Category: Faroe Islands
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Video: Men’s 400 freestyle final at Danish Open 2012
Two world class performances at the Bellahøj Svømmestadion, yesterday evening. Pál Joensen first in 3:46.84 and a new Faroese record, Mads Glæsner second in 3:46.93. Brilliant. Courtesy of René Thomsen / paljoensen.com
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Danish Trials Day 2 Finals: Blume added to Olympic roster
In the women’s 100 meter freestyle, world champion Jeanette Ottesen confirmed her Olympic qualification with a time of 53.90, followed by also qualifying Pernille Blume in 54.06. In the 800 freestyle, Lotte Friis cruised to a time of 8:28.52 and confirmed qualification, with Grainne Murphy (IRL) clocking 8:29.55 and 2nd also under the FINA A…
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Danish Trials Day 1 Finals: 4 Danes and Pál confirm spot on Danish Olympic squad
In the women’s 100 freestyle semifinal, Jeanette Ottesen’s 55.64 didn’t quite make the Olympic qualification time (yet), but is on the team anyhow because of having made it in Shanghai, and then now the lesser ‘stability time’ of 55.39 (FINA A + 1.5%) that Danes want the already qualified to swim at the Danish Trials,…
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CC photo #83: Pál and Mads at the Rijeka 2008 SC Europeans
Pál Joensen (FAR) and Mads Glæsner (DEN) having a chat at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships venue. They have had many a tight tussle, the last one today, both officially qualifying for the London Olympics in the Danish Trials with a time of 3:46.84 and 3:46.93, respectively.
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CC photo #82: Waiting outside the Jaked stand in Rome
Fun memories from the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships. Birita wanted one of those brand new Jaked supersuits, so we arrived at about 8 in the morning only to find out when the shop opened at 10 that they didn’t have size 20 nor 22. The day before we had been too far back in…
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The President, the Coach, the Champ and me
There I was, about to be beaten to a pulp by the former Danish 200 meter butterfly champion, now president of the Faroese swimming federation, the coach of Pál Joensen, and the guy who used to be able to do 100 pushups in 1 minute (and still probably can). Must work on my start, my…
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CC photo #79: Masters meet in Vági, March 17th, 2012
Calm before the first race of the Masters meet in Vágur, Faroe Islands, yesterday evening. I competed myself, still nackered because of having tried to swim 50 butterfly and 50 freestyle fast with only two heats in between (and then attending the post-race party).
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Faroese TV on Pál Joensen’s first altitude training camp
Bartal has been busy this weekend, transcribing this segment out of Kringvarp Føroya‘s sports broadcast on March 8th, 2012. On how Pál and Jón joined the Danish swim team on an 4-weeks altitude training camp in Sierra Nevada and Pretoria recently, the first ever for Pál and Jón.
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CC photo #78: Swim meet in Vági today
SuSvim meet in Vágur, Faroe Island today and tomorrow, March 17 – 18, 2012. This site will probably be a bit silent today because of this.