The Team of the 20th Century in Icelandic basketball was chosen in 2001. The selection of the men's team was made by a 50-person panel while a 25-person panel selected the women's team.
Viðurkenningar - Lið 20. aldarinnar
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Men's team of the century
Player of the century
Pétur Guðmundsson
Starting five
F - Valur Ingimundarson
Valur Snjólfur Ingimundarson (born 20 February 1962) is an Icelandic former basketball player and coach. He played for 20 seasons in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild and is its highest scoring player of all time. He won the Icelandic championship ei ...
F - Teitur Örlygsson
Teitur Örlygsson (born 9 January 1967) is an Icelandic former professional basketball player and a coach. During his career he won the Icelandic national championships ten times with Njarðvík and the Icelandic Basketball Cup seven times. He ...
C - Pétur Guðmundsson
G - Jón Sigurðsson
Jón Sigurðsson (17 June 1811 – 7 December 1879) was the leader of the 19th century Icelandic independence movement.
Biography
Born at Hrafnseyri, in Arnarfjörður in the Westfjords area of Iceland, he was the son of Þórdís Jónsdótti ...
G - Jón Kr. Gíslason
Bench
G - Þorsteinn Hallgrímsson
F - Torfi Magnússon
F - Símon Ólafsson
G - Kolbeinn Pálsson
Kolbeinn Hermann Pálsson (born 26 November 1945) is an Icelandic former basketball player and a former member of the Icelandic national team. In 1966 he became the first basketball player to be named the Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year. He ...
C - Einar Bollason
Einar Gunnar Bollason (born 6 November 1943) is an Icelandic former basketball player, coach and TV analyst. As a player, he won the Icelandic championship six times with KR. In 2001, he was named to the Icelandic basketball team of the 20th ce ...
F - Guðmundur Bragason
Guðmundur Bragason (born 21 April 1967) is a former Icelandic professional basketball player and coach. He spent most of his career with Grindavík
Grindavík () is a fishing town on the Southern Peninsula of Iceland not far from the tuya Þ ...
G - Pálmar Sigurðsson
Pálmar Sigurðsson (born 7 February 1963) is an Icelandic former basketball player and coach, and a former member of the Icelandic national team. In 2001 he was named to the Icelandic basketball team of the 20th century by the Icelandic Basketb ...
Women's team of the century
Player of the century
Anna María Sveinsdóttir
Anna María Sveinsdóttir (born 22 November 1969) is an Icelandic former basketball player and coach. She won twelve Icelandic championships and eleven Icelandic basketball cups, and is regarded as one of the best women's players in Icelandic ...
Starting five
F - Linda Stefánsdóttir
F - Guðbjörg Norðfjörð
C - Anna María Sveinsdóttir
Anna María Sveinsdóttir (born 22 November 1969) is an Icelandic former basketball player and coach. She won twelve Icelandic championships and eleven Icelandic basketball cups, and is regarded as one of the best women's players in Icelandic ...
G - Linda Jónsdóttir
G - Björg Hafsteinsdóttir
Bench
F - Hanna Björg Kjartansdóttir
G - Alda Leif Jónsdóttir
F - Erla Þorsteinsdóttir
C - Kolbrún Leifsdóttir
F - Hafdís Helgadóttir
G - Emilía Sigurðardóttir
G - Erla Reynisdóttir
Coaches of the century
Einar Bollason
Einar Gunnar Bollason (born 6 November 1943) is an Icelandic former basketball player, coach and TV analyst. As a player, he won the Icelandic championship six times with KR. In 2001, he was named to the Icelandic basketball team of the 20th ce ...
Friðrik Ingi Rúnarsson
Friðrik Ingi Rúnarsson is an Icelandic former basketball coach and former basketball player. As a coach, he has won three Icelandic men's championships and has guided his team to the Icelandic national finals a record seven times. Friðrik was t ...
Referees of the century
Jón Otti Ólafsson
Leifur S. Garðarsson
Notes
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