Tag: Pál Joensen
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CC photo #599: First day of training at BCN2013
Just a photo from our first day of training at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Pál Joensen and coach Shannon Rollason in picture.
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CC photo #584: Pál and coach after the BCN2013 men’s 1500 free
Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen and Denmark’s National Training Center head coach Shannon Rollason after the men’s 1500 freestyle final at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Going through split times and evaluating the race. Pál was seventh in both the 800 and the 1500, we were hoping for more but are happy with…
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CC photo #582: Team FAR at BCN2013
The very last photo we took in Palau Sant Jordi at the 15th FINA World Championships. From left to right Birita Debes (backstroke), Rókur à Jákupsstovu (team leader), Pál Joensen (distance crawl), Bartal Hestoy (medley), Poula Øssursdóttir Mohr (butterfly) and Kristian Martin Joensen (coach). Photographer is Jon Hestoy, president of Faroe Island’s Swimming Association.
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Full House
With Bartal Hestoy setting a new Faroese record in the 400 IM this morning, we have now all three universality swimmers setting Faroese records, and Pál Joensen qualifying for two finals. That is a full house! :-) Mission accomplished, the party has begun. If Pál should win a medal, it will be a ball.
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CC photo #580: Second final for Pál at BCN2013
Faroe Islands’ Pál Joensen managed a time of 14:57.76 and fifth in the men’s 1500 meter freestyle this morning at the 15th World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Final tomorrow!
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So, what happened to Pál Joensen?
A promising 7:50.81 and 6th in the prelims, and then 7:52.57 and 7th in the final. If you understand Swedish then you are in luck, because he explained to SVT right after the race. Problem simply that he decided to not follow the charge the first few laps, and then realized after a few hundred…
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Moment of truth for Pál Joensen (FAR)
How has it affected Pál Joensen to move from home in the Faroe Isles, to his own place in big town Copenhagen, and switching coach first to Paulus Wildeboer and then Shannon Rollason? I guess we will see soon, personally I’m taking this as the best time to be experimenting, if ever before Rio 2016.