Sigurður Bjarnason (handball player)

Sigurdur Bjarnason

Sigurður Bjarnason (2011)
Player information
Nickname	"Siggi"
birthday	1st December 1970
place of birth	Garðabær , Iceland
citizenship	Icelandic
Playing position	Back left
	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
-1991	UMF Stjarnan
1991-1994	TV Großwallstadt
1994-1996	UMF Stjarnan
1996-1997	GWD Minden
1997-1999	VfL Bad Schwartau
1999-2003	HSG D / M Wetzlar
National team
	Games (goals)
Iceland	163 (320)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2003–	UMF Stjarnan

Sigurður Bjarnason (born December 1, 1970 in Garðabær ) is an Icelandic handball player , coach and official.

Sigurður moved in 1991 from his hometown club UMF Stjarnan to TV Großwallstadt in the 1st handball league . With HSG D / M Wetzlar he reached the final of the German handball cup in 2001 . After returning to Iceland , he returned to the UMF Stjarnan as a coach and won the Icelandic Cup in 2006. Since 2011 he has been vice president of the association and is responsible for finances.

With the Icelandic national team , he achieved fourth place at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . At the European Championships in Sweden in 2002 , he was also able to achieve fourth place with Iceland. In total, Sigurður played in 163 international matches for his country.

Sigurður is married and has two children. Professionally, he works as a product manager at a bank.

Web links

Commons : Sigurður Bjarnason  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

• Interview with Sigurður Bjarnason in the Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung on February 25, 2012, " A fighter before the Lord ( Memento from March 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )", episode 217 from the series "Long has not heard from ..."

1. ↑ hsi.is: A landslið karla

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 .