Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
On Monday, Hvirlan organised a long jump competition. The weather was unusually kind that day, so there was extra excitement in the air. It was almost calm, though there were a few small gusts that on some occasions pushed the wind gauge above the permitted two metres per second. Six jumpers competed. Calling them all jumpers is perhaps stretching it a bit, as two of them have hardly ever taken part in jumping competitions before. But the two throwers, Hanus Bergsson and Hallur Simonsen, showed that they can do more than just throw a long way. Both cleared five metres, and Hanus reached 5.51 metres with his first jump.
But it was perhaps Trygvi Laksafoss and Tórur Mortensen that people had their eyes on in particular. Both of them have trained specifically for this event for several years, and their training has been going very well recently. Unfortunately, Trygvi only got two jumps that day. On his second jump he landed so awkwardly that he picked up a minor injury and chose to stop. That jump was a fairly long one, 6.01 metres (+2.2). Very unfortunate, as he presumably has a lot more in him. But that will have to wait. Tórur’s distance was very good, but his work on the board less so. His first four jumps were all very long, but they were fouls. On his fifth attempt, though, it came together better, and Tórur had 5.71 metres recorded, which is two centimetres longer than the now old age-group record for Boys 16, set by Trygvi Laksafoss in 2010.
Elias Thorsteinsson and Dánjal Dahl Ljósheim also jumped, and both had good jumps and got past four metres.
www.hvirlan.fo writes about this competition and has all the results at this link: http://www.hvirlan.fo/lang-lop-a-torsbreyt-2/
This one was a foul, but Tórur still set an age-group record for Boys 16.
