Category: Faroe Islands
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CC photo #551: Pál racing past the Szczecin 2050 ad at Szczecin 2011
A photo from the LEN 2011 European Short Course Championships in Szczecin, Poland. Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen racing past the Szczecin Project 2050 ad during warmup on the last day of the meet.
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Time for Danish Champs 2013
Tomorrow morning at 09:00 Danish time, the 2013 Danish Long Course Swimming Championships begin with prelims in the Bellahøj Swim Stadium in Copenhagen, to run until Saturday night. The selections for the Barcelona 2013 World Champs have already been decided to be Jeanette Ottesen, Rikke Møller Pedersen, Lotte Friis and Pernille Blume, and the Poznan…
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CC photo #543: Last swim of the season
School’s out, which means that there will be no more public swimming either, this side of summer. The flag half-mast is in memory of our dear old school janitor and lifeguard, who passed away this week, 74 years young. I made it a (relatively speaking) swift 1500 meter in his honor.
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CC photo #538: Tug o’ War, Mano a Mano, the cold sea awaits
A snapshot from a video I took this morning, Helgi and Olaf duking it out here down on the pier at Toftir, Faroe Islands, in a tug of war match with a dip in the sea as punishment for the loser. Here is the video …
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CC photo #537: Clothes, boats and kayaks
A scene from the open water swim across Skálafjørður in the Faroe Islands, Sunday 16 June, 2013. Some swimmers using one of the traditional (race) rowing boats as a drying rack, while in the boathouse of Kappróðrarfelagið NSÃ. In the background kayaks and a sign saying (the 10-man rowing boat) “Eysturoyingur No. 1”. Old meets…
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CC photo #536: Týr frontman Heri Joensen completes the 2013 swim across Skálafjørður
Heri Joensen, lead vocal and guitarist of Týr completing the “Skálafjarðarsvimjingin 2013” open water swim across the firth Skálafjørður in the Faroe Islands, Sunday 16 June, 2013, in sync with his girlfriend. I suspect they gave him the No. 13 cap on purpose :-) Here is one of their songs, built upon one of our…
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Fond memories – Our Pál Joensen 2008 Belgrade Tribute
Pál Joensen gold medal winner in the 400, 800 and 1500 meter freestyle at the Beograd 2008 European Junior Championships. This tribute was played on local radio on arrival to the Faroe Islands again, a mash-up of the Bosnian hit song “Zjenico oka moga” by Hari Mata Hari that we heard all the time while…
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CC photo #535: Cecilia winner of Skálafjarðarsvimjingin 2013
Cecilia Wigant Eysturdal from the swim club Ægir in KlaksvÃk racing to another sea swimming victory here in the Faroe Islands, at the open water event across the firth Skálafjørður, Sunday 16 June, 2013. She managed the 1600+ meters in 21:44.20, the fastest man second in 28:02.86.