Ólafur Stefánsson

Ólafur Stefánsson on 20 February 2008 in the Cologne Arena

As of November 15, 2013

Ólafur Stefánsson Indriði (born 3 July 1973 in Reykjavík ) is an Icelandic handball coach and a former handball player who aground for the Icelandic national team. The left-hander played mostly at right back. He is in Iceland as a " living legend " and is the recipient of the Icelandic large Knight's Cross.

• 4.1 Valur Reykjavík
• 4.2 SC Magdeburg
• 4.3 BM Ciudad Real
• 4.4 AG København
• 4.5 Lekhwiya Sports Club Doha
• 4.6 national team

Playing career

Clubs

After Ólafur with Valur Reykjavík Icelandic champion three times, he moved in 1996 to the German second division LTV Wuppertal, with whom he made ​​the ascent to the 1st Bundesliga in his first season. After another season in 1998, he moved to league rivals SC Magdeburg, in which he played until 2003. With Magdeburg Ólafur Stefansson won several titles, with the greatest success of winning the Champions League was. After joining BM Ciudad Real Ólafur was included in the Magdeburg Hall of Fame.

From 2003 to 2009 he played for BM Ciudad Real and won with this club the Champions League in 2006, 2008 and 2009. During the 2007 /08 season he was with 96 hits together with Kiril Lazarov scorer. Stefansson is also the most successful with 68 hits Final scorer in the history of the Champions League.

For the 2009/10 season Ólafur moved to the German Handball Club Rhein- Neckar Löwen. After two seasons with the Lions, he went to the Danish club AG København. As of January 1, 2013 Ólafur Stefánsson played in Qatar in the club Lekhwiya Sports Club in the capital, Doha. With Lakhwiya he won the championship in 2013. He then ended his career.

National

In the Icelandic national team, he played 330 matches in which he threw in 1570 gates. In the European Handball Championship 2002 in Sweden, he was top scorer.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, he led his team to the greatest success in the Icelandic sports history, the silver medal. For this he was honored by the president with the Great Knight's Cross on 27 August, his team-mates were awarded the Knight's Cross. In the summer of 2012, he again took part in the Olympic Games in London. After switching off the quarter-finals he ended his international career. Had to complain about some failures in the right rear area as Iceland in preparation for the World Cup in 2013, Ólafur Stefánsson to be persuaded to comeback. Once an old knee injury broke out, he also had to cancel his participation in the World Cup.

Bundesliga balance

Coaching career

Ólafur Stefánsson has been training since the 2013/14 season the Icelandic first division club Valur Reykjavík.

Achievements

Valur Reykjavík

• Icelandic champion: 1993, 1994, 1995

SC Magdeburg

• German Masters: 2001
• Supercup winner: 2001
• Champions League: 2002
• EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 1999, 2001
• Association - European Champion: 2001, 2002

BM Ciudad Real

• Spanish Champion: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Copa ASOBAL: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
• Spanish Supercup: 2005, 2008
• Champions League: 2006, 2008, 2009
• Association - European Champion: 2005, 2006

AG København

• Danish Champion: 2012
• Danish Cup winner: 2011

Lekhwiya Sports Club Doha

• Qatari champions 2013

National

• 5th place in the 1997 World Series
• 4th place at the 2002 European Championships
• Silver at the 2008 Olympic Games
• Bronze at the 2010 European Championships
• All-Star Team: European Championship 2002, OS 2004, EM 2006, OS 2008, EM 2010