Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
Although the weather gods were with us on both days when the 2014 Faroese Championships were held at the Tórsbreyt track over the weekend, the north-easterly, the east-north-easterly and the easterly winds keep on tormenting our sprint-strong young athletes. At almost every single running event the sprinters have had a headwind as their worst enemy, and so it was again this weekend. And so, naturally, we did not get the good times that we know our best athletes are capable of.
As so often, the relays turned out to be the events that brought the spectators right up out of their seats. Although there was only one team in the women’s event, the stage was set for a record attempt that could hardly fail. Four of our very strongest 400 metre runners made up the team that was to put an end to the Faroese record set at Svangaskarð in 1992. It is certainly not because this is an unbeatable record that it has been allowed to stand for so long. It is more because this event has so rarely been held. The mixed team from Bragdið and Treysti did indeed improve the record considerably. The old record was 5:07.8 min. and the new record is 4:15.37. So they managed to take more than 50 seconds off the record!
Standing: Katarina Høj and Margit W. Fríðmundsdóttir. Sitting: Karin Holm Simonsen and Rebekka Fuglø. It would have been great to have a Faroese 4×400 team at the Island Games.
The men’s 4×400 was very exciting. Hvirlan, Bragdið and Roysnið/Treysti were the three teams that were to battle it out. The race came down to the reds and the blues. For a long time it looked as though Hvirlan would win, but on the final leg Rúni Seloy managed to put things right for Bragdið.
Back: Hanus Bergsson, Tórur Mortensen, Rúni Seloy, Steingrímur Hallsson, Einar Gregersen and Rúni Skarðhamar.
Front: Øssur Debes Eiriksfoss, Trygvi Laksafoss, Rógvi Johansen, Regin Thomsen and Marnar Djurhuus.
Hans Hjørleivur Magnussen is the new Faroese champion in the shot put. He improved a great deal and won with 10.58 m. In second place was Steinolvur Geyti (left) and in third place was Kristian Martin Garðalíð (right)
Two fantastic middle-distance runners! Katarina and Rebekka have run many a hard race. Rebekka Fuglø won six gold medals at the Faroese Championships: 200 m, 400 m, 800 m, 1,500 m, 4×100 m and 4×400 m. Katarina had to settle for silver in the 800 and 1,500, but became Faroese champion in the high jump!
Rúni Seloy shakes off the exhaustion after running his team to victory. 6 events and 6 gold medals was his haul at the Faroese Championships, where he won the 400 m, 800 m, 1,500 m, 400 m hurdles, 4×100 m and 4×400 m.
Marnar Djurhuus won gold in the 3,000 m steeplechase and the 5,000 metres.
Marita the multi-athlete! Now she has really got the javelin flying! But also gold in the discus, shot put and triple jump!
Tummas Napoleon Arge won his first Faroese Championships title. And he certainly hasn’t had a tailwind this year. Regin Joensen finished two metres behind.
The javelin throwers showed good form. Hanus Bergsson is Faroese champion, while Steingrímur Hallsson (left) and Tróndur Arge (right) both set good personal bests.
Results of the 2014 Faroese Championships
