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This weekend the Danish Youth Championships (DMU) are taking place at Østerbro in Copenhagen. All three of the larger clubs have travelled down with some of their best athletes. DMU is for young athletes aged 14 to 22. Hvirlan has eight participants, Bragdið five and Treysti two. On Saturday the Faroese athletes took part in 17 events, and they came away with no fewer than seven medals!
It wasn’t just medals. We also won a Danish championship title when Rebekka Fuglø won the 1,500 metres. Two Faroese records also came along with the medals today. The first was in the javelin, where Hanus Bergsson improved the Faroese javelin record for the third time. This time it went to 59.19 metres, earning silver in an exciting competition in which he was in the lead at one point.
Rebekka Fuglø in the green Vejle top can celebrate yet another Danish title (photo: Guttorm Sørensen)
A delighted Hanus Bergsson, who has just added 19 centimetres to his Faroese record (photo: Heri Ziska)
Edna Maria Debes also set a Faroese record today. Three times, in fact! This happened in the triple jump, where she set a Faroese record in her third, fourth and fifth attempts. Her longest jump was 9.88 metres and was enough for a fine silver medal. Marita K. Petersen has for a long time been close to breaking Elsa Berg’s old record (9.63 m). When she finally managed it, it was too late. And with 9.68 metres she was also just short of the bronze medal.
Edna Maria Debes won silver in the triple jump and set a new Faroese record – three times! (photo: Heri Ziska)
But things went even better for Marita in the javelin, where with her final throw she set a big personal best and, in a fiercely contested competition, managed to throw her way to a silver medal with 36.79 metres! Helgi Geyti and Tróndur Arge also won medals in the javelin. Helgi took silver with 44.69 m and Tróndur bronze with 44.44 m.
The seventh medal of the day was won by Katarina Høj in the 1,500 metres. Right up until 200 m to go, several runners were completely level. But then the field split up, and Katarina battled her way to a bronze medal with a personal best – 4:50.08 min. This is also an age-group record.
The Faroese results on Saturday:
- Margit W. Fríðmundsdóttir – 300 m – 43.66 – 5th Girls 14–15
- Karin Holm Simonsen – 300 m – 45.40 – 12th Girls 14–15
- Katarina Høj – 1,500 m – 4:50.08 – BRONZE Girls 14–15
- Rebekka Fuglø – 1,500 – 4:37.98 – GOLD Girls 20–22
- Edna Maria Debes – triple jump – 9.88 m – SILVER & FAROESE RECORD Girls 16–17
- Marita K. Petersen – triple jump – 9.68 m – 4th Girls 16–17
- Marita K. Petersen – javelin – 36.79 m – SILVER Girls 16–17
- Teitur Bjarnastein – 400 m – 56.06 – 11th Boys 16–17
- Steingrímur Hallsson – 400 m – 54.67 – 8th Boys 16–17
- Einar Gregersen – 1,500 m – 4:17.91 – 9th
- Hanus Bergsson – javelin – 59.19 m – SILVER Boys 18–19
- Helgi Geyti – javelin – 44.69 m – SILVER Boys 20–22
- Tróndur Arge – javelin – 44.44 m – BRONZE Boys 20–22
- Steingrímur Hallsson – javelin – 45.41 m – 5th Boys 16–17
- Hallur Simonsen – shot put – 12.06 m – 6th Boys 18–19
- Tórur Mortensen – triple jump – 12.48 m – 4th Boys 16–17
- Trygvi Laksafoss – triple jump – 12.32 m – 4th Boys 20–22
The competitions continue all day Sunday, and most of our athletes are taking part in at least one event. There is certainly a chance of more medals on Sunday too. We will sum up on Sunday evening.
