Rúnar Kárason

Rúnar Kárason

Rúnar Kárason at the Schlecker Cup 2010
Player information
birthday	May 24, 1988
place of birth	Reykjavík , Iceland
citizenship	Icelandic
height	1.93 m
Playing position	Back right
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Ribe-Esbjerg HH
Jersey number	5
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1994-2009	Fram Reykjavík
2009-2011	Foxes Berlin
2011–2012	Bergischer HC
2012-2013	TV Großwallstadt
2013-2013	Rhine-Neckar lion
2013-2018	TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
2018–	Ribe-Esbjerg HH
National team
	Games (goals)
Iceland	84 (206)
Status: July 24, 2018

Rúnar Kárason (born May 24, 1988 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic handball player .

Career

Rúnar Kárason played for the Icelandic club Fram Reykjavík since he was six . From there he went to the Füchsen Berlin in the handball Bundesliga in 2009 . With the foxes, Rúnar Kárason got a two-year contract, although he was previously courted by Danish and Spanish clubs. From September 2010 Rúnar Kárason had a second game right for the Bergisch HC . In the 2011/12 season he then played exclusively for the BHC; then he went to TV Großwallstadt and, after it was relegated from the Bundesliga at the end of the 2012/13 season, he moved to the Rhein-Neckar Löwen , where he signed a one-year contract. On November 19, 2013 he switched to league competitor TSV Hannover-Burgdorf with immediate effect, where he initially received a contract until the end of the season, which was extended by two years in February 2014. In the summer of 2018 he joined the Danish first division club Ribe-Esbjerg HH .

Rúnar Kárason also plays in the Icelandic national team . In the 2008/09 season he was elected to the All-Star Team in Iceland . At the European Championships in 2012 and 2014 he reached 10th and 5th place respectively.

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2009/10	Foxes Berlin	Bundesliga	34	49	0	49
2010/11	Foxes Berlin	Bundesliga	1	1	0	1
2011/12	Bergischer HC	Bundesliga	28	87	0	87
2012/13	TV Großwallstadt	Bundesliga	10	44	0	44
2013/14	Rhine-Neckar lion	Bundesliga	12	17th	0	17th
2013/14	TSV Hannover-Burgdorf	Bundesliga	13	36	0	36
2014/15	TSV Hannover-Burgdorf	Bundesliga	25th	83	18th	65
2015/16	TSV Hannover-Burgdorf	Bundesliga	28	65	17th	84
2016/17	TSV Hannover-Burgdorf	Bundesliga	33	63	10	53
2017/18	TSV Hannover-Burgdorf	Bundesliga	30th	30th	5	25th
2009-2018	total	Bundesliga	214	475	50	425

Web links

Commons : Rúnar Kárason  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rúnar Kárason on the website of the Rhein-Neckar Löwen
• Runar karason in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Kárason's Bundesliga statistics
• Lost his head Tagesspiegel from November 24, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla
2. ↑ handball-world.com: Runar Karason on his time in Berlin from October 22, 2009
3. ↑ Foxes Berlin: Runar Karason becomes a fox! In: Handball-News.info from December 15, 2008
4. ^ Foxes Berlin: Runar Bult back in Berlin, Karason becomes Bergischer Löwe. In: handball-world.com from September 9, 2010
5. ↑ handball-world.com: Rhein-Neckar Löwen get Karason as a backup for Petersson on June 12, 2013, accessed on June 12, 2013
6. ↑ handball-world.com: Hannover-Burgdorf extended with Rúnar Kárason from February 17, 2014, accessed on February 17, 2014
7. ↑ rehh.dk: Runar Karason skifter til Ribe-Esbjerg HH of October 17, 2017, accessed on July 24, 2018
8. ↑ www.handball-world.com Neu-Kieler Palmarsson leaves Iceland with numerous awards from May 26, 2009, accessed on January 27, 2015

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 .