Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson | |||
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Personal information | |||
Born |
Reykjavík, Iceland | 8 August 1979||
Nationality | Icelandic | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Playing position | Left wing | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Rhein-Neckar Löwen | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Medal record |
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (born 8 August 1979) is an Icelandic handball player who plays for Rhein-Neckar Löwen.[2][3]
Biography
Guðjón started his handball career young with Grótta on Seltjarnarnes. He also played with KA Akureyri and lost the Icelandic championship final in 2001, KA would win the year after he left. After that his professional career in Germany began with Essen. In 2005, Gudjón Valur won the European championship with Essen, but later that year joined Gummersbach. At Gummersbach he was joined by the Icelandic national handball coach Alfreð Gíslason. Gíslason, former sportsman of the year has led Gummersbach training since 2006. At the World Championship in handball in Germany in January–February 2007, Gudjón Valur scored the most goals, or 66. He was also the player who played the most minutes in the competition.
On average, Gudjón Valur played 58 and a half minutes out of 60 in each game. Unfortunately the Icelandic team, which played well, was unlucky and ended in 8th place. Gudjón Valur is one of the most experienced players on the Icelandic national team. Guðjón Valur was chosen sportsman of the year in 2006.
In 2008 he signed a contract with the Rhein-Neckar Löwen, in the German league. In August 2008 Guðjón Valur played with the Icelandic national team at the Olympics in Beijing, China and won the silver. Gudjon was second top scorer of the Icelandic national team with 43 goals and was named in a seven-man Excellent Olympics. In 2010 Gudjon Valur won his second award for the national team in the tournament when the Icelandic national team won the bronze in the Europe Championship in Austria 2010. Gudjon Valur also played with the Icelandic national team in World Championships in Sweden 2011 and was second top scorer of Iceland with 47 goals.
A year later, at the 2012 European Men's Handball Championship Guðjón played in top form again, being the best Icelandic scorer and the sixth overall of the tournament.[4] The national team, however, slightly underperformed and finished only tenth, still Guðjón Valur made it to the All-Star team as the best left wing of the championship.[5]
References
- ^ "Olympics". sports-reference. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
- ^ "Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ "2015 World Championship Roster" (PDF). IHF. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ "Top Goalscorers - Overall (Top 40)". EHF EURO official website. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ "All Star Team announced". EHF EURO 2012 official website. 29 January 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic handball players of Iceland
- Olympic silver medalists for Iceland
- Recipients of the Order of the Falcon
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Icelandic handball players
- Expatriate handball players
- Icelandic expatriates in Germany
- Icelandic expatriates in Denmark
- Icelandic expatriates in Spain
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Reykjavík
- Handball-Bundesliga players
- Rhein-Neckar Löwen players
- VfL Gummersbach players
- THW Kiel players
- Liga ASOBAL players
- FC Barcelona Handbol players