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We often say that Faroese people are everywhere. That is certainly true when the big marathons around the world take place. In the Copenhagen Marathon there are seldom fewer than 50 Faroese taking part, and in Berlin the number has sometimes been over 30. And there are always Faroese taking part in London, New York, Stockholm, Amsterdam and elsewhere too.
Last Sunday the New York race was run. It came exactly one year after the terrible storm that struck the American east coast and caused severe destruction, in New York among other places. For that reason the New York Marathon was cancelled, and the many, many participants who had come from every corner of the world to run could only sit and huddle in their hotels.
This year the weather was much kinder, and the race could go ahead as planned. I knew of a few Faroese who were due to take part, and afterwards it is always fun to sit and search for Faroese names in the long results list. I found 12 Faroese. Among them were the Treysti couple Jón and Mona Rasmussen, who were also in New York last year in all the stormy weather. However, it was the former B36 captain and national team stalwart from Landskrona, Tummas Eli Hansen, who is otherwise completely unknown in the running world, who was first across the finish line. The cyclist Kjartan Egholm, who is also chair of the Faroese Cycling and Triathlon Federation, and good old Bragdið chair Robert Vilhelmsen were also in the thick of it. The list of Faroese can be seen here, and if anyone knows of other Faroese runners, they are welcome to write it in a comment below the article.
- Tummas Eli Hansen, 4:13:52
- Robert Vilhelmsen, 4:18:15
- Hildur Niclasen, 4:22:27
- Mona Rasmussen, 4:24:16
- Jón Rasmussen, 4:24:16
- Fríðin Ziskason, 4:28:48
- Jan Petersen, 4:29:56
- Jógvan Næs, 4:38:06
- Tanja Petersen, 4:59:18
- Kjartan Egholm, 5:02:12
- Tonja Ziskason, 5:05:04
- Hákun Steingrímsson, 5:30:31
People from Klaksvík and Treysti in New York. From left: Jón Rasmussen, Mona Rasmussen, Jan Petersen, Tanja Petersen, Tonja Ziskason and Fríðin Ziskason
