Faroese Championships, Day 1 – Heri Ziska bound for the Island Games

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The first day of the senior Faroese Championships was today, and one of the most satisfied athletes was probably the veteran Heri Ziska, who threw so well that he beat the Island Games qualification standard in the discus in two rounds. The weather was perhaps a little uncertain. It was windy and there was also some drizzle. To get the long throws with the discus it is absolutely essential that it is dry, and fortunately it cleared up shortly before the competition began. The wind was almost straight against the throwers, but for a technically skilled thrower like Heri this is only an advantage. As mentioned, he managed no fewer than two times to get the discus flying on the wind. In his second attempt he threw 43.22 metres, two centimetres beyond the Island Games standard. And in the very next attempt he showed that this had been no fluke, as the discus then flew out to 43.43 metres. Heri has always had a monopoly on the Faroese title in the discus. And to a large extent he has in the hammer too, where once again today he put the youngsters in their place.

With excellent technique, Heri Ziska once again managed to qualify for the Island Games.

Another athlete who must be extremely pleased with the first day of the championships is 17-year-old Regin Joensen from Bragdið, who is the new Faroese champion at both 400 and 800 metres. Both were fairly comfortable wins. Regin is one of several who are close to a place in the Island Games team. Not unexpectedly, Bjørk Herup Olsen also won two Faroese titles. The first came when she ran the 800 metres on her own, and the second in the 5,000 metres.

Regin Joensen won two gold medals today. Here he is in second place behind Teitur Bjarnastein and ahead of Rúni Seloy and Regin Thomsen as they start the second lap of the 800 metres.

She has countless wins to her name, and today Bjørk Herup Olsen added two more Faroese titles.

15-year-old Edna Maria Debes also won two golds. First she won the long jump, and a little later she won the 100 metres final, so for the coming year she can call herself the fastest woman in the Faroe Islands with a clear conscience. So can Rói Holgarsson from Bragdið. That is, call himself the fastest man in the Faroe Islands! For the third year in a row he won the Faroese title at 100 metres. Everything was set for a very exciting 100 metres, as no fewer than five Hvirlan sprinters have been under 12 seconds this year. But when it came to it, Rói Holgarsson brushed all opposition aside and won comfortably in his best time ever, 11.35 seconds. The tailwind, however, was well above the permitted limit.

Edna Maria Debes in mid-air. She became Faroese champion in the 100 metres and the long jump.

Rói Holgarsson left no doubt as to who is the fastest Faroese. The gun has barely fired before he surges to the front.

Once again this year, Daniel Djurhuus Rein became Faroese champion in the long jump.

The men’s 5,000 metres turned into a tactical and stop-start race, which ended in a duel between Henry Olsen and Sam Vang from Bragdið. At times Sam looked a little strained, but with just 300 metres to go he switched on the turbo and went past Henry, who nevertheless secured a safe silver. In the battle for third place, Borgar Biskopstø managed to hold off the young Einar Gregersen and the veteran Regin Zachariassen.

Sam Vang leading in the 5,000 metres. He was also in front at the finish and so won the Faroese title.

If we look in the athletics record books, we see that Ingibjørg Poulsen holds the records in the shot put and the discus. She has neither competed nor trained in recent years, but had nevertheless entered the championships. Although she naturally did not throw as far as before, she managed to win the Faroese title in the discus. In the hammer, however, she had to give way to the record holder Randi Kúrberg.

Ingibjørg Poulsen has not forgotten how to throw the discus. She became Faroese champion in the discus.

Randi Kúrberg added yet another comfortable Faroese title in the hammer to her many previous ones.

Participation in the women’s running events was rather thin today, and that was also the case in the 400 metres, where Hildur Poulsen from Bragdið won her first Faroese title ahead of Anita Gregersen, who appeared to be saving herself for the 100 metres final.

Hildur Poulsen from Bragdið won the 400 metres. Here she thanks Anita Gregersen for the race.

Finally came the 4×100 metres relay. There was only one team in the women’s race, made up of young Bragdið girls. They were very eager. So eager that at one of the changeovers they were too late in passing on the baton. The officials therefore had no choice but to disqualify the team. As a result no Faroese champions were found, and the medals will be discarded and melted down in the furnace at Hjalli.

In the men’s race, Hvirlan had entered two teams. Team 1 was made up of the four from the 100 metres final and therefore had to be considered favourites. Their team 2 was made up of throwers who also wanted to test their speed. Bragdið also had a team that was reasonably strong on paper, with the Faroese champion leading off, and it was he who got a flying start over the first 100 metres.

It’s not as easy as it looks. Here Rúni Jacobsen and Trygvi Laksafoss struggle with the baton. Tórur is also ready for Hvirlan 2.

That training is needed to get a good result in the relay was plain for all to see. The changeovers were so-so. In several cases runners set off too early and then had to slow down so as not to run past the changeover zone. Bragdið held the lead until the last changeover, but here again the Bragdið runner set off too early. He headed down towards the finish with the Hvirlan runner right behind him. He crossed the line first, but the changeover had been illegal, and Bragdið were disqualified. Hvirlan 1 thus became Faroese champions and Hvirlan 2 won silver.

Hvirlan 1 and Hvirlan 2 – gold and silver in the 4×100 m. Team 1 consisted of Trygvi Laksafoss, Rúni Jacobsen, Tummas Nap. Arge and Birgir Hansen.

The competition continues tomorrow from 13:00. The events will be the high jump, triple jump, javelin, shot put, 200 m, 1,500 m, 100/110 m hurdles, 3,000 m steeplechase and 4×400 metres relay.

In the ’80s you often heard the threat that “the reds are coming”. Well, now they have come. At any rate, the reds were very much in evidence today.

 

Results:

MEN 400M HURDLES FINAL			SATURDAY	13:00
No.	Time			Wind
	DNS	Daniel	Djurhuus	1990	BRAGDIÐ
	DNS	Regin	Joensen	1995	BRAGDIÐ
MEN/WOMEN DISCUS FINAL			SATURDAY	13:00
No.	Result					1	2	3	4	5	6
1	43.43	Heri	Ziska	1967	HVIRLAN	39.90	43.22	43.43	41.83	41.44	41.85
2	30.70	Helgi	Geyti	1993	HVIRLAN	24.30	30.28	26.00	X	30.70	28.32
3	28.45	Hallur	Simonsen	1995	HVIRLAN	X	X	28.45	X	X	X
4	27.63	Rógvi	Højgaard	1983	HVIRLAN	22.07	23.53	20.70	X	23.25	27.63
5	25.57	Tróndur	Arge	1994	HVIRLAN	X	20.74	X	21.89	25.57	X
6	21.52	Steinolvur	Geyti	1994	HVIRLAN	21.52	20.55	X	X	X	19.67
1	19.09	Ingibjørg	Poulsen	1974	BRAGDIÐ	16.09	17.03	15.70	18.34	19.09	X
2	14.36	Elsa	Berg	1996	BRAGDIÐ	14.36	11.65	11.52	11.55	13.38	13.40
	DNS	Sólja Fríða	Jóanisdóttir	1981	HVIRLAN
	DNS	Bjørk Reynagarð	Svabo	1996	HVIRLAN
WOMEN 800M FINAL			SATURDAY	13:10
No.	Time
1	2:42.5	Bjørk Herup	Olsen	1991	BRAGDIÐ
	DNS	Rannvá	Kjartansdóttir Strøm	1988	BRAGDIÐ
MEN 800M FINAL			SATURDAY	13:20
No.	Time
1	2:10.2	Regin	Joensen	1995	BRAGDIÐ
2	2:12.1	Teitur	Bjarnastein	1997	BRAGDIÐ
3	2:12.9	Rúni	Seloy	1994	BRAGDIÐ
4	2:15.2	Regin	Thomsen	1976	BRAGDIÐ
MEN 100M HEATS			SATURDAY	13:30
No.	Time	Heat 1		Wind	4.2
1	11.67	Rúni	Jacobsen	1994	HVIRLAN
2	11.85	Trygvi Zachariassen	Laksáfoss	1994	HVIRLAN
3	11.86	Tummas N.	Arge	1995	HVIRLAN
4	12.03	Daniel	Djurhuus	1990	BRAGDIÐ
MEN 100M HEATS			SATURDAY	13:35
No.	Time	Heat 2		Wind	3.7
1	11.47	Rói	Holgarsson	1992	BRAGDIÐ
2	12.21	Birgir	Hansen	1990	HVIRLAN
3	12.73	Heini	Høgnason	1995	BRAGDIÐ
4	13.27	Kristian Martin	Garðalíð	1990	HVIRLAN
WOMEN 5,000M FINAL			SATURDAY	13:50
No.	Time
1	20:08.60	Bjørk Herup	Olsen	1991	BRAGDIÐ
2	20:22.57	Borgarhjørt	Holm	1966	BRAGDIÐ
MEN/WOMEN LONG JUMP FINAL			SATURDAY	13:50
No.	RESULT					1	2	3	4	5	6
1	3.99	Edna Maria	Debes	1997	HVIRLAN	3.85(-3.7)	3.99(-3.0)	3.87(-3.2)	3.75(-4.2)	3.90(-4.6)	3.97(-3.7)
2	3.62	Anita	Gregersen	1995	TREYSTI	3.62(-3.2)	3.48(-4.2)	3.52(-4.6)	3.58(-5.8)	3.55(-3.8)	3.58(-4.1)
	DNS	Rannvá	Kjartansdóttir Strøm	1988	BRAGDIÐ
1	5.74	Daniel	Djurhuus	1990	BRAGDIÐ	5.52(-4.7)	5.50(-4.0)	5.74(-4.9)	5.60(-4.0)	–	5.44(-4.3)
2	5.25	Trygvi Zachariassen	Laksáfoss	1994	HVIRLAN	5.22(-3.4)	5.25(-4.7)	5.21(-4.8)	4.96(-4.0)	5.22(-4.9)	–
3	4.56	Birgir	Hansen	1990	HVIRLAN	4.38(-4.1)	4.46(-3.5)	4.34(-4.2)	4.56(-3.6)	4.45(-4.6)	4.47(-3.5)
4	4.54	Helgi	Geyti	1993	HVIRLAN	4.46(-3.4)	–	4.54(-2.9)	4.40(-4.6)	–	–
5	4.14	Kristian Martin	Garðalíð	1990	HVIRLAN	4.14(-4.8)	3.96(-3.6)	–	3.91(-4.5)	3.74(-4.4)	3.25(-5.0)
	DNS	Regin	Joensen	1995	BRAGDIÐ
MEN 400M FINAL			SATURDAY	14:25
No.	Time
1	56.66	Regin	Joensen	1995	BRAGDIÐ
2	59.07	Heini	Høgnason	1995	BRAGDIÐ
3	60.83	Teitur	Bjarnastein	1997	BRAGDIÐ
4	64.01	Mathias	Janussen	1997
	DNS	Daniel	Djurhuus	1990	BRAGDIÐ
	DNS	Rúni	Seloy	1994	BRAGDIÐ
WOMEN 400M FINAL			SATURDAY	14:35
No.	Time
1	1:16.34	Hildur	Poulsen	1997	BRAGDIÐ
2	1:50.59	Anita	Gregersen	1995	TREYSTI
	DNS	Rannvá	Kjartansdóttir Strøm	1988	BRAGDIÐ
MEN 5,000M FINAL			SATURDAY	14:55
No.	Time
1	17:49.46	Sam	Vang	1970	BRAGDIÐ
2	17:54.49	Henry	Olsen	1964	BRAGDIÐ
3	18:21.16	Borgar	Biskopstø	1962	TREYSTI
4	18:27.49	Einar	Gregersen	1995	TREYSTI
5	18:27.59	Regin	Zachariasen	1960	BRAGDIÐ
6	22:37.41	Tummas Jákup	Thomsen	1962	TREYSTI
	DNS	Súni	Jacobsen	1967	BRAGDIÐ
	DNS	Martin	Sivertsen	1973	TREYSTI
	DNS	Robert	Vilhelmsen	1951	BRAGDIÐ
MEN/WOMEN HAMMER FINAL			SATURDAY	14:55
No.	Result					1	2	3	4	5	6
1	40.75	Heri	Ziska	1967	HVIRLAN	37.12	39.86	40.75	X	X	X
2	23.41	Helgi	Geyti	1993	HVIRLAN	21.29	23.41	23.21	X	20.01	X
3	21.81	Tróndur	Arge	1994	HVIRLAN	19.44	21.29	21.81	20.39	X	X
4	15.80	Steinolvur	Geyti	1994	HVIRLAN	X	15.8	14.59	X	X	X
	DNS	Hallur	Simonsen	1995	HVIRLAN
1	30.34	Randi	Kúrberg	1972	HVIRLAN	X	25.91	X	29.57	30.34	X
2	23.44	Ingibjørg	Poulsen	1974	BRAGDIÐ	22.91	23.44	X	22.82	22.78	X
	DNS	Sólja Fríða	Jóanisdóttir	1981	HVIRLAN
	DNS	Bjørk Reynagarð	Svabo	1996	HVIRLAN
WOMEN 100M FINAL			SATURDAY	15:30
No.	Result			WIND	4.8
1	13.81	Edna Maria	Debes	1997	HVIRLAN
2	14.31	Hildur	Poulsen	1997	BRAGDIÐ
3	15.20	Anita	Gregersen	1995	TREYSTI
	DNS	Rannvá	Kjartansdóttir Strøm	1988	BRAGDIÐ
MEN 100M FINAL			SATURDAY	15:40
No.	Time			WIND	4.3
1	11.35	Rói	Holgarsson	1992	BRAGDIÐ
2	11.59	Rúni	Jacobsen	1994	HVIRLAN
3	11.81	Tummas N.	Arge	1995	HVIRLAN
4	11.87	Trygvi Z.	Laksafoss	1994	HVIRLAN
5	12.17	Birgir	Hansen	1990	HVIRLAN
6	12.34	Daniel	Djurhuus	1990	BRAGDIÐ
WOMEN 4 X 100M FINAL			SATURDAY	15:50
No.	Time
	DSQ	Hildur	Poulsen	1997	BRAGDIÐ
	DSQ	Frida	Davidsen		BRAGDIÐ
	DSQ	Karin H.	Simonsen	1999	BRAGDIÐ
	DSQ	Katarina	Høj	1999	BRAGDIÐ
MEN 4 X 100M FINAL			SATURDAY	16:00
No.	Time
1	49.04	Trygvi Z.	Laksafoss	1994	HVIRLAN
		Rúni	Jacobsen	1994	HVIRLAN
		Tummas N.	Arge	1995	HVIRLAN
		Birgir	Hansen	1990	HVIRLAN
2	55.64	Steinolvur	Geyti	1994	HVIRLAN
		Tórur	Mortensen	1998	HVIRLAN
		Helgi	Geyti	1993	HVIRLAN
		Tróndur	Arge	1994	HVIRLAN
	DSQ	Rói	Holgarsson	1992	BRAGDIÐ
		Heini	Høgnason	1995	BRAGDIÐ
		Regin	Joensen	1995	BRAGDIÐ
		Daniel	Djurhuus	1990	BRAGDIÐ