Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
Our best long-distance runners produced some exceptionally good results when the World Half Marathon Championships were held in Copenhagen on 29 March. Among other things, Marnar Djurhuus broke the second-oldest Faroese record of all, while Valborg Heinesen improved her own record considerably. Before the half marathon became so common, 20 km was the usual distance to run. It is not run so often any more, but because it is a traditional competition distance that was often on the programme up to the 70s and 80s, records are also kept for this distance.
Marnar and Valborg set a total of four Faroese records in Copenhagen on 29 March 2014
And precisely for this reason, the organisers of the World Half Marathon Championships had taken extra care to ensure that both 10 km and 20 km times could be ratified as world records or national records, should anyone run times good enough for that. There was no 20 km time for women on the Faroese record list before this. For men, Absalon Hansen held the record from a race in Svendborg in the late 80s, where he ran 1:06:45. Marnar’s time in Copenhagen was 1:05:21, but the gross time is what counts here. Marnar was only two seconds from the start line, so his ratified record will be 1:05:23.
These are records number 15 and 16 for seniors in 2014, counting both indoor and outdoor records.
FÍF warmly congratulates Marnar and Valborg on their records.
