Tag: Jón Bjarnason
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CC photo #569: Almost there after Belgrade 2008
Pál Joensen, Jón Bjarnason, Malan Bærendsen, a TV guy and me in the back of a lorry, driving the last stretch alongside Vatnið to VB húsið ‘Vesturið á Eiðinum’ in Vágur, Suðuroy.
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CC photo #521: Warm-up at Rijeka 2008
Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason discussing whatever during warm-up on the first day of the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia.
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CC photo #500: SuSvim most winning team at Faroe Champs 2013
Group photo of Suðuroyar Svimjifelag at the 2013 Faroese (Short Course) Championships, the team that won most medals in total. Also, CC photo #500 :-)
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CC photo #495: Pál and Jón back on deck in Tórshavn
Pál Joensen and SuSvim coach Jón Bjarnason discussing whatever during warmup the first morning at the 2013 Faroese Championships. The old team rides again.
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CC photo #491: Haljand-test in Tórshavn 4 May 2013
Our very own ‘pocket rocket’ Kristina Elin Thomsen from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag taking off from a start block in Tórshavn, yesterday. Professor Rein Haljand filming the start with a tripod camera while son Holger hauls the overwater/underwater camera cart. And in blue, coach Jón Bjarnason getting his own version too with an iPhone :-)
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CC photo #483: Video analysis crew ready at Kalev Spa
Just a photo from Tallinn, Estonia back in January 2009, when we visited Rein Haljand for a bit of video analysis of Pál Joensen. Haljand’s son Holger ready with the camera cart, Jón Bjarnason ready to move the back stroke flags out of the way. A really nice pool and hotel, the Kalev Spa.
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CC photo #482: Impressive mosaic at Roma 09
The Faroese swim team admiring the decorated walls of the Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto, during the FINA 2009 World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy.
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CC photo #343: The President looking forward to an open water swim
“Like swimming in noodle soup”, he said afterwards, describing the experience of swimming in the shallow fresh water lake Vatnið (“the lake”) in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, back in June 2010. Jon Hestoy here to the right, President of the Faroese Swimming Federation, and to the left Jón Bjarnason, coach of Pál Joensen, helping young…
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Pál Joensen on Trans World Sport
Woohoo … It is ready, the IMG / Trans World Sport feature on Pál Joensen from last August, also featuring the Faroese prime minister, our federation president, his now former coach Jón Bjarnason, hardcore open water swimmer Cecilia Wigant Eysturdal, and the memory of Alexander Dale Oen ! :-)