Women set record in the 4×100 m relay

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The Faroese women, Alda, Elisabet, Oddvør and Margit, have every reason to celebrate today’s performance.

At 11:00 this morning, Faroese women ran their first relay since 1989 on home soil at Svangaskarð, 28 years ago. Back then the Faroese time was 60.5 seconds.

The women were very excited and fired up for this race. Under coach Debes H. Christansen they had trained several times in the run-up to the competition, and it really seemed to have made a big difference, because the changeovers went very well.

There were 11 teams in the competition, and the Faroe Islands ran in lane two in the first heat. Alda S. Lamhauge started for us and passed the baton on to Elisabet. Margit ran the third leg and handed over to Oddvør, who ran the final 100 metres.

As mentioned, all the changeovers went well, and we were reasonably well placed the whole way. In a very exciting race we crossed the line in fourth place in the heat, so we waited anxiously for the second heat. Our time of 50.98 seconds is usually good enough to reach the final.

 

To make the final, the third team across the line would have to post a slower time than ours. That didn’t quite happen, because the sprinters from the Cayman Islands were just a fraction quicker with 50.85 seconds. So we were just 13/100 of a second short of the final.

But they certainly set a Faroese record. Two of today’s runners, Elisabet and Margit, held the previous record together with Sára Debesardóttir and Hildur Poulsen. That record was 52.66 seconds, so a big chunk was taken off it.

And if we think back to the Faroese team 28 years ago, our runners were almost 10 seconds faster.

Now we look forward to tomorrow, when the Faroese team will run the 4×400 metres. This team is probably stronger than the 4×100 m team. Our running order tomorrow will be: Elisabet, Oddvør, Margit, Rebekka.

We warmly congratulate today’s Faroese team on their performance and the record, and we wish tomorrow’s team the best of luck!

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