Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
On Saturday and Sunday, Hvirlan organised the first combined events competitions ever held in the Faroe Islands, as an in-club competition on the Tórsbreyt track. One reason there has been no combined events competition before is no doubt that pole vault has not been possible. The people at Hvirlan solved this problem by digging a hole in the grass pitch for the pole and using the high jump mat. Far from ideal, but needs must.
Rúni Jacobsen, the first 10-event decathlon winner in the Faroe Islands.
There are a few athletes in the Faroe Islands who are quite strong across several events. There is little doubt that Øssur Debes Eiriksfoss is one of the very best, but Hallur Simonsen has also shown great all-round strength this summer. However, Øssur is not in the Faroe Islands, and Hallur only took part in a very few competitions. Instead it was Rúni Jacobsen who became the first winner of a 10-event decathlon in the Faroe Islands. Although Rúni won only two of the 10 events, his victory was fairly comfortable, and Helgi Geyti, who won five events, had to settle for 2nd place. Trygvi Laksafoss finished third.
The results from the competition can be seen here: http://www.hvirlan.fo/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/hvirlukampur-2013-MD1.pdf.
Helgi Geyti won five events, including the pole vault, where he cleared 1.90. It should be noted that this was not with a vaulting pole, but with an improvised wooden pole.
Among girls and women it was, not unexpectedly, Marita K. Petersen who performed best. When it was all added up, she had won all seven events and finished with 3,403 points. Louisa Svabo, Tinna Berg Jørgensen and Bjørk R. Svabo were fairly evenly matched in the next places. The results from the 7-event heptathlon can be seen here: http://www.hvirlan.fo/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/hvirlukampur-2013-GK.pdf
Marita Káradóttir won all the events, including with a good 200 m, where she beat Tinna B. Jørgensen.
At the time of writing, I do not know whether the results can be approved as Faroese records. No Faroese records have been registered in combined events. And whether it is to be called 7- and 10-event combined events (heptathlon and decathlon) or something else entirely, we will also have to work out. In any case, it is very pleasing that Hvirlan has got this going.
Read more about the competition and see photos from the competition at www.hvirlan.fo
