Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson
Player information | |
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birthday | July 30, 1999 |
place of birth | Reykjavík , Iceland |
citizenship | Icelandic |
height | 1.91 m |
Playing position | Back center |
Back left | |
Throwing hand | right |
Club information | |
society | SC Magdeburg |
Jersey number | 10 |
Clubs as active | |
from ... to | society |
–2018 | FH Hafnarfjörður |
2018-2020 | THW Kiel |
2020– | SC Magdeburg |
National team | |
Debut on | October 26, 2017 |
against | Sweden |
Games (goals) | |
Iceland | 23 (31) |
As of January 23, 2020 |
Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson (born July 30, 1999 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic handball player . He is under contract with the German club SC Magdeburg .
Career
Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson played in Iceland for FH Hafnarfjörður , for whom he scored four goals in the 2017/18 EHF Cup . In the summer of 2018, the 1.91-meter-tall backcourt player moved to the German handball league for THW Kiel, where he signed a three-year contract. In 2019, he won the DHB Cup and the EHF Cup with THW Kiel . In January 2020 he moved to SC Magdeburg .
At the U-18 European Championship in Croatia in 2016 , Gísli was the most successful Icelandic shooter with 53 goals. On October 26, 2017, he made his debut in the 31:29 win against Sweden in the Icelandic men's national team .
family
Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson's mother is the politician and former Icelandic international Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir . His father Kristján Arason played 245 international matches for the Icelandic national handball team, in which he scored 1,123 goals, and played in the handball Bundesliga at VfL Gummersbach , with which he won the German championship in 1988.
Web links
- Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson on the THW Kiel website
- Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.hsi.is A landslið karla l 28 manna hópur fyrir EM2020 accessed on December 15, 2019
- ↑ a b c d e THW Kiel secures Arason's son Kristjánsson. In: handball-world.news. December 6, 2017, accessed June 23, 2018 .
- ^ SC Magdeburg signed Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson from Kiel. In: handball-world.news. January 23, 2020, accessed January 23, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Icelandic handball player |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1999 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Reykjavík , Iceland |