Pál cruises to victory at Danish Open

With Danish rival Mads Glæsner having scratched the 1500 meter freestyle, Pál Joensen of the Faroe Isles cruised to a dominant victory at the Danish Open tonight, in a time of 15:21.86 ahead of Denmark’s Anders Lie in 15:40.47 and Viktor B. Bromer in 16:01.71. Pál still trains all but except a few weeks a year in a 4-laned 25 meter pool in his hometown Vágur, on the most remote island of the Faroe Islands, all together only 50.000 inhabitants in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. Results here