Faroese Youth Championships on 23 and 24 August

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The Faroese Youth Championships, which in recent years have been the biggest competition in athletics, are now fast approaching. The championships will be held at the Tórsbreyt track next Saturday and Sunday. FÍF is organising the competition together with the clubs. The competition is so big that it runs over two days. The age groups and events are similar to those of previous years, although some technical events are held in alternate years. The two oldest groups have been given an additional throwing event, and they will also get a final round with three extra attempts.

The groups and events for 2014 are as follows:

 

In addition, there will be the following relays. On Saturday there will be a 4×100 metres relay for these groups:

• girls and boys 10-11 years
• girls and boys 12-13 years
• girls and boys 14-19 years

And on Sunday there will be a 4×200 mixed relay (two girls and two boys) for these groups:

• 8-9 years
• 10-11 years
• 12-13 years
• 14-15 years
• 16-19 years 1,000 m (100 m, 200 m, 300 m, 400 m) girls and boys

On Saturday the competition starts at 10:00 and continues until about 14:00. On Sunday the day begins with a parade at 12:30, and the competition then starts at 13:00. Everything is expected to be finished at about 17:00.

In all sprint events the heats will be on Saturday and the finals on Sunday.

REGISTRATION
All registration must go through the clubs, which send a combined registration (in an Excel file) to FÍF. The deadline for clubs to send their registrations to FÍF is midnight on Monday evening. The fee is DKK 30 per registered start, and the invoice will be sent to the clubs. Late entries can be made until Wednesday 20 August at 12:00, but the fee is then 5 x the entry fee (i.e. DKK 150). There is no need to register in advance for the relays. They will be dealt with on the day of the competition.

OFFICIALS AND HELPERS
An event this big also needs a lot of officials and helpers. For these people, FÍF will put a registration form on the website, where you can say when you can officiate or help. There will be four time slots to help in, and everyone is free to choose one, two, three or all four of them. They are:

10:00–12:00 Saturday
12:00–14:00 Saturday
13:00–15:00 Sunday
15:00–17:00 Sunday

FÍF hopes for a good response and ideally more athletes and starts than last year, when 107 athletes and almost 500 starts were registered.

The aim is to publish the start lists on Wednesday evening.

 

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