver medal, a little over a metre ahead of number 3.
FÍF warmly congratulates Heri on his results!
There is more to read about Heri Ziska’s competitions on Hvirlan’s website. The links are here:
