Guðmundur Bragason (born 21 April 1967) is a former Icelandic professional
basketball
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player and coach. He spent most of his career with
GrindavÃk
GrindavÃk () is a fishing town in the Southern Peninsula district of Iceland, not far from Þorbjörn, a tuya (a type of flat-topped, steep-sided volcano).
It is one of the few towns with a harbour on this coast. Most of the inhabitants work ...
in the Icelandic
Úrvalsdeild
The Besta deild karla () is a professional association football league in Iceland and the highest level of the Icelandic football league system. The competition was founded in 1912 as the Icelandic Championship. Because of the harsh winters in I ...
, winning the national championship there in 1996.
Icelandic National Team
Guðmundur is the highest capped player in the
Icelandic national basketball team history, playing 164 games between 1987 and 2003.
Team of the 20th century
In 2001 Guðmundur was voted to the
Icelandic team of the 20th century in basketball as a player.
Personal life
Guðmundur is married to StefanÃa Jónsdóttir, a former member of the
Icelandic women's national basketball team He is the father of basketball players
Jón Axel Guðmundsson
Jón Axel Guðmundsson (born 27 October 1996) is an Icelandic professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Davidson Wildcats. He won two national championships with GrindavÃk in 2012 and 2013 and the Icelandic Basket ...
and
Ingvi Þór Guðmundsson.
References
External links
Úrvalsdeild stats
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1967 births
Living people
Centers (basketball)
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20th-century Icelandic sportsmen