Faroese distance runner
Bjørk Herup Olsen (born 2 October 1991) is a Faroese athlete. She is until now (2012) the best female middle and long distance runner in the Faroe Islands. Herup Olsen has won several Danish Junior Championships[1] and holds several Faroese records. She was the first Faroese woman, who ran 3000 m under 10 minutes.[2] Bjørk is running for the Faroese club Bragdið and for the Danish club Helsingør Idrætsforening
.[3] She signed her letter of intent to run track at East Carolina University.[4]
Personal records
- 800 meter: 2:20.01 Gothenburg, Sweden 4 July 2010[5] (Faroese record)[6]
- 1500 meter: 4:37.83 Gothenburg, Sweden 3 July 2010[7] (Faroese record)
- 3000 meter: 9:59,91 Pennsylvania, USA 28 January 2012[8] (Faroese record)
- 5000 meters: 17.12,75 in Ohio, USA February 2012[9] (Faroese record)
- 10,000 meters: 36:58,27 North Carolina 2012 (Faroese record)[10]
- 1500 meter - Indoors: 4.38,04 Reykjavík International Games, Iceland 17 January 2010[11]
- 1 mile - Indoors: 5:19,35 Reykjavík 20 January 2008
- 3000 meter - Indoors: 10.02,47 Skive, Denmark 6. marts 2010 (Faroese indoor record)[12]
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