Eight athletes for the Island Games in Jersey

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The board, together with selection manager Niels Jákup Jakobsen, has now named the athletes who will go to the Island Games in Jersey this summer. A great deal of effort has gone into securing an Island Games place recently, and in some cases it has paid off. In others it has been very close.

The final squad is as follows:

• Hanus Bergsson, Hvirlan – javelin
• Hallur Simonsen, Hvirlan – discus
• Tórur Mortensen, Hvirlan – long jump and triple jump
• Rúni Seloy, Bragdið – middle distance
• Rebekka Fuglø, Treysti – middle distance
• Valborg Heinesen, Bragdið – long distance
• Bjørk Herup Olsen, Bragdið – long distance
• Marna Egholm, Bragdið – long distance

Only three of them competed in Bermuda two years ago. Bjørk Herup Olsen is back again, while Hallur, Hanus, Tórur and Marna are taking part for the first time.

Several others came close to the qualification standards, and some were only a whisker away from achieving the qualifying mark. They can take comfort, however, in the fact that other national team assignments are also coming up this summer, and some of those who fell short for the Island Games have already achieved qualifying marks for the elite group, which is going to Iceland as guest participants at the Icelandic Championships, and for the talent group, which is going to VU-Spelen.

This fine lad has grown big, strong and capable. At the very last moment Tórur Mortensen jumped 13.37 metres in the triple jump, and in doing so jumped his way into the Island Games fever.

The team leaves the Faroe Islands on 25 June. The Games open on Saturday 27 June, and the following morning they begin with the half marathon, where the Faroe Islands currently look to have a very strong team. The team returns home on 4 July.