Gylfi Gylfason

Status: National January 21, 2014

Gylfi Gylfason ( born September 22, 1977 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic handball player. The trained hairdresser is 1.77 m tall, is married and has a son.

Gylfi, who plays for Haukar Hafnarfjörður and accrued for the Icelandic national team, is mostly used as a right winger.

Gylfi began at Grótta KR with the handball game. He later made ​​his debut in the first Icelandic league. In 1999 he went to Haukar Hafnarfjordur and moved abroad in 2000, the HSG Dusseldorf in the German second handball league. There he remained for two years before he to Wilhelm HV, who had risen in just the first Handball - Bundesliga, went. There he managed for five years always in the league; in 2008 his club had to play back to the second division the way. Then Gylfi GWD Minden was contracted, for whom he played until the summer of 2011. Then he returned to Haukar Hafnarfjörður.

Gylfi has been disputed 27 caps for the Icelandic national team. For his country, he participated in the European Handball Championship 2004 in Slovenia as well as the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.