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For many years now, Rebekka Fuglø of Treysti has been a regular at the Danish Youth Championships (DM-Ung), both indoors and outdoors. She has won several Danish titles, particularly at 800 and 1,500 metres, and has also brought home a number of silver and bronze medals.
Fields at those championships have often been fairly small, so Rebekka, who is still young enough for the DM-U, chose instead to compete at the Danish senior championships, which were held this weekend. The standard of Danish middle-distance running has risen markedly in recent years, with many young and very talented girls. Eight very strong women therefore lined up for the 800 metres final at the Danish Championships today. To give an idea of how strong they were, every one of them could, on a good day, have won gold and set an Island Games record had they been competing at the Island Games. Hopes of a top placing for Rebekka were therefore not especially high.
But when it was all over, Rebekka had run to a remarkable fourth place, and with a new Faroese record of 2:14.83 min. Rebekka held the previous record herself, set in January when she won the Stórmót IR in Reykjavík. Rebekka has set a huge number of Faroese records at 800 metres, though she has lost the record to other Faroese athletes a few times. Since 2007, Bjørk H. Olsen, Katarina Høj and Rebekka Fuglø have brought the record down from 2:25 min.
That Rebekka can run this fast at this time of year bodes well. Conditions for high-intensity training in Norðdepil in winter are, of course, extremely poor. Even so, the indoor record she set this weekend is faster than the outdoor record. At the Island Games, however, Rebekka was on course to run around 2:13.5 min when she collapsed from exhaustion two metres before the finish line. Given today’s result, it is likely that Rebekka will run even faster than this later in the year.
We warmly congratulate Rebekka on her result and wish her the best of luck going forward.
More can be read on Treysti’s website: www.treysti.fo
Today’s result earned Rebekka 949 IAAF points, which puts her on course to become the highest-ranked Faroese athlete across genders and events.
