Rúnar Sigtryggsson

Rúnar Sigtryggsson

Player information
birthday	April 7, 1972
place of birth	Akureyri , Iceland
citizenship	Icelandic
height	1.94 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2000	Fresh on Göppingen
2000-2002	Haukar Hafnarfjörður
2002-2003	BM Ciudad Real
2003-2004	SG Wallau / Massenheim
2004-2005	ThSV Eisenach
National team
	Games (goals)
Iceland	118 (105)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2004-2005	ThSV Eisenach
2005-2010	Akureyri
2012-2016	EHV Aue
2016-2017	HBW Balingen-Weilstetten
Status: October 24, 2017

Rúnar Sigtryggsson (born April 7, 1972 in Akureyri ) is an Icelandic handball coach and former handball player .

Career

Rúnar Sigtryggsson played in the 2nd handball Bundesliga for Frisch Auf Göppingen . In 2000 he moved to Haukar Hafnarfjörður , with whom he became Icelandic champion. In 2002, the 1.94 meter tall and 95 kilogram left backcourt player went to the Spanish league ASOBAL to BM Ciudad Real , with whom he won the 2003 Spanish Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup . He then returned to Germany and joined the Bundesliga club SG Wallau / Massenheim . A year later he moved to the second division ThSV Eisenach , where he worked as a player- coach after the dismissal of coach Zlatko Feric . He then returned to Iceland and became a coach in Akureyri.

From 2012 to 2016 he was a coach at the German second division club EHV Aue before moving to the Bundesliga for HBW Balingen-Weilstetten on July 1, 2016 . In 2017 Balingen was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga. He was released in October 2017.

Rúnar Sigtryggsson played 118 international matches with the Icelandic national team , in which he scored 105 goals. With Iceland he took part in the 2004 Olympic Games , scoring four goals in six appearances.

Others

Rúnar Sigtryggsson is married to the former Icelandic handball player Heiða Erlingsdóttir and has three children. His younger brother Árni Þór Sigtryggsson and his son Sigtryggur Daði Rúnarsson also play handball.

Web links

• Rúnar Sigtryggsson in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Rúnar Sigtryggsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla , accessed on January 16, 2014
2. ↑ Sigtryggsson: "Simply everyone can" , Schwarzwälder Bote , article from June 24, 2016
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} sportregio.de: Rúnar Sigtryggsson - Iceland's defense chief is the new Panther from July 12, 2003, accessed on January 16, 2014
4. ↑ EHF : player profile Rúnar Sigtryggsson season 2000/01 , accessed on January 16, 2014
5. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: Opponents Ciudad Real season 2002/2003 , accessed on January 16, 2014
6. ↑ archiv.thw-handball.de: opponents team SG Wallau / Massenheim season 2003/2004 , accessed on January 16, 2014
7. ↑ thw-provinzial.de: opponents team SG Wallau / Massenheim season 2004/2005 , accessed on January 16, 2014
8. ^ Eisenachonline.de: ThSV: Rúnar Sigtryggsson from now on player-coach from October 27, 2004, accessed on January 20, 2016
9. ↑ Profile: Rúnar Sigtrygsson ( Memento from January 27, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
10. ↑ ^{a b} handball-world.com: An Icelander in the Ore Mountains: Sigtryggsson wants to establish EHV Aue on May 23, 2012, accessed on January 16, 2014
11. ↑ ehv, red: Aue coach Sigtryggsson before switching to first division club. In: www.handball-world.com. Retrieved June 24, 2016 . 
12. ↑ PR HBW Balingen-Weilstetten, red: "Long-term solution" - Balingen dismisses trainer Sigtryggsson and presents his successor. In: www.handball-world.com. Retrieved October 24, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Rúnar Sigtryggsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
14. ↑ schwarzwaelder-bote.de: Sigtryggur Dadi Rúnarsson in focus from July 11, 2018, accessed on September 8, 2017.

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 .