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Once again this year, several Faroese athletes will take part in the Danish Youth Championships, which take place in Skive next weekend. Both Bragdið and Treysti are sending their best athletes.
For Bragdið, they are Rúni Seloy, Regin Joensen, Teitur Bjarnastein, Steingrímur Hallsson, Sára Debesardóttir and Katarina Høj. For Treysti, they are Rebekka Fuglø, Marnar Djurhuus, Einar Gregersen and Gunnar Sivertsen. In addition, Rói Holgarsson, who now lives in Denmark, will also take part. The Faroese athletes are not allowed to compete for their Faroese clubs and therefore represent Danish clubs. The Treysti athletes all run for Vejle IF, while most of the Bragdið athletes run for Hvidovre AM. Rói, however, runs for Sparta, while Teitur runs for Aalborg AM. Their coaches will also be the team leaders: Jógvan Glerfoss for Bragdið and Guttorm Sørensen for Treysti.
Steingrímur and Teitur charging off in Fossanes. This time we hope they remember to turn left at the first bend 😉
All the events take place on Saturday and Sunday. Going by the entry times, there should be a fair chance of winning some medals. In some cases possibly even Danish championship gold. Rebekka has a particularly good chance in the Girls 20-22 age group. But Marnar Djurhuus also looks capable of being among the leaders, even though he is one of the younger athletes in the 18-19 age group. Rúni Seloy has brought many a Danish championship medal home to the Faroe Islands, but it has been a while since the last one. It will be exciting to see what a hungry Rúni does against the higher-ranked competitors. There will also be races for Faroese records, qualifying times for the Island Games, the elite group and the talent group, and last but not least personal bests.
Will Sára or Katarina snatch Rebekka’s Faroese record in the 200 m? Will Regin achieve the Island Games standard in the 800 m? Will Rúni improve his own Faroese record in the 800 m? Will Gunnar achieve the talent group standard in the 1500 m? And Einar? Will Rói set a new Faroese record in the 60 m? We will have the answers to these and many other questions when the competition is over. If you can’t wait until it’s all finished, you can follow along on this page, where the results will be updated as they come in: http://test.mars-net.dk/meet/ShowMeet.aspx?MeetId=e7ea2608-3eb7-490d-bb84-1e8abdbc4340
FÍF has its fingers and toes crossed and wishes all the Faroese athletes the best of luck!
