Tag: Jon Hestoy
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CC photo #215: A smug looking president at Roma09
Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Association, at the Rome 2009 World Aquatic Championships. Tomorrow he’ll be at the London Aquatics Centre, watching Pál Joensen try to qualify for the men’s 1500 freestyle final.
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CC photo #197: Our president greeting Magnus at FM 2012
Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Association, congratulating young Magnus Jákupsson (1994) at the 2012 Faroese (Short Course) Swimming Championships. The occasion that Magnus had won our highest-ranked ‘starred golden pin’ for his Faroese record of 55.94 in the 100 IM. Magnus has been a busy man these past 12 days, setting 7 Faroese…
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3 interesting talks at the NEG 2012 Speaker’s Corner event
So at the just-for-fun Speaker’s Corner event on Friday night at Hotel Føroyar, our federation president Jon Hestoy got into a mine-is-bigger-than-yours competition with Ilkka Keskinen from Finland and Hafþór Gudmundsson from Iceland, speakers at the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching, on how many 5-6th grade kids could swim in their countries. Unfortunately…
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CC photo #67: A president and his champion
Pál Joensen going out hard in the Budapest 2010 European Championships 800 freestyle prelims, using same tactics as when winning silver in the 1500 the day before. Guy standing is Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese swimming federation, well placed in the VVIP seating area (yup, those are two V’s for Very Very). Sorry for…