Hlynur Bæringsson

Hlynur Bæringsson
Player information
Full name	Hlynur Elías Bæringsson
birthday	July 6, 1982
place of birth	Stykkishólmsbær, Iceland
size	201 cm
position	Power forward
Club information
society	UMF Stjarnan
league	Úrvalsdeild karla
Clubs as active
1997–2002 UMF Skallagrímur 2002–2005 UMF Snæfell 2005–2006 Aris Leeuwarden 2006–2010 UMF Snæfell 2010–2016 Sundsvall Dragons Since 2016 UMF Stjarnan 0
National team 1
Since 02000	Iceland	111
1 As of August 31, 2017

Hlynur Elías Bæringsson (born July 6, 1982 in Stykkishólmsbær ) is an Icelandic basketball player . Hlynur Bæringsson played in the Icelandic league for Skallagrímur and Snæfell for a long time before winning the Icelandic championship for the first time after three runners-up with Snæfell in 2010. Then Hlynur Bæringsson, who had already played one season in the Dutch Eredivisie , moved abroad again and immediately won the Swedish championship in 2011 with the Sundsvall Dragons, for which he played a total of six years before returning to his home country. With the Icelandic national basketball team , he took part in the only two European Championship finals in 2015 and 2017 , for which the Icelanders could qualify up to and including 2017.

Career

Hlynur Bæringsson made his debut in the Icelandic top division Úrvalsdeild karla at the young age of 15 for Skallagrímur. Almost two years later he was named the best young player of the 1998/99 season. His club team, however, consistently placed in the lower half of the table and usually missed the play-offs for the championship, so that Hlynur Bæringsson finally left the club from Borganes in 2002 and moved to the newly promoted Snæfell, who was located a few kilometers further north in his home town . Here Hlynur Bæringsson was definitely one of the best players in the Icelandic league and, after having already achieved this once for Skallagrímur, was voted among the top five players in the Icelandic league three more times in a row. With Snæfell, there was finally also team success. In the 2003/04 season the team reached the final series for the first time after first place in the main round, which, however, was lost after only one win in four games against defending champion Keflavík ÍF with, among other things, the later long-time Bundesliga player Derrick Allen . A year later, Snæfell reached second in the main round behind Keflavík again in the final series, which was lost again with the same result as last year.

For the 2005/06 season Hlynur Bæringsson moved together with his teammate Sigurður Þorvaldsson abroad and played in the Netherlands for Aris from Leeuwarden in the Eredivisie . Here achieved Hlynur Bæringsson a double-double on average to almost twelve points and eleven rebounds per game and became the " all-star invited Game" of the Dutch league, which he shared with, among others Sergerio Gipson , Darnell Hinson and John Turek in the north selection could win. Nevertheless, last year's seventh in the table Aris reached tenth and penultimate place in the table at the end of the season after only five wins of the season in 26 games, and only because BV Noordkop from Den Helder withdrew its team from the game at the end of 2005 and was placed in last place. Despite his individually good performance, Hlynur Bæringsson returned to Snæfell together with Sigurður Þorvaldsson, who also signed the later naturalized Justin Shouse, who had previously only played in the German regional league with the Bergheim Bandits and the second Icelandic division. Together they won in the second year after returning after winning the third title in the “Company Cup” with the Icelandic Cup competition in 2008, the first important title for the club. In the championship one moved again into the final series, which was lost again against Keflavík without a win. Hlynur Bæringsson was named the best domestic player in the league for the first time in 2008, which he succeeded again two years later when Snæfell was able to defeat Keflavík in five games in the fourth clash in the final series, with the fifth and decisive game at 105: 69 very clear Keflavík was won. After winning the championship for the first time, Hlynur Bæringsson went abroad one more time.

For the 2010/11 season, Hlynur Bæringsson moved to the Swedish basket league for the Dragons from Sundsvall , where his compatriot Jakob Sigurðarson was already playing. After the Dragons won the Swedish Championship for the first time in 2009, they did so again in the 2010/11 season. As in previous years, Hlynur Bæringsson scored a double-double in points and rebounds per game in the Icelandic league. After being supported by compatriots like Pavel Ermolinskij for one season and Ægir Steinarsson in the following years , this success could not be continued, although Hlynur Bæringsson continued to achieve double-doubles on average and was the best rebounder in the league in 2013 and in 2013 and 2014 was awarded the best defender of the Basketligan. In 2013 the Dragons reached the final series as the main round first and became runner-up after losing the final series in six games against the former runner-up Södertälje Kings . After Jakob Sigurðarson and Ægir Steinarsson had left the Sundsvall Dragons in 2015, Hlynur Bæringsson finally ended his time in Sweden in 2016 after the Dragons went bankrupt and returned to his Icelandic homeland, where he worked for Stjarnan. At the club from Garðabær , a suburb of the capital, he first played one last season with Justin Shouse, who had played there since 2008. As in his two seasons as MVP of the league and as before in the Swedish basketball league, Hlynur Bæringsson was once again named the best defender of the season.

In the past, the Icelandic national team had only participated in smaller final tournaments such as the so-called Division B of FIBA Europe and the games of the small states of Europe . In the summer of 2014, the selection in the European Championship qualification was able to prevail somewhat surprisingly against the British national basketball team and qualify for the first time for a FIBA ​​finals of the best European national teams. At the European Championship finals even a year later in 2015, the national team played their first ever final game in the Berlin Mercedes-Benz Arena against host Germany , which was just lost at 65:71. There was also no victory in the following four preliminary round games, with the Turkish national basketball team needing extra time to defeat the Icelanders 111: 102. After the early elimination at the premiere, the Icelandic selection was able to qualify again in the European Championship qualifying summer 2016 , when they prevailed against Cyprus and the Swiss national team , whose only qualifying victory was against the Icelanders. At the 2017 European Championship finals , Hlynur Bæringsson is now trying in the autumn of his career to achieve at least the first final victory in an Icelandic selection with his teammates.

Web links

Commons : Hlynur Bæringsson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Hlynur Bæringsson - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A-landslid karla: Leikjafjöldi leikmanna. KKÍ , accessed August 31, 2017 (Icelandic, list of record-breaking national players). 
2. ↑ Besti ungi leikmaðurinn. KKÍ , accessed August 31, 2017 (Icelandic, Excellent Players List). 
3. ↑ Úrvalslið. KKÍ , accessed August 31, 2017 (Icelandic, Excellent Players List). 
4. ↑ EREDIVISIE 2005-2006 Basketball League HOLLAND: Dutch FEB All-Star Gala 2006. Eurobasket.com, accessed on August 31, 2017 (English, season summary with a short report on the All-Star game). 
5. ↑ Besti leikmaðurinn. KKÍ , accessed August 31, 2017 (Icelandic, Excellent Players List). 
6. ↑ Anna Beijron, Eva Harström: Sundsvall Dragons försatta i bankruptcy. Sveriges Television , May 6, 2016, accessed September 1, 2017 (Swedish). 
7. ↑ Besti varnarmaðurinn. KKÍ , accessed August 31, 2017 (Icelandic, Excellent Players List). 
8. ↑ Marc-Oliver Robbers: First victory with tremors. Spox.com , September 5, 2015, accessed August 31, 2017 (Match Report). 
9. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 2015 EuroBasket - Box Score - Game: TURKEY vs ICELAND (Group B). FIBA , accessed on August 31, 2017 (English, game statistics). 

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 .