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On Saturday the first day of the Faroese Championships was held at Tórsbreyt. The performance of the day came from Rebekka Fuglø, who set a solid Faroese record in the 400 metres and at the same time became the first Faroese woman to run under the minute. Her Faroese record before the day was 60.22 seconds, but today she took more than a full second off it and finished all the way down at 59.17 seconds!!
This is quite incredible, because not only was she alone on the track in the race, but she also had a fresh 800 metres in her legs, where she had also had her foot down hard on the accelerator, even though that wasn’t needed to win the race, in which Elin Kristina Ryan also took part and won silver.
Rebekka squeezes out her last ounce of strength and sets yet another Faroese record in the 400 m (photo: Hvirlan)
There was plenty of excitement at Tórsbreyt today too. The closest competition was the women’s long jump, where both Margit Weihe Fríðmundsdóttir and Edna Maria Debes were well up towards the Faroese record, and in the end just a single centimetre made Margit the Faroese champion. On the men’s side we got a new Faroese champion when Magnus Dal-Christiansen won his first Faroese title ever.
The men’s 800 m was also very close, with just 3/10 of a second separating the top three runners, and Rúni Seloy came out on top. The 400 metres was also very close between Teitur Bjarnastein and Steingrímur Hallsson, with the former just managing to squeeze ahead towards the end.
Fighting for their lives: Teitur Bjarnastein, Steingrímur Hallsson and Rúni Seloy (photo: Hvirlan)
In the women’s 100 metres it looked for a long time as though Hildur Poulsen’s good start would give her the win, but 10 m before the finish line Margit Weihe Fríðmundsdóttir managed to catch her. Rói Holgarsson won the men’s race, which was marked by withdrawals, and there was no excitement.
The 100 m final. Margit edges ahead of Hildur in the last few metres. Tinna in red finished third (photo: Hvirlan)
The best Faroese female thrower is undoubtedly Marita K. Petersen. Her favourite event is the javelin, which isn’t until tomorrow, but already today she won two gold medals in the throws. In the hammer Bjørk Reynagarð Svabo came closest, while Edna Maria Debes posed the biggest threat in the discus.
On the men’s side it was, not unexpectedly, Hallur Simonsen who won the discus and Heri Ziska who won the hammer.
Marita won two gold medals in the throws, while Heri, with a single discus throw and a single hammer throw, claimed a gold and a silver medal. (Photo: Hvirlan)
Most of the best men had turned out for the 5,000 metres final, but no one could match young Julian Gregersen. He ran a time that only Marnar Djurhuus has bettered in recent years. Rúni Seloy and Henry Olsen hung on for a good while, but had to settle silver and bronze between them in a long, hard sprint finish.
Bragdið won both 4×100 m relays. Hvirlan’s women dropped the baton at the first changeover, and that settled it. Without Rúni Jacobsen and Magnus Dal-Christiansen, Hvirlan’s strong team was also weakened so much that Bragdið were able to settle matters on the final leg.
Tomorrow the competitions resume at 13:00, and hopefully we will again get plenty of close and exciting competitions.
All of today’s results can be found in a .pdf at this link: Results Faroese Championships 2015 day 1
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