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Tómas Holton
Tómas Albert Tómasson Holton (born 8 July 1964) is an Icelandic former basketball player and coach. In 1983, he won the Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball), Icelandic championship and the Icelandic Men's Basketball Cup, Icelandic Cup as a member of Valur men's basketball, Valur. Playing the point guard position, he led the Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball), Úrvalsdeild karla in assists in 1995 and 2000. Playing career Club career Tómas started his senior team career with Valur men's basketball, Valur during the 1981-82 season and with them won the national championship and Iceland Cup in 1983. In 1989, he left the team to play for Budapesti Honvéd SE (men's basketball), Budapesti Honvéd in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A (men's basketball), Hungary Basketball League. The following season he stayed in Hungary and signed with TFSE. He returned to Valur in 1991 for one season as a player-coach before signing with Ammerud Basket in Norway in 1992. From 1994 to 2000, he played for Skallagr ...
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Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the region's westernmost and most list of countries and dependencies by population density, sparsely populated country. Its Capital city, capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which is home to about 36% of the country's roughly 380,000 residents (excluding nearby towns/suburbs, which are separate municipalities). The official language of the country is Icelandic language, Icelandic. Iceland is on a rift between Plate tectonics, tectonic plates, and its geologic activity includes geysers and frequent Types of volcanic eruptions, volcanic eruptions. The interior consists of a volcanic plateau with sand and lava fields, mountains and glaciers, and many Glacial stream, glacial rivers flow to the sea through the Upland and lowland, lowlands. Iceland i ...
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Úrvalsdeild Kvenna (basketball)
Úrvalsdeild kvenna (English: Women's Premier League), known as Bónus deild kvenna for sponsorship reasons, is the highest basketball competition among women's clubs in Iceland. It is administered by the Körfuknattleikssamband Íslands, Icelandic Basketball Federation. It was founded in 1952 and, until 2007, it was known as 1. deild kvenna (English: Women's First division). The league was known as the ''Subway deild kvenna'' from 2021 to 2024. In July 2024, supermarket chain Bónus became the primary sponsor. Champions Notes Titles per club Awards and honors Domestic All-First Team The Women's Domestic All-First Team is an annual Úrvalsdeild honor bestowed on the best players in the league following every season. Domestic Player of the Year Foreign Player of the Year Úrvalsdeild Women's Playoffs MVP Úrvalsdeild Playoffs MVP award is awarded annually to the player judged most valuable to his team during the Úrvalsdeild playoffs. Defensive Player of the Year ...
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Helgi Jónas Guðfinnsson
Helgi Jónas Guðfinnsson (born 18 April 1976) is an Icelandic basketball coach and former professional player. He spent the majority of his career with Grindavík where he won the Icelandic championship in 1996 and the Icelandic Cup in 1995, 1998 and 2006. He was twice named the Úrvalsdeild Domestic Player of the Year and once the Icelandic Basketball Men's Player of the Year. After his playing career came to an end, Helgi went into coaching and led Grindavík to the Icelandic Cup in 2011 and the national championship in 2012. Early life Helgi Jónas grew up Neskaupsstaður where he trained skiing and football in his youth. At the age of 11, he moved with his family to Grindavík where he started playing basketball. Basketball Playing career After playing for Grindavík's junior teams, Helgi broke into the senior team during the 1992–1993 season, averaging 6.9 points in 23 games and being named the Úrvalsdeild Young Player of the Year. He spent the following season ...
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Fréttablaðið
''Fréttablaðið'' () was a free Icelandic newspaper. It was distributed five days per week. At its peak, it was the most read newspaper in Iceland. History and profile ''Fréttablaðið'' was established in 2001. It was originally owned primarily by the media group '' 365''. The paper was published six days per week, Monday — Saturday until September 2003, when its frequency was switched to daily. As of 2019, it was published six days per week again, and as of 2020, it was published five days per week. It is entirely funded by advertising. ''Fréttablaðið'' has been described as siding politically with the Social Democratic Alliance (Samfylkingin) and for favouring Icelandic membership of the European Union. However, some of its editors have sided with the conservative Independence Party (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn), and its former editor-in-chief and regular columnist is Independence Party's former leader and Prime Minister Þorsteinn Pálsson. In the period of 2001–20 ...
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Bárður Eyþórsson
Bárður Eyþórsson (born 10 January 1968) is an Icelandic former basketball coach and player. He was twice named the coach of the year of the men's Úrvalsdeild, in the 2003–04 season and in the 2005–06 season, when he coached the Snæfell. Playing career Club career Bárður came up through the junior ranks of Snæfell but moved to Valur at the age of sixteen and played his first senior match in 1986. He played 191 games in the Úrvalsdeild karla from 1986 to 2000 and averaged 14.6 points per game. National team Bárður played three games for the Icelandic national basketball team from 1991 to 1992. Coaching career Bárður was hired as the head coach of Snæfell men's team in 2000. He guided the club to promotion from Division I to the Úrvalsdeild karla in 2002 and to the Icelandic Basketball Cup finals in 2003, where it lost to Keflavík. He served as the head coach of ÍR from April 2006 to November that same year, when he resigned for personal reasons. In ...
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Dagblaðið Vísir
''DV'' (''Dagblaðið Vísir'') is an online newspaper in Iceland published by Torg ehf. It came into existence as a daily newspaper in 1981 when two formerly independent newspapers, Vísir and Dagblaðið, merged. Early on it was one of the largest newspapers in Iceland and at one point had a 64% readership in Iceland. In the 1990s its readership started to dwindle and in 2003 its publisher was declared bankrupt. It was resurrected a week later by the publisher of Fréttablaðið. In 2006 it was changed from a daily newspaper into a weekly one. Since then it has changed publishers regularly and in 2018 its publisher, DV ehf., went bankrupt. Its assets were bought by a new publisher, . In December 2019, Torg ehf., the owner of Fréttablaðið, agreed to buy Dagblaðið Vísir from Frjáls Fjölmiðlun ehf. The media has changed dramatically since its inception. Today it is online only and focuses mainly on sensational crime stories, astrology, and domestic and foreign celebrit ...
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Vísir
''Vísir'' was an Icelandic newspaper founded in December 1910 by Einar Gunnarsson, originally only distributed in and around Reykjavík. In 1967, Jónas Kristjánsson (newspaper editor), Jónas Kristjánsson became its editor. In 1975, he left the paper after a conflict with the ownership group of on his editorial policy and founded Dagblaðið. On 26 November 1981, Vísir and Dagblaðið merged to form Dagblaðið Vísir. References

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Keflavík Men's Basketball
Keflavík (pronounced , meaning ''Driftwood Bay'') is a town in the Reykjanes region in southwest Iceland. It is included in the municipality of Reykjanesbær whose population as of 2016 is 15,129. In 1995, Keflavík merged with nearby Njarðvík and Hafnir to form the municipality of Reykjanesbær. Keflavík International Airport, the country's largest airport (serving nearby Reykjavík) is adjacent to the town. History Keflavík was founded by Scottish entrepreneurs and engineers in the 16th century, and developed on account of its fishing and fish processing industry. In the 1940s an airport was built next to the town by the United States military, which served as an important refueling stop for trans-Atlantic flights, especially during World War II. During the Cold War, Naval Air Station Keflavik played an important role in monitoring marine and submarine traffic from the Norwegian and Greenland seas into the Atlantic Ocean. Forces from the United States Air Force we ...
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Vladimir Obuchov
Vladimir Obukhov (Russian: Владимир Николаевич Обухов) (21 August 193516 July 2020) was a Soviet and Russian professional basketball coach. He was a Merited Coach of the Soviet Union and Honoured coach of Russia. Life and career Obukhov was born in Moscow. He graduated from the Regional Pedagogical Institute in Moscow in 1959. He started his career as coach with the Soviet Union national under-18 team in 1968 and was coach of the team until 1989. In 1972 Obuchov became assistant coach at MBC Dynamo Moscow. The team twice won third place in the USSR Premier Basketball League (1975 and 1976). In 1985 Obukhov became coach of the Soviet Union men's national basketball team. With the team he won gold at EuroBasket 1985. In 1986 he won the silver medal at 1986 FIBA World Championship The 1986 FIBA World Championship was the 10th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. It was hosted by Spain and was ...
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