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Today we watched Usain Bolt become world champion over 100 metres for the fourth time in a row. This same weekend we have also seen the fastest Faroese times since 2003, when Heini Hátún set the current Faroese record of 11.27 seconds. For a long time it looked as though Rói Holgarsson of Bragdið would be the one to take this record, but now everything points to Rúni Jacobsen of Hvirlan. He is the fastest man in the Faroe Islands at the moment, and he is now very close to becoming the fastest Faroese sprinter ever.
Rúni poses after a very good 100 metres. Will he take the record this year? Or next year?
This weekend Rúni has been competing at the DM for Ung, where he runs in the 20–22 age group. In the heats he set a new personal best of 11.38 seconds and went through to the final with the big boys. In the final Rúni managed to improve his personal best once again, this time all the way down to 11.30 seconds, just 0.03 seconds off the Faroese record. That was good enough for 5th place overall.
Rúni Jacobsen is also very close to taking the Faroese record over 200 metres. That record also belongs to Heini Hátún and stands at 23.00 seconds. At VU-Spelen in Gothenburg, where Rúni was with the youth national team, he ran the 200 metres in 23.08 seconds.
“Færdige”, said the starter, and then they explode out of the blocks. At the DM Rúni represents Århus 1900
Rúni’s results this summer are without doubt good enough for Island Games qualification. That is why it is a great pity that he did not manage to meet the qualification standards in time. But now we have a strong sprinter, and if he manages to stay more or less free of injury, there is little doubt that we will have a Faroese athlete in the sprint finals in two years’ time on Gotland.
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