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It was Hvirlan that came away with the most when the Faroese Track and Field Championships for seniors were held on 20 and 21 August. 17 Faroese titles went to Hvirlan, while Bragdið won nine and Treysti five. Many young athletes became Faroese champions, and several of them were competing at the Faroese Championships for the first time. Here is a photo report from the two days of competition. Bjørg Svabo took the photos.
We don’t start with the youngest, though, but with the heaviest. If we put all of Heri’s championship medals together, he is a true heavyweight. Once again he became Faroese champion in the discus and the hammer. It looked good in the photos, but I expect Heri would probably have liked to throw a bit further than he did that day. Still, it was certainly enough for two gold medals.
Edna Maria accounted for three of Hvirlan’s gold medals. On Saturday she, like Heri, became Faroese champion in both the hammer and the discus, and on Sunday she won the 100 m hurdles. In both throwing events she set a new age-group record for G19.
15-year-old Dánjal Dahl Ljósheim won two gold medals. He is the first Hvirlan runner to win a middle-distance Faroese title. He did this by winning the 1,500 metres comfortably. Dánjal enjoys most events and usually competes in several. He also managed to become Faroese champion in the high jump.
Many people were waiting eagerly for the women’s 100 m final. Everything was wide open, and at least four athletes had a chance of becoming the Faroe Islands’ new sprint queen. It was Elisabet Holm Simonsen who managed to edge ahead of Alda and Margit, and she can now call herself the fastest woman in the Faroe Islands. Margit won the Faroese title in the triple jump, while Alda took silver in the 100 m and bronze in the 200 m.
Oddvør Josephsen was at her first Faroese Championships and could head back north to Klaksvík with three Faroese titles. This young fighter won the 400 m, 800 m and 1,500 m. 15-year-old Oddvør has previously achieved the Island Games qualification standard in all of these distances.
Marnar Djurhuus (left) back on top after a long break. Marnar became Faroese champion in the 5,000 m and the 3,000 m steeplechase. Despite being away from running for almost two years, he picked up where he left off, set two good personal bests and was well under the Island Games qualification standard in both distances. His 5,000 m time is the fastest ever run by a Faroese athlete in the Faroe Islands. Jan Elmar Sørensen (right) also ran exceptionally well, and had it not been for Marnar, it would have been Jan Elmar who had run the best Faroese 5,000 m time ever on home soil.
The battle was also fierce for the lesser crowns. Sam lay in wait behind Andrias for most of the 5,000 metres, then sneaked past him and took the bronze. Daniel Djurhuus Rein has won many Faroese titles in the long jump, but this time had to settle for silver
The big star was Tórur Mortensen, who, despite being disqualified in the 100 metres, won no fewer than five Faroese titles. First photo – Tórur can not only walk on water, he can also walk on air. And he can also clear hurdles at great speed. So great, in fact, that it was a new Faroese record. Tórur became Faroese champion in the long jump, triple jump, 110 m hurdles, javelin and 4×100 m.
The new Faroese champion in the women’s high jump was Teresa Bláhamar, who was competing for the first time. She finished the competition by attempting the Faroese record, which she has also tried before. But once again she fell just short. The officials Gunnvá and Jógvan make sure everything goes according to the rules and nothing is left to chance.
In the women’s javelin, too, we got a brand-new Faroese champion. Sunniva Bogadóttir has trained a lot recently and was rewarded for her efforts. First Faroese Championships and first Faroese gold medal! Steinolvur Geyti has done it before, but has also missed several championships due to injury. This year he once again won the Faroese title in the shot put.
Another exciting race in the women’s 200 m. This time it was Margit W. Fríðmundsdóttir who came out on top, with Elisabet and Alda right behind. In the men’s race, it was Magnus Dal-Christiansen who won gold ahead of Rúni Seloy. Magnus also won medals in several other events.
The podium for the fastest. There were many casualties in the 100 m, and in the end it was the injured javelin thrower Hanus Bergsson who became sprint king. Magnus Dal-Christiansen was second, and an old familiar face from Svangaskarð, Nólsoy’s Nikolai Falk, was third. He has also won the Faroese 100 metres title in the past. On the right is Rúni Seloy winning gold in the 800 metres, a few metres ahead of Dánjal Dahl Ljósheim. Rúni Seloy won the Faroese title in the 400 m.
The relays were somewhat thinly contested. But that is often where the best photos come from. Here are the winning teams in the 4×100 m. Hvirlan, with Hanus Bergsson, Tórur Mortensen, Magnus Dal-Christiansen and Dánjal Dahl Ljósheim, were just one second off the Faroese record. The Bragdið team, with Margit Weihe Fríðmundsdóttir, Theresa Bláhamar, Elisabet Holm Simonsen and Hildur Poulsen, were two seconds off the record.
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