Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson

Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson

Player information
birthday	January 22, 1965
place of birth
citizenship	Icelandic
height	1.90 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-0000	Breiðabliks
0000-0000	FH
0000-1999	Valur Reykjavík
1999-2001	HSG Nordhorn
2001-2003	Papillon Conversano
2003-2005	SG Kronau / Östringen
2005–	UMF afturelding
National team
Debut on	1986
against	Soviet Union
	Games (goals)
Iceland	407 (0)
As of January 21, 2014

Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson (born January 22, 1965 ) is a former Icelandic handball player .

Career

Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson played in his home country with Breiðabliks, FH and Valur Reykjavík . In 1999, the 1.90-meter handball goalkeeper to the German Bundesliga newly promoted HSG Nordhorn with which he in the season 2000/01 at the Final Four of the DHB Cup participated. From 2001 he was at the Italian club Papillon Coversano between the posts, with whom he played in the EHF Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup and won the championship in 2003. He then returned to Germany, where he joined SG Kronau / Östringen , with which at the end of the 2003/04 season he was relegated to the 2nd handball Bundesliga . After the following season, in which the immediate promotion succeeded, he went back to Iceland. There he signed a two-year contract with UMF Afturelding .

Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson took part with the Icelandic national team in 1988 , 1992 and 2004 in the Olympic Games . He played 407 internationals for Iceland, making him the goalkeeper with the most international appearances in indoor handball and, after Jackson Richardson (417 appearances for France), the only handball player in the world with more than 400 international appearances.

Web links

• Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson on the website of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen
• Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson on the HSG Nordhorn website
• Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} visir.is: Guðmundur fékk heiðursskiptingu , accessed on December 14, 2013
2. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla
3. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: Opponent team HSG Nordhorn 1999/2000 season , accessed on September 9, 2019
4. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: Opponents HSG Nordhorn season 2001/2002 , accessed on September 9, 2019
5. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: opponents team SG Kronau / Östringen season 2003/2004 , accessed on September 9, 2019
6. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: opponents team SG Kronau / Östringen season 2005/2006 , accessed on September 9, 2019
7. ↑ visir.is: Guðmundur ver mark Mosfellinga , accessed on December 14, 2013

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 .