Guðmundur Guðmundsson (handball coach)
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 .
Web links
- Squad of TSV Bayer Dormagen 2000/2001
- Manager profile of Guðmundur Guðmundsson
- Guðmundur Guðmundsson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla
- ↑ sport.moi.is: Ferill Guðmundar Þórðar Guðmundssonar, verðandi landsliðsþjálfara Dana ( Memento from April 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 16, 2017
- ↑ timarit.is: Víkingur íslandsmeistari , accessed on April 16, 2017
- ↑ timarit.is: Stórsigur í síðasta leiknum , accessed on April 16, 2017
- ↑ a b icelandmonitor.mbl.is: Iceland's most popular handball trainer to train in Bahrain national team , accessed April 19, 2017
- ↑ Eleven coaches were in charge in 16 years. NGZ online, May 26, 2011.
- ↑ Financial Times Deutschland online, August 11, 2010 ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Homepage of the Rhein Neckar Löwen
- ↑ Iceland has a new national coach
- ↑ Gudmundur Gudmundsson ny dansk landstræner , accessed on 14 October 2013
- ↑ handball-world.com: With immediate effect: Gudmundsson leaves, Jacobsen takes over a coaching position in Denmark , accessed on March 6, 2017
- ↑ gdnonline.com: Bahrain go down fighting in Asian Men's Handball Championship final , accessed February 7, 2018
- ↑ mbl.is: Guðmundur getur komið okkur í Fremdstu röð , accessed on February 7, 2018
- ↑ handball-world.news: Gudmundur Gudmundsson will be the new trainer at MT Melsungen , accessed on February 26, 2020
personal data | |
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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 |