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On Saturday and Sunday, Bragdið and Treysti took part in the Danish Indoor Championships for young athletes, held in Skive, home to Denmark’s only indoor hall. Six Bragdið members and four from Treysti travelled down to compete. They were also joined by Rói Holgarsson, who came over from Copenhagen.
Rói raced only on Sunday, when the 60 m was on the programme. The preliminary round went as it should. Rói won his heat and reached the final with 7.34 sec. In the final he ran a little faster, but fell just short of a medal. With 7.28 sec Rói finished in 4th place, 5/100 sec. off his own Faroese record.
Two girls from Bragdið were in Skive. Unfortunately for Sára Debesardóttir, an old hip injury flared up during her warm-up for the 200 metres. This was judged serious enough that Sára did not compete in any event at all that weekend. So Katarina Høj was the only Bragdið girl competing. First came the 200 m. Her time was 29.16 sec, slightly slower than in Iceland in January. Later on Saturday the 800 m was on the programme. Here Katarina managed to run a fine personal best of 2:28.69. This was good enough for 6th place. On Sunday Katarina competed in the 1,500 m, and again she managed to set a new personal best, 5:06.06, which earned her 8th place. Katarina runs in the girls 14-15 category, where she is in the younger age year.
Rebekka Fuglø has hardly ever been to a Danish Championships without bringing home a medal. And this time was no exception. This time it was a little easier than usual, though, as in the 800 metres she had only one rival, and in the 1,500 metres she was completely on her own. Even so, Rebekka ran close to her very best. In the 800 metres she won comfortably in 2:21.80 min. In the 1,500 metres her time was also very good. 4:48.57 suggests that Rebekka will be ready when the Island Games begin.
Winter Series long-distance race at Fossanes or Danish middle-distance championships in Skive. Rebekka only wants gold!
14-year-old Gunnar Sivertsen from Treysti was competing at the Danish Championships for the first time. He took part in the 1,500 m and 3,000 m for boys 14-15. In both events he achieved the B standard for the talent group. His time in the 1,500 m was 4:55.35 min and in the 3,000 m 10:48.84.
Teitur Bjarnastein and Steingrímur Hallsson from Bragdið competed in the B16-17 category, where both are in the younger age year. Both ran to their best and set two personal bests each. Teitur is really becoming one of our very best middle-distance runners, even though he has not yet turned 16. With a time of 2:03.07 in the 800 metres he finished 4th, and is not far at all from the Island Games standard of 2:00.80. Steingrímur took three seconds off his best time, running 2:11.21 min. The 400 m also went well for them. Teitur went under 55 sec. for the first time and finished 5th with 54.73 sec, while Steingrímur was 9th with 57.43 sec. For Teitur this meant 2xA standards and for Steingrímur a B standard in the 800 m.
Then there were the juniors. The Treysti boys Marnar Djurhuus and Einar Gregersen ran the 1,500 m and 3,000 m, while the Bragdið boys Rúni Seloy and Regin Joensen ran the 400 m and 800 m. All of this was in the 18-19 category, where Rúni is among the older ones and the other three among the younger. After Marnar’s outstanding results in Iceland, hopes were high of a medal. In the 3,000 metres there were two very fast runners whom Marnar had to let go, but in the battle for third place he was the strongest. But something went wrong with Marnar’s lap counting, as he still had a lap to go when he thought he had reached the finish. This allowed one runner to catch him, and although Marnar set off again and regained third place, it lasted only a moment. His strength was gone and Marnar had to settle for 4th place in 9:14.71 min – more than 20 sec. slower than in Iceland. Einar ran a good race and set a personal best of 9:45.98.
On Sunday the two of them ran the 1,500 m. Here things went better for Marnar. Although he was six seconds off his own Faroese record, he managed to win the bronze medal in 4:12.74. Just 10 seconds behind came a strong-running Einar in 8th place, setting a fine personal best of 4:23.33 min.
The 800 m was on Saturday, with Regin and Rúni taking part. Neither of them managed to run to their best. With 1:59.99 Rúni got just under 2 minutes, which was good enough for 6th place. Regin was 12th in 2:05.25. In the 400 metres Rúni ran 53.53 sec and finished 6th, while Regin was 12th with 55.25 sec.
The Faroese athletes therefore come home with two gold medals and one bronze, which must be called a very good performance. On top of that there are no fewer than ten personal bests from the 20 starts to celebrate. FÍF congratulates you all on the good results.
