SUNDFÉLAG HAFNARFJARÐAR

SH wins the most titles and medals of this year‘s Icelandic championships (14 gold – 20 silver – 8 bronze), besides many personal best times, records and qualifying standards.

Jóhanna Elín Guðmundsdóttir and Aron Örn Stefánsson won each 3 individual Icelandic titles, followed by Anton Svein McKee and Predrag Milos with two gold and youngster Daði Björnsson with one title. The men‘s relay team gained two more titles in Icelandic record time, and the women‘s team won their title over 4x100m fjórsund.

Predrag Milos was the first male EM-qualifyer (50m skriðsund), joined a little later by Anton Sveinn McKee (100m bringusund).

Cuts for the Youth Olympic Games in Argentina (October) were established by Jóhanna Elín Guðmundsdóttir and Katarína Róbertsdóttir, while Adele Alexandra Pálsson and Daði Björnsson qualified for the Nordic Youth Championships (NÆM) this summer.

The two Icelandic records and titles were quite exciting. The 4x100m fjórsund record was „smashed“ with ca. 5 seconds improvement by Kolbeinn Hrafnkelsson, Anton Sveinn McKee, Predrag Milos and Aron Örn Stefánsson on now 3.50.57.
And a very tight new record by just 0.01 seconds over 4x100m skriðsund with Kolbeinn, Aron Örn, Predrag and Ólafur Árdal Sigurðsson.

Daði Björnsson improved twice during his way to the top in 200m bringusund the Icelandic age group record (drengja 13-14 years) on now 2.30.24.
And as the leading swimmer of his team Birnir Freyr Hálfdánarsson performed a new Icelandic age group record for 11-12 year olds over 200m skriðsund in now 2.19.40, which lead at the end to a new age group record of the whole relay in 10.20.35. He was also a part of the other two new age group records (sveina 11-12 years) of the relay team in 4x100m skrið and fjórsund. The members of the relay teams were besides Birnir Bergur Fáfnir Bjarnason, Andri Már Kristjánsson, Björn Yngvi Guðmundsson and Adam Leó Tómasson.

Aron Örn Stefánsson was the point highest male performer of the championships with 790 FINA points for his 100m skriðsund in 0.50.73.

Please find the list below with all medal winners and qualifyers for the international events.

101 new personal best times were set by 117 races, a great quota. The largest improvements showed Símon Elías Statkevicius in 50m skriðsund (0.27.54) and Aþena Jónsdóttir over 100m skriðsund (1.03.96).