Iceland men's national handball team

Iceland
Information
Nickname	Strákarnir okkar (English: Our boys)
Association	Icelandic Handball Association (Handknattleikssamband Íslands)
Coach	Guðmundur Guðmundsson
Assistant coach	Gunnar Magnússon Tomas Svensson
Captain	Aron Pálmarsson
Most caps	Guðmundur Hrafnkelsson (407)
Most goals	Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (1879)
Colours
Home Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	7 (First in 1972)
Best result	2nd (2008)
World Championship
Appearances	21 (First in 1958)
Best result	5th (1997)
European Championship
Appearances	11 (First in 2000)
Best result	3rd (2010)
Last updated on Unknown.

Iceland men's national handball team

Medal record
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Team
European Championship
	2010 Austria

The Icelandic men's national handball team represents Iceland in international men's handball. It is controlled by the Icelandic Handball Association.

Honours[]

Competition				Total
Olympic Games	0	1	0	1
World Championship	0	0	0	0
European Championship	0	0	1	1
Total	0	1	1	2

Competitive record[]

  Champions    Runners-up    Third place    Fourth place  

Olympic Games[]

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	Did not enter
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	Match for 11th place	12th of 16	5	1	1	3	92	90	+2
1976 Montreal	Did not qualify
1980 Moscow
1984 Los Angeles	Match for 5th place	6th of 12	6	3	1	2	126	122	+4
1988 Seoul	Match for 7th place	8th of 12	6	2	1	3	125	133	−8
1992 Barcelona	Fourth place	4th of 12	7	3	1	3	140	146	−6
1996 Atlanta	Did not qualify
2000 Sydney
2004 Athens	Match for 9th place	9th of 12	6	2	0	4	172	183	−11
2008 Beijing	Runners-up	2nd of 12	8	4	2	2	242	234	+8
2012 London	Quarter-finals	5th of 12	6	5	0	1	200	166	+34
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Did not qualify
2020 Tokyo
Total	7/12	0 Titles	44	20	6	18	1,097	1,074	+23

World Championship[]

17

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1938 Germany	Did not participate
1954 Sweden
1958 East Germany	Preliminary round	10th of 16	3	1	0	2	46	57	−11
1961 West Germany	Main round	6th of 12	6	2	1	3	85	96	−11
1964 Czechoslovakia	Preliminary round	9th of 16	3	2	0	1	40	39	+1
1967 Sweden	Did not participate
1970 France	Placement round	11th of 16	6	2	0	4	96	112	−16
1974 East Germany	Preliminary round	14th of 16	3	0	0	3	48	66	−18
1978 Denmark	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	0	0	3	54	68	−14
1982 West Germany	Did not participate
1986 Switzerland	Main round	6th of 16	8	4	0	4	179	188	−9
1990 Czechoslovakia	Main round	10th of 16	8	2	0	6	166	186	−20
1993 Sweden	Main round	8th of 16	8	4	0	4	178	175	+3
1995 Iceland	Round of 16	14th of 24	6	3	0	3	131	132	−1
1997 Japan	Quarter-finals	5th of 24	9	7	1	1	236	203	+33
1999 Egypt	Did not participate
2001 France	Round of 16	11th of 24	6	2	1	3	152	150	+2
2003 Portugal	Ranking games	7th of 24	9	6	0	3	308	234	+74
2005 Tunisia	Preliminary round	15th of 24	5	2	1	2	154	144	+10
2007 Germany	Quarter-finals	8th of 24	10	4	0	6	276	247	+29
2009 Croatia	Did not qualify
2011 Sweden	Ranking games	6th of 24	9	5	0	4	327	294	+33
2013 Spain	Round of 16	12th of 24	6	3	0	3	181	166	+15
2015 Qatar	Round of 16	11th of 24	6	2	1	3	152	165	−13
2017 France	Round of 16	14th of 24	6	1	2	3	153	152	+1
/ 2019 Denmark/Germany	Main round	11th of 24	8	3	0	5	207	211	−4
2021 Egypt	Main round	20th of 24	6	2	0	4	172	155
/ 2023 Poland/Sweden	To be determined
/ / 2025 Croatia/Denmark/Norway
2027 Germany
Total	21/27	0 Titles	126	53	7	66	3,014	2,946	+68

European Championship[]

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1994	Did not participate
1996
1998
2000	Match for 11th place	11th of 12	5	0	0	5	121	137	−16
2002	Fourth place	4th of 16	10	5	3	2	221	209	+12
2004	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	0	1	2	87	96	−9
2006	Main round	7th of 16	8	3	2	3	190	191	−1
2008	Main round	11th of 16	8	2	0	6	151	178	−27
2010	Third place	3rd of 16	8	4	3	1	249	240	+9
2012	Main round	10th of 16	6	2	1	3	177	178	−1
2014	Fifth place game	5th of 16	7	4	1	2	199	199	0
2016	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	1	0	2	92	101	−9
2018	Preliminary round	13th of 16	3	1	0	2	74	82	−8
// 2020	Main round	11th of 24	7	3	0	4	191	195	−4
2022	Qualified
2024	To be determined
Total	12/16	0 Titles	67	25	11	32	1,752	1,806	−54

Team[]

Current squad[]

Squad for the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship.^[1][2]

Matches and goals are correct as of 24 January 2021.

Head coach: Guðmundur Guðmundsson

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Björgvin Páll Gústavsson (1985-05-24) 24 May 1985 (age 36) 1.93 m 235 16 Haukar Handball 3 P Kári Kristjánsson (1984-10-28) 28 October 1984 (age 36) 1.94 m 147 178 ÍBV 7 RB Viggó Kristjánsson (1993-12-09) 9 December 1993 (age 27) 1.89 m 16 38 TVB 1898 Stuttgart 8 LW Bjarki Már Elísson (1990-05-16) 16 May 1990 (age 31) 1.91 m 77 203 TBV Lemgo 9 CB Elvar Örn Jónsson (1997-08-31) 31 August 1997 (age 24) 1.89 m 41 100 Skjern Håndbold 11 P Ýmir Örn Gíslason (1997-07-01) 1 July 1997 (age 24) 1.95 m 47 22 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 13 LB Ólafur Guðmundsson (1990-05-13) 13 May 1990 (age 31) 1.94 m 129 256 IFK Kristianstad 14 RB Ómar Ingi Magnússon (1997-03-12) 12 March 1997 (age 24) 1.86 m 51 135 SC Magdeburg 15 RB Alexander Petersson (1980-07-02) 2 July 1980 (age 41) 1.86 m 185 726 Rhein-Neckar Löwen 16 GK Viktor Gísli Hallgrímsson (2000-07-24) 24 July 2000 (age 21) 2.03 m 21 0 GOG Håndbold 17 RW Arnór Þór Gunnarsson (1987-10-23) 23 October 1987 (age 33) 1.78 m 118 333 Bergischer HC 18 CB Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson (1999-07-30) 30 July 1999 (age 22) 1.91 m 30 50 SC Magdeburg 20 GK Ágúst Elí Björgvinsson (1995-04-11) 11 April 1995 (age 26) 1.90 m 36 0 KIF Kolding 21 P Arnar Freyr Arnarsson (1996-03-14) 14 March 1996 (age 25) 2.00 m 58 75 MT Melsungen 22 RW Sigvaldi Guðjónsson (1994-07-04) 4 July 1994 (age 27) 1.92 m 34 70 Łomża Vive Kielce 23 LW (1990-07-20) 20 July 1990 (age 31) 1.82 m 24 37 HBW Balingen-Weilstetten 24 LB (1992-05-08) 8 May 1992 (age 29) 1.86 m 11 7 Valur 26 RB (1997-12-25) 25 December 1997 (age 23) 1.92 m 12 17 Pays d'Aix Université Club 29 P (1998-11-15) 15 November 1998 (age 22) 1.91 m 12 12 VfL Gummersbach 33 CB Janus Daði Smárason (1995-01-01) 1 January 1995 (age 26) 1.86 m 47 66 Frisch Auf Göppingen

Past squads[]

2008 Olympic Games (2nd place)

All Star Team: Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson (left wing), Snorri Guðjónsson (centre back), Ólafur Stefánsson (right back)

Björgvin Páll Gústavsson, Logi Geirsson, Bjarni Fritzson, Sigfús Sigurðsson, Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson, Arnór Atlason, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, Snorri Guðjónsson, Ólafur Stefánsson, Sturla Ásgeirsson, Alexander Petersson, Hreiðar Guðmundsson, Sverre Andreas Jakobsson, Róbert Gunnarsson, Ingimundur Ingimundarson.

Coach: Guðmundur Guðmundsson

2010 European Championship (3rd place)

All Star Team: Ólafur Stefánsson (right back)

Björgvin Páll Gústavsson, Hreiðar Guðmundsson, Vignir Svavarsson, Logi Geirsson, Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson, Arnór Atlason, Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson, Snorri Guðjónsson, Ólafur Stefánsson, Alexander Petersson, Sverre Andreas Jakobsson, Róbert Gunnarsson, Ingimundur Ingimundarson, Sturla Ásgeirsson, Þórir Ólafsson, Aron Pálmarsson, Ólafur Guðmundsson, Rúnar Kárason.

Coach: Guðmundur Guðmundsson

List of coaches[]

List of captains[]

Individual all-time records[]

Record against Nordic countries[]

All games, including European Championships, World Championships and Olympic Games.

Last updated: 2 January 2016
Source: Icelandic Handball Association (hsi.is)

Kit suppliers[]

Since 2006, Iceland's kits have been supplied by Kempa.

Following their Silver Medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the penises of the team were cast in a silvery material and are on display at the Icelandic Phallological Museum.^{[citation needed]}

References[]

External links[]

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