Einar Örn Jónsson

Einar Örn Jónsson

Player information
Nickname	"Örni"
birthday	December 28, 1976
place of birth	Reykjavík , Iceland
citizenship	Icelandic
height	1.83 m
Playing position	Right winger
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-1995	Valur Reykjavík
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1995-2000	Valur Reykjavík
2000-2002	Haukar Hafnarfjörður
2002-2005	SG Wallau / Massenheim
2005-2006	CB Torrevieja
2006-2008	GWD Minden
2008-2011	Haukar Hafnarfjörður
National team
Debut on	January 6, 2001
against	France in Hafnarfjörður
	Games (goals)
Iceland	122 (253)
As of April 9, 2017

Einar Örn Jónsson (born December 28, 1976 in Reykjavík ) is a former Icelandic handball player. The right winger played in Germany for SG Wallau / Massenheim and GWD Minden in the Bundesliga .

career

Einar Örn Jónsson started playing handball in his Icelandic homeland with Valur Reykjavík and played from 2000 until his move to Germany in 2002 to SG Wallau / Massenheim with Haukar Hafnarfjörður . Since Wallau / Massenheim did not receive a license for the 2005/06 Bundesliga season due to a bankruptcy application , he moved to CB Torrevieja in the Spanish ASOBAL league and returned to Germany a year later and signed a two-year contract with GWD Minden . After the end of his contract he played again for Haukar Hafnarfjörður and ended his handball career in 2011. With Haukar he won the Icelandic championship in 2009 and 2010.

With the Icelandic national team , Einar took part in four world championships ( 2001 , 2003 , 2005 and 2007 ), two European championships ( 2002 and 2004 ) and the 2004 Olympic Games . However, he could not win a medal during this time. He made a total of 122 international matches in which he scored 253 goals.

Private

Einar Örn Jónsson studied Politics and Communication Science at the University of Iceland and started working as a sports reporter for the Icelandic TV station RÚV after his handball career . He has also been the head of sports there since October 2014.

On December 31, 2002 he married his partner Birna Ósk Hansdóttir. The couple now live in Reykjavík with their daughter Elísabet Ása and their son Agnar Daði .

Web links

• Einar Orn Jónsson in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Einar Örn Jónsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics of the Icelandic handball association (A international men’s games)
2. ↑ berliner-zeitung.de: Icelanders to Wallau . May 22, 2002, as of April 9, 2017.
3. ↑ haukar.is: Haukar Íslandsmeistarar 2008/2009 , accessed on April 9, 2017
4. ↑ mbl.is: Haukar Íslandsmeistarar í handknattleik karla , accessed on April 8, 2018

Note: Icelanders are referred to by their first name or first and last name, but not just their surname. Further information can be found under Icelandic personal name .