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==Honours== |
==Honours== |
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=== Valur Reykjavík === |
=== Valur Reykjavík === |
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*Icelandic champion: 1993, 1994, 1995 |
*Icelandic champion: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 |
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=== SC Magdeburg === |
=== SC Magdeburg === |
Revision as of 15:50, 6 September 2011
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ólafur Stefánsson | ||
Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||
Position(s) | Right Back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Rhein-Neckar Löwen | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
1990-1992 | Valur | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992–1996 | Valur | - | (-) |
1996–1998 | LTV Wuppertal | - | (-) |
1998–2003 | SC Magdeburg | - | (-) |
2003–2009 | BM Ciudad Real | - | (-) |
2009– | Rhein-Neckar Löwen | 50 | (193) |
International career | |||
1990- | Iceland | 313 | (1488) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:37, 17 January 2010 (UTC) |
Medal record | ||
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Representing Iceland | ||
Men's Handball | ||
Summer Olympics | ||
2008 Beijing | Team competition | |
European Championship | ||
2010 Austria | Team competition |
Ólafur Indriði Stefánsson (born July 3, 1973 in Reykjavík, Iceland) is an Icelandic handball player who currently plays for Rhein-Neckar Löwen of the German handball championship. He is the current captain for the Iceland national handball team. His demarcation is right back. He is considered to be one of the best handball players in the world.
As a player for his national team, he currently holds the record for the number of goals scored with a national handball team (over 1400 goals) ever. He is also one of the most enduring handball players of all times, being a field player since 1990.
He was voted Sports Personality of the Year in Iceland in 2002, 2003, 2008 and 2009.
Career in clubs
Stefánsson started in the Reykjavík sports club Valur and became champion of Iceland with that team in the 1993/1994 season. After Valur, he migrated to Germany, playing with LTV Wuppertal, then SC Magdeburg. In 2003, he played for the renowned handball team BM Ciudad Real in Spain, until 2008 where he went back to Germany to play with Rhein-Neckar Löwen.
Career on the national team
In 1995, he was selected to play on the Iceland national handball team to take part in the world championships, which were held in Iceland.
He was captain for the national handball team on the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing (ending with the silver medal), and again on the 2010 European Championship where Iceland finished third.
Family
He is the brother of Icelandic basketball player Jón Arnór Stefánsson, formerly of NBA's Dallas Mavericks.[citation needed]
Honours
Valur Reykjavík
- Icelandic champion: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
SC Magdeburg
- Bundesliga: 2001
- DHB-Supercup: 2001
- Champions League: 2002
- EHF Cup: 1999, 2001
- EHF Men’s Champions Trophy: 2001, 2002
BM Ciudad Real
- Liga ASOBAL : 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Copa ASOBAL: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Supercopa ASOBAL: 2005, 2008
- EHF Champions League: 2006, 2008, 2009
- EHF Men’s Champions Trophy: 2005, 2006
International
- 5th place at 1997 World Championship
- 4th place at 2002 European Championship
- 2nd at 2008 Olympic Games
- 3rd place at 2010 European Championship
Individual
- Icelandic Sports Personality of the Year: 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009
- Top Scorer at 2002 European Championship
- Top Scorer in Magdeburg's history
- Top Scorer in 2007-08 EHF Champions League
- Top Scorer at BM Ciudad Real in 2002-03 season
- Selected in 2002 European Championship All Star Team
- Selected in 2004 Olympic Games All Star Team
- Selected in 2008 Olympic Games All Star Team
- Selected in 2010 European Championship All Star Team
Orders and special awards
- Order of the Falcon - Knight Grand Cross in 2008
Links
- Ólafur Stefánssons profile at rhein-neckar-loewen.de
- 1973 births
- Living people
- People from Reykjavík
- Icelandic handball players
- Olympic handball players of Iceland
- Olympic silver medalists for Iceland
- Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Liga ASOBAL players
- Recipients of the Order of the Falcon
- Rhein-Neckar Löwen players
- BM Ciudad Real handball players
- Olympic medalists in handball