Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
A large FÍF team is competing this weekend at Vårlds Ungdomsspelen in Gothenburg. This is the 5th year in a row, and the seventh time in all, that FÍF has sent the youth national team to this particular competition.
Rarely, if ever, have we had so many good results after a single day as we did today. It was especially pleasing that we also got some outstanding results in the technical events. In the jumping and throwing events there is often a long wait between attempts, sometimes more than half an hour, and then it is hard to keep everything together.
But today there were achievements in several cases. In the javelin competition for boys aged 18-19, Hanus Bergsson sent the javelin out to 57.75 metres in his first attempt, and in doing so took Rógvi Højgaard’s seven-year-old record by ONE centimetre! That throw sent Hanus into the final and gave him three more attempts. In his very last attempt, Hanus set yet another Faroese record when he reached all the way out to 59.00 metres.
Hanus Bergsson now holds the Faroese record in the javelin
A very, very strong result for Hanus, which was also enough for a well-deserved bronze medal in this strong competition. To underline the achievement, it is worth noting that so far this year only three Danish men have thrown further than 19-year-old Hanus Bergsson. Helgi Geyti also improved his personal best in the javelin and was just under the 45-metre mark.
Helgi Geyti set a personal best
And then there was Tórur Mortensen! A year ago he set a personal best here at Nya Ullevi with 5.14 m in the long jump. Now, a year on, a few centimetres taller, and after many hours in the sandpit at Tórsbreyt, he was flying. Despite fouls on both of his first two jumps, he went all out on the third. The result was incredible. 16-year-old Tórur reached all the way out to 6.18 metres, improving his own age-group record by just under half a metre!
Tórur Mortensen (here at Tórsbreyt) set a great PB today
This also gave Tórur a place in the final, where he also proved that this was not just a one-off long jump, because in the final he was again over six metres! Tórur, who is now just 12 centimetres short of the Island Games qualification standard for the games in Jersey, finished 6th overall.
In Óluva A. Joensen, Klaksvík has gained a strong shot putter. 12-year-old Óluva has not trained much with the shot, but she is very strong and has a good competitive streak. Just a few weeks ago she broke the age-group record by a metre, and today she added another metre. There were many girls in the competition, and it was very close. 8 of the roughly 50 girls made the final, and Óluva got in as the last of them, and so got three more attempts. Here she managed, with her very last throw, to throw 9.80 metres, which turned out to be enough for 6th place – just 11 centimetres from the bronze position.
Óluva A. Joensen set a great age-group record
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