Ólafur Stefánsson

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Ólafur Stefánsson
Ólafur Stefánsson

Ólafur Stefánsson on February 20, 2008 in the Kölnarena

Player information
birthday 3rd July 1973
place of birth Reykjavík , Iceland
citizenship IcelandersIcelanders Icelandic
height 1.96 m
Playing position Back right
Throwing hand Left
Club information
society Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1996 IcelandIceland Valur Reykjavík
1996-1998 GermanyGermany HSG LTV / WSV Wuppertal
1998-2003 GermanyGermany SC Magdeburg Gladiators
2003-2009 SpainSpain BM Ciudad Real
2009-2011 GermanyGermany Rhine-Neckar lion
2011–2012 DenmarkDenmark AG København
2013-2013 QatarQatar Lekhwiya Sports Club Doha
2015-2015 DenmarkDenmark KIF Kolding
National team
Debut on October 17, 1992 in Reykjavík
against EgyptEgypt Egypt
  Games (goals)
IcelandIceland Iceland 330 (1570)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2013-2014 IcelandIceland Valur Reykjavík
2015-2016 IcelandIceland Iceland (assistant coach)
2019– IcelandIceland Valur Reykjavík (Youth)

As of August 27, 2019

Ólafur Indriði Stefánsson (born July 3, 1973 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic handball coach and a former handball player who played for the Icelandic national team. The left-hander usually played in the right back space . He is considered a “living legend” in Iceland and is the bearer of the Icelandic Grand Knight's Cross .

Player career

societies

Ólafur Stefánsson in a Champions League game against VfL Gummersbach

After Ólafur won three Icelandic championships with Valur Reykjavík , he moved to German second division LTV Wuppertal in 1996 , with whom he made promotion to the first division in the first season . After another season, he moved to league rivals SC Magdeburg in 1998 , where he played until 2003. With Magdeburg, Ólafur Stefansson won several titles, the greatest success being winning the EHF Champions League in 2002. After moving to BM Ciudad Real , Ólafur was inducted into the Magdeburg Hall of Fame .

From 2003 to 2009 he played for BM Ciudad Real and won the Champions League with this club in 2006, 2008 and 2009. In the 2007/08 season he was top scorer with 96 goals together with Kiril Lazarov . Stefansson is also the most successful final scorer in the history of the Champions League with 68 goals.

For the 2009/10 season Ólafur moved to the German handball club Rhein-Neckar Löwen . After two seasons with the Lions he went to the Danish club AG København . From January 1, 2013 Ólafur Stefánsson played in Qatar at the Lekhwiya Sports Club in the capital Doha . With Lekhwiya he won the championship in 2013. Then he ended his career. In March 2015 he made his comeback in the EHF Champions League with the Danish first division club KIF Kolding .

National team

In the Icelandic national team, Ólafur played 330 international matches, in which he scored 1,570 goals. On June 7, 2014, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson was surpassed as Icelandic record goal scorer. At the European Handball Championship in Sweden in 2002 he was the top scorer .

At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , he led his team to the greatest success in Icelandic sports history, the silver medal. For this he was honored by the President of the Republic with the Grand Knight's Cross on August 27, and his teammates received the Knight's Cross. In the summer of 2012 he again took part in the Olympic Games in London . After losing in the quarterfinals, he ended his international career. When Iceland had to complain about a few losses in the right back space in preparation for the 2013 World Cup, Ólafur Stefánsson was persuaded to make a comeback. After an old knee injury broke out, he also had to cancel his participation in the World Cup.

Bundesliga record

season society Division Games Gates 7 meters Field gates
1997-1998 HSG LTV / WSV Wuppertal Bundesliga 28 139 34 105
1998-2003 SC Magdeburg Bundesliga 164 897 250 647
2009-2010 Rhine-Neckar lion Bundesliga 32 110 40 70
2010-2011 Rhine-Neckar lion Bundesliga 33 99 11 88
1996-2011 Bundesliga total 257 1245 335 910

Coaching career

Ólafur Stefánsson coached the Icelandic first division team Valur Reykjavík in the 2013/14 season. From April 2015 he worked as assistant coach for the Icelandic national team. He has been a junior coach at Valur Reykjavík since summer 2019.

Others

His brother Jón Arnór Stefánsson plays for the Icelandic national basketball team.

successes

Valur Reykjavík

  • Icelandic champion: 1993, 1994, 1995

SC Magdeburg

BM Ciudad Real

AG København

Lekhwiya Sports Club Doha

  • Qatar Champion 2013

National team

Web links

Commons : Ólafur Stefánsson  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ timarit.is: Handknattleikur from January 17, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2019
  2. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla
  3. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: opponents team LTV Wuppertal 1997/98 , accessed on May 26, 2019
  4. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: opponents squad SC Magdeburg 1998/99 , accessed on May 26, 2019
  5. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: Opponents BM Ciudad Real 2004/05 , accessed on May 26, 2019
  6. ↑ www.handball-world.com Champions League final scorer: Rutenka now number three from June 4, 2013, accessed on June 18, 2014
  7. ↑ handballmagazin.com accessed on June 18, 2014
  8. ↑ www.handball-world.com, December 7, 2012
  9. ↑ www.mbl.is, April 23, 2013
  10. ↑ www.handball-world.com Official: KIF Copenhagen strengthens itself with Stefansson from March 10, 2015, accessed on March 10, 2015
  11. ↑ R. Seele: Grand Knight of Handball. In: FAZ of May 24, 2009, accessed on June 18, 2014
  12. ↑ www.handball-world.com: Iceland moves world star to comeback at the world championship , accessed on January 4, 2013
  13. ↑ www.handball-world.com: WM-Aus for Olafur Stefansson , accessed on January 4, 2013
  14. ↑ www.valur.is: Ólafur Stefánsson tekur við Val , accessed on November 15, 2013
  15. ↑ Ólafur Stefánsson í frá fRii þjálfun til áramóta ( Memento of 23 September 2014 Web archive archive.today )
  16. ↑ www.visir.is: Ólafur Stefánsson verður aðstoðarþjálfari karlalandsliðsins , accessed on January 10, 2016
  17. ↑ handball-world.news: Olafur Stefansson returns to Valur Reykjavik , accessed on August 27, 2019
  18. ↑ www.mbl.is: Jón Arnór Evrópumeistari , accessed on June 10, 2018
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 Ólafur Stefánsson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stefánsson, Ólafur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Icelandic handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Reykjavík , Iceland