Sigurður Valur Sveinsson (born 5 March 1959) is an
Iceland
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ic former
handball
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player who competed in the
1984 Summer Olympics
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and in the
1988 Summer Olympics
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.
He played for the German clubs
TuS Nettelstedt
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Education
* Technological Univers ...
and
TBV Lemgo
TBV Lemgo is a handball club from Lemgo, Germany, and is competing in the Handball-Bundesliga.
History
The ascent to one of the best German handball clubs was slow but steady. In the year the Bundesliga was founded, the club was still in the ...
in the
Bundesliga
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, and
OSC Dortmund in the
2. Bundesliga. In the 1984/85 season with TBV Lemgo he was the
Bundesliga
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top scorer with 191 goals, and in 1989/90 he was the top scorer in the 2. Bundesliga with OSC Dortmund.
In the 1990/91 season he played for
Atlético Madrid
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in Spain.
References
1959 births
Living people
Sigurdur Sveinsson
Sigurdur Sveinsson
Handball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games
Expatriate handball players
Sigurdur Sveinsson
Sigurdur Sveinsson
Sigurdur Sveinsson
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