Magnús Þór Gunnarsson (born 7 February 1981) is an
Iceland
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ic
basketball
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player who played twenty seasons in the
Úrvalsdeild karla. He won the Icelandic championship five times and the
Icelandic basketball cup three times.
Icelandic national team
Magnús played 77 games for the
Icelandic national basketball team from 2001 to 2013, and was for a time the team's captain.
Controversies
On February 24, 2014, in a game between
KeflavÃk
KeflavÃk (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, KeflavÃk merged with nearby Njar ...
and
KR, Magnús elbowed KR's
Brynjar Þór Björnsson in the face and as a result received a one-game suspension. On November 6, the same year, he once again struck against Brynjar while he was driving to the basket, sending him flying out of bounds. Magnús was ejected from the game and later received a two-game suspension.
Coaching career
On 28 August 2018, Magnús was hired as an assistant coach to Jón Guðmundsson of
Úrvalsdeild kvenna club
KeflavÃk
KeflavÃk (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, KeflavÃk merged with nearby Njar ...
. On 30 September 2018, he won the
Icelandic Women's Super Cup with KeflavÃk.
Titles and awards
Titles
*5x
Icelandic champion (1999, 2003–2005, 2008)
*3×
Icelandic Basketball Cup (2003, 2004, 2012)
*
Icelandic Supercup (2003)
*3x Icelandic Company Cup (2002, 2006, 2013)
Awards
*3x
Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First Team (2005, 2006, 2012)
References
External links
Úrvalsdeild statistics 1998-2007Icelandic statistics 2008-presentEurobasket profile
1981 births
Living people
Magnus Thor Gunnarsson
Guards (basketball)
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21st-century Icelandic sportsmen
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