Guðmundur Guðmundsson (handball coach)

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Guðmundur Guðmundsson (2017)

Guðmundur Þórður Guðmundsson (born December 23, 1960 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic handball coach and former player of the Icelandic men's national handball team .

As a player, Guðmundur scored 356 goals in 230 international matches for the Icelandic selection. With Iceland he took part in the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988 . At club level, Guðmundur Guðmundsson ran for Víkingur Reykjavík , with whom he won the Icelandic championship several times.

Guðmundur Guðmundsson initially coached the Icelandic clubs Víkingur Reykjavík, UMF Afturelding and Fram Reykjavík . From summer 1999 to March 2001 Guðmundur was the coach of TSV Bayer Dormagen . Under his leadership, Iceland won the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . Until the beginning of 2010 he trained alongside the Icelandic national team for the Danish first division club GOG Svendborg TGI . At the 2010 European Championships in Austria , Iceland won the bronze medal. In the so-called “small final” in Vienna, the team defeated Poland, third in the World Cup, with 29:26 (18:10).

In April 2010 he became sports director at the Danish club AG Copenhagen . In August 2010 he also took over responsibility for all subsequent player transfers at the Rhein-Neckar Löwen as a member of the club's sports management. On September 23, 2010 he took over the coaching position at the Rhein-Neckar Löwen as the successor to Kent-Harry Andersson and Ola Lindgren . On May 19, 2013 he won the EHF European Cup with the Rhein-Neckar Löwen .

After the 2012 Olympic Games, Guðmundur ended his job as Icelandic national coach. From July 2014 he was the Danish national coach . Under his leadership, Denmark won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In March 2017, he resigned as the Danish national coach. In April 2017 he took over the men's national handball team from Bahrain . Under his leadership, Bahrain won the silver medal at the 2018 Asian Cup . Subsequently, Guðmundur Guðmundsson took over again as coach of the Icelandic national team. Since February 2020 he has also been training the German Bundesliga club MT Melsungen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla
  2. ↑ sport.moi.is: Ferill Guðmundar Þórðar Guðmundssonar, verðandi landsliðsþjálfara Dana ( Memento from April 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 16, 2017
  3. ↑ timarit.is: Víkingur íslandsmeistari , accessed on April 16, 2017
  4. ↑ timarit.is: Stórsigur í síðasta leiknum , accessed on April 16, 2017
  5. ↑ a b icelandmonitor.mbl.is: Iceland's most popular handball trainer to train in Bahrain national team , accessed April 19, 2017
  6. ↑ Eleven coaches were in charge in 16 years. NGZ online, May 26, 2011.
  7. ↑ Financial Times Deutschland online, August 11, 2010 ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ^ Homepage of the Rhein Neckar Löwen
  9. ↑ Iceland has a new national coach
  10. ↑ Gudmundur Gudmundsson ny dansk landstræner , accessed on 14 October 2013
  11. ↑ handball-world.com: With immediate effect: Gudmundsson leaves, Jacobsen takes over a coaching position in Denmark , accessed on March 6, 2017
  12. ↑ gdnonline.com: Bahrain go down fighting in Asian Men's Handball Championship final , accessed February 7, 2018
  13. ↑ mbl.is: Guðmundur getur komið okkur í Fremdstu röð , accessed on February 7, 2018
  14. ↑ handball-world.news: Gudmundur Gudmundsson will be the new trainer at MT Melsungen , accessed on February 26, 2020
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 .
personal data
SURNAME Guðmundur Guðmundsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guðmundur Þórður Guðmundsson; Gudmundur Thordur Gudmundsson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic handball coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík , Iceland