Marna 5th at the Danish Cross-Country Championships

Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.

It was a strong women’s field that lined up in Vognsbølparken in Esbjerg, where the Danish Cross-Country Championships were held on Saturday. Our own Marna Egholm was one of the strong runners in the field, and there was great anticipation over how she would fare against the vast majority of the very strongest Danish runners.

It went very well for Marna. She finished sixth of all the runners, one of whom was a foreigner and therefore not competing for the Danish title. Marna’s time for the 8 kilometres was 31.41 min, and only a little over 40 seconds separated her fifth place from the bronze.

The race was won by Simone Glad, and second was young Anne Emilie Møller, who ran so very well at the European Championships recently.

Marna’s haul on Saturday: Danish gold for women 35+ and Danish bronze in the team competition

Marna was not to leave Esbjerg empty-handed that day, though. Her team, Sparta, finished third in the team competition, and she herself won gold in the 35+ category!!

Marna’s next race will be the Danish 10 km Road Championships on 12 March, and a week later we will get to see her compete in Runavík, when she takes part in the Faroese Championships over the same distance.

The results from Esbjerg can be found at this link:

http://daf.sportstiming.dk/tilmelding/resultatliste.asp?ID=1404&kl=A&point=yes&diplom=true&koen=F