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Over the weekend, the annual Danish Veterans’ Championships were held at Østerbro Stadion in Copenhagen. In recent years there has usually been Faroese participation, and this year was no exception. And it paid off.
Borgarhjørt Holm, who won the Faroese Championships over 5,000 m unopposed the previous weekend, once again found herself with no one to race against. That made it easy to defend the Danish veterans’ title in the 45-49 age group, which she also won last year. Borgarhjørt’s time was 20:21.79 min, somewhat faster than she ran on the Tórsbreyt track at the Faroese Championships, but a little slower than when she finished in 3rd place at Ólavsøka.
Borgarhjørt Holm finished in 3rd place at Ólavsøka and won the veterans’ race. She then became Faroese champion over 5,000 m and has now won the Danish Veterans’ Championships.
Henry Olsen also ran the 5,000 metres. And he really showed that he is back in good form. His time is one of the best he has ever run, and in a strong race he managed to win bronze in 17:19.50 min in the 50-54 age group. The silver medallist in this age group is also a little bit Faroese. It was the Ólavsøka legend Bent Povlsen, and he ran the 5,000 metres in 17:11.06.
We have many good veteran runners in the Faroe Islands, and these are definitely two of them. They had a hard battle at Ólavsøka. Henry (left) won bronze at the Danish Veterans’ Championships, and might we not soon see Cecil (right) right at the front in some veterans’ race?
Evald við Garð is undoubtedly the Faroese athlete who has most often competed in veterans’ competitions, and once again he had entered these Danish Championships. Evald has been a Faroese national team runner and represented the Faroe Islands at the Island Games in Guernsey in 2003, where he ran the 800 m. And it is still the same distance that Evald focuses on most, and he usually ends up somewhere on the podium. He did so this time too, as he won silver with 2:12.95.
Evald við Garð from Kollafjørður on the podium at Østerbro on Sunday
So, despite being few in number, the Faroese athletes won gold, silver and bronze at the Danish Veterans’ Championships. FÍF warmly congratulates you all.
