Category: Faroe Islands
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CC photo #186: Magnus and Eyðbjørn at the Faroese Champs 2012
Magnus Jákupsson and Eyðbjørn Joensen during warmup at the 2012 Faroese National (Short Course) Championships. Magnus (in the TYR cap) was only 2 hundredths of a second from qualifying for the 50 butterfly final in the Antwerp 2012 European Junior Championships semi-final this afternoon. Eyðbjørn is Pál’s kid brother, competing at the Nordic Youth Championships…
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Faroe a force to be reckoned with at Nordic Youths 2012
This weekend Denmark will host the 2012 Nordic Youth Championships, at Bellahøj Svømmestadion in Denmark. Sweden and Denmark are clear favorites to win most medals, but tiny Faroe Islands are also able to compete, with several swimmers vying for both gold, silver and bronze medals. (Eyðbjørn, Alvi and Markus on bikes in Copenhagen)
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CC photo #185: Dinner table at the Stockholm 2011 World Cup
Our table at the Clarion hotel during the Stockholm 2011 World Cup. Closest to the left is Magnus Jákupsson (FAR), semifinalist from the Beograd 2011 European Juniors, then Pál Joensen (FAR) and then Alexander Dale Oen (NOR). The people with the map is a Danish TV crew trying to find their way home. Smiling guy…
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CC photo #183: Young officials at a SuSvim masters meet
Masters swimming is in its infancy here in the Faroe Islands, with the annual Faroese championships only two years old, and competitions scarce. We are also not really ‘there’ yet when it comes to making this part of competitive really serious, proven for instance by the fact that we typically switch roles and let the…
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CC photo #182: Escort boat at the Joansøkusvimjingin 2011
A traditional Faroese rowing boat, design from way back in the viking days, used as on of the escort boats at the open water race “Jóansøkusvimjingin” across the firth of Tvøroyri back in 2011. Our national sport is races in these rowing boats, arranged as a series of races at village festivals where they rack…
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CC photo #178: Pál and Jón after the 2010 Europeans 1500 freestyle
Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason by the warm-up pool at the Budapest 2010 European Swimming Championships, after Pál won silver in the men’s 1500 freestyle. They left for Denmark and then Croatia this morning, to attend the final training camp before London 2012. Won’t come back until after the Olympics.
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Danish swimmer Matthias Gydesen officially invited to the Olympics
The Danish Swimming Federation announced today that Mathias Gydesen has received the official invitation from FINA to compete at the London Olympics, expected as he was only 1 hundredth of a second from qualifying back in March. Gydesen comments: ‘Of course I am relieved that the final decision has arrived, even though I saw it…
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CC photo #172: Catching the rainbow
Not really a swim photo, but the weather was (for once) just too nice to sit inside and skim through swim photos. My two youngest working as a team to try to catch that rainbow! :-)
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CC photo #169: And the time is 2:71.50 :-P
A snapshot from a meet in Tórshavn, yesterday evening. Don’t ask :-P