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Today the second half of the Faroese Championships was held in windy conditions at Tórsbreyt. Despite a strong crosswind for the triple jumpers, something quite unusual happened in that event. The Faroese record was broken no fewer than five times in the women’s competition! In the very first jump, Edna Maria Debes managed to improve her own record, but after that it was Margit Weihe Fríðmundsdóttir who completely stole the show. Edna Maria only got to enjoy her new record for a brief moment. Straight afterwards Margit took the record from her, then improved it three more times and finished on 10.68 metres. Before the competition began, the record was 9.88 metres.
Margit Weihe Fríðmundsdóttir set a Faroese record no fewer than four times in the triple jump. (photo: Hvirlan)
Margit Weihe Fríðmundsdóttir also won the 200 metres final in a very exciting race, where Sára Debesardóttir looked like the winner for a long time. The men’s 200 m was also exciting, and here Teitur Bjarnastein managed to beat Rói Holgarsson, who had won the 100 m comfortably yesterday.
The javelin competitions were also rather remarkable. In the women’s event, Marita K. Petersen set a good personal best and threw further than the qualification standard for the 2015 Island Games. In the men’s event, the powerful Hanus Bergsson took part, but his injured arm meant that he threw with the wrong hand, so we were going to have a new Faroese champion. Former record holder and multiple Faroese champion Rógvi Højgaard was therefore the favourite to win, but with the very last throw Tróndur moved ahead of Rógvi and won the gold.
Marita K. Petersen also won the shot put, and thus won all four throwing events. Two men got over 11 metres, and the gold medallist was Hallur Simonsen with 11.65, which is also the best Faroese result this year.
All the results from the second day can be found in PDF at this link: Results FM 2015 day 2
Photos from both days of competition are on Hvirlan’s website: www.hvirlan.fo
(more text and photos here this evening)
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