Category: Faroe Islands
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Pál cramming between heats at FM 2012
Just a short video from the Faroese Championships this weekend. Pál Joensen had found a quiet spot to read up on history between the 200 freestyle and butterfly heats. I hear that the exam was on Monday morning (Faroese Champs ending at 19:00 Sunday evening, and then, you know, a 2 hour boat ride home…
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CC photo #136: The SuSvim victory sign
If you see this kind of clapping in Faroese swimming, it means that someone from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag won. In this case, gold, silver and bronze in the women’s junior 100 butterfly.
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2 more Faroese records, 1 junior on 3rd day of champs
On this last day of the Faroese short course championships, 2 more senior records and 1 junior were posted, Ægir KlaksvÃk managing a junior record of 1:39.83 in the boys’ 4×50 freestyle, Suðuroyar Svimjifelag a time of 1:47.37 and Faroese record in the women’s 4×50 freestyle, and HS Tórshavn a time of 1:35.26 and Faroese…
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CC photo #135: Pál doing homework between prelim heats
Budapest 2010 European silver medalist and Shanghai 2011 Worlds finalist cramming for exams between the 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly preliminary heats at the Faroese Short Course Championships on May 13, 2012. He won both events and 9 more at these championships, plus a silver medal and some relay medals.
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CC photo #134: Magnus Jákupsson (FAR) 55.94 in the 100 SC individual medley
Magnus Jákupsson managed an (at least for us) impressive time of 55.94 in the 100 meter short course IM today at the Faroese Championships, beating Pál Joensen’s Faroese national record of 57.66 from the supersuited days of 2009, and his own Faroese junior record of 57.75 from the Danish short course championships in 2011. Pál…
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5 Faroese records, 5 junior on 1st day of SC champs
The Faroese Short Course Championships started out well today, with 5 national records and 5 junior records being set during prelims and finals. See all results from prelims here and from finals here.
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OK, almost ready for the Faroese Championships tomorrow
Tomorrow morning we’ll dive into the 2012 Faroese (Short Course) Championships, I guess they are busy preparing the pool in Tórshavn while others like me are doing other stuff like preparing our live timing and things like that. So, you know, if this site seems dead at times this weekend, it is because we are busy…
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CC photo #131: Pál readying himself for a swim at FM 2011
Pál Joensen readying himself for the men’s 400 freestyle prelims at the Faroese (Short Course) Championships 2011. Our depth is not so impressive, to say the least – As the only senior swimmer in the 400 freestyle, he had to swim this heat alone.
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CC photo #129: Sea swimmers ready for the SFS 2005
A team photo before the “Skálafjarðarsvimjingin 2005”, a swim we arranged twice here in the local swim club. We’re situated at the mouth of Skálafjørðurin, the longest firth on the Faroe Islands, some 15 kilometers long and only 600 across here at the mouth, so it is only natural to dream of taking the short…