Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson (born 30 July 1999) is an Icelandic

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player who plays for SC Magdeburg and the Icelandic national team.

Club career

Gísli Þorgeir Kristjánsson made his debut for his boyhood club FH Hafnarfjörður in the 2015/2016 season but it wasn't until the next season where he made his breakthrough to the first team. In the summer of 2018 he moved to the German Handball Bundesliga to

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, where he signed a three-year contract. With Kiel he won the

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in 2019 and became

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2020. In 2020, he transferred to SC Magdeburg. He won the IHF Super Globe 2021, and the

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. In 2022 he got a silver medal in EHF European League, and became

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. He also won 2022 IHF Super Globe. He was awarded MVP of the

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, and of the

2022–23 EHF Champions League The 2022–23 EHF Champions League was the 63rd edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the 30th edition under the current EHF Champions League format. It ran from 14 September 2022 to 18 June 2023. SC Magdeburg defeated Barline ...

Final four.

International career

At the U-18 European Championship 2016 in Croatia Gísli was the most successful Icelandic shooter with 53 goals. On 26 October 2017 he made his debut for the Icelandic national team in a 31:29-victory against Sweden in friendly.

Honours

* EHF Champions League: **:

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;Individual awards * MVP Handball-Bundesliga:

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* MVP EHF Champions League Final four:

Football career

Before completely focusing on handball he played football as well. In 2014 he was selected for the Iceland squad to compete in the

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. He played two games in the tournament and won a bronze medal with the Icelandic team.

Personal life

His father is Kristján Arason is a former handball player who became German champion with VfL Gummersbach and his mother,

Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir (born 4 October 1965) is an Icelandic politician, who has been chairman of the Reform Party since 2017. Þorgerður was deputy chairwoman of the Independence Party from 2005 to 2010. She was the Minister o ...

, is an Icelandic politician who served as Minister of Education, Science, and Culture and Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture.

References

External links

THW Kiel profileEHF profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kristjansson, Gisli Thorgeir 1999 births Living people Gisli Thorgeir Kristjansson Gisli Thorgeir Kristjansson Expatriate handball players Gisli Thorgeir Kristjansson Handball-Bundesliga players THW Kiel players SC Magdeburg players Gisli Thorgeir Kristjansson Men's association football players not categorized by position