Þórir Ólafsson (born 28 November 1979) is an Icelandic
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...
coach and former player.
Career
Between 1999 and 2002 he played for
Selfoss Selfoss may refer to:
*Selfoss (town), Iceland
*UMF Selfoss, a football club based in Selfoss
**Selfoss men's football
**Selfoss women's football
*Selfoss (waterfall), Iceland
*Selfoss Airport
Selfoss Airport is an airport serving Selfoss, a to ...
, after which he joined
Haukar Hafnarfjörður. Here he won the 2003, 2004 and 2005 Icelandic championship.
In 2005 he joined German
Bundesliga
The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...
team
TuS N-Lübbecke. In 2011 he joined Polish
KS Kielce, where he won the 2012, 2013 and 2014 Polish Championship and Cup.
For the 2014-15 season he returned to Iceland and joined
UMF Stjarnan
Ungmennafélagið Stjarnan (, ), commonly known as Stjarnan (), is an Icelandic multi-sports club specialising in handball, football, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics located in Garðabær.
Basketball Men's basketball
As of the 2017–2 ...
as
player-assistant-coach. After a season at Stjarnan he returned to Selfoss.
From 2022 to 2024 he was also the head coach of the team.
References
External links
Profile at Vive Targi Kielce official website
*
1979 births
Living people
Thorir Olafsson
Vive Kielce players
Thorir Olafsson
TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke players
Icelandic expatriate handball players in Germany
Icelandic expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Expatriate handball players in Poland
Icelandic handball coaches
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