Kristján Arason (born 23 July 1961) is a former member of
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 regi ...
ic
national handball team. He is the husband of
Þorgerður KatrÃn Gunnarsdóttir
Þorgerður KatrÃn Gunnarsdóttir (born 4October 1965) is an Icelandic politician, who has been chairwoman of Viðreisn since 2017.
Þorgerður was deputy chairwoman of the Independence Party from 2005 to 2010. She was the Minister of Educat ...
, a well-known figure in Icelandic politics. He ranked fourth in IHF's list of the world's best handball players in the year 1989.
He won the Icelandic championship with
Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar
Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar (), commonly referred to as FH, is an Icelandic multi-sports club based in Hafnarfjörður. The club competes in football, handball, athletics, and fencing. It was founded in 1929 as a gymnastics club but soon start ...
(FH) as a coach in 2011.
Basketball
Before fully focusing on handball, Kristján played various other sports, including
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
. He was a member of the Iceland junior national basketball teams and won the
2. deild karla with
Haukar
Knattspyrnufélagið Haukar (, ) is an Icelandic multi-sport club from Hafnarfjörður with divisions in Association football, Football, Haukar Handball, Handball, Basketball, Haukar RC, Rugby union, Karate, Skiing & Chess.
Club history
The clu ...
in 1981.
See also
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List of handballers with 1000 or more international goals
In total, 27 handballers to date have scored 1000 or more goals for their national teams at senior level.
A vast majority of the players who scored at least 1000 goals, are from the modern era of the sport. This is partly because fewer games w ...
References
1961 births
Living people
Kristjan Arason
Kristjan Arason
Kristjan Arason
Handball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Kristjan Arason
Icelandic expatriate handball players in Germany
Icelandic expatriate sportspeople in West Germany
VfL Gummersbach players
Icelandic expatriate handball players in Spain
20th-century Icelandic sportsmen
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