Birgir Örn Birgisson (born 6 October 1969) is an Icelandic

basketball coach Basketball coaching is the act of directing and strategizing the behavior of a basketball team or individual basketball player. Basketball coaching typically encompasses the improvement of individual and team offensive and defensive skills, as wel ...

and a former professional player who played 26 games for the

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. He won two

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with Keflavík in

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and

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

. Before turning to basketball, Birgir had a successful career in swimming and was a member of the Icelandic national swimming team.

Basketball

Awards and achievements

* Icelandic champion: 2 **1997, 1999 * Icelandic Division I: 1 **1994 * Icelandic Basketball Cup: 1 **1997 * Icelandic Supercup: 1 **1997 *Icelandic Company Cup: 3 **1996, 1997, 1998

National team

Birgir played 26 games for the

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Swimming

Awards and achievements

*Icelandic Swim Cup: 1 **1986

References

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