club birth_place weight nationality height birth_date image article_title strokes
aalborg svømmeklub vágur , suðuroy 75 kg lb faroe islands / denmark 1.80 0 10 december 1990 pál joensen 2014.jpg pál joensen
 freestyle
pál joensen

pál joensen -lrb- born 10 december 1990 -rrb- is a faroese elite swimmer .
he was born in vágur , suðuroy , faroe islands .
in august 2012 he moved to copenhagen , where he swims at the danish national training centre .
he is now swimming for aalborg svømmeklub and for the faroe islands .
earlier , before moving to denmark , he was training in a short pool 25 m , because there is no 50 m pool in the faroe islands yet -lrb- as of december 2012 -rrb- .
he was training with susvim -lrb- susvim is short for suðuroyar svimjifelag , which means suduroy swimming club -rrb- .
his trainer in the faroe islands was jón bjarnason .
in august 2010 , joensen won silver in the men 's 1500 m freestyle at the 2010 european aquatics championships in budapest with the time 14:56.90 , which was new nordic record .
in 2011 , at 2011 world aquatics championships in shanghai he swam with the second best time of all the heats and made it for the final in the men 's 800 m freestyle .
he set a new nordic record with the time 7:45.55 .
one of joensen 's biggest dreams was to swim at the summer olympics , and that dream did come true .
he was competing at the 2012 summer olympics for denmark in three events : 400 metre freestyle , 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay and 1500 metre freestyle .
in december 2012 , he won his first medal at a world swimming championship , when he took silver in the men 's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2012 fina world swimming championships -lrb- 25 m -rrb- in istanbul .
it was the first medal for his country , the faroe islands , which was won at a world swimming championship .
joensen holds many of the national swimming records of his country ; and these records are not only in freestyle .
on short course he holds most of the records in breaststroke , butterfly and individual medley too .
