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Guðbjörg Thoroddsen
Guðbjörg is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Guðbjörg Aradóttir, Icelandic entomologist *Guðbjörg Jóna Bjarnadóttir (born 2001), Icelandic sprinter *Guðbjörg Gunnarsdóttir (born 1985), Icelandic footballer *Guðbjörg Guttormsdóttir (born 1989), Icelandic figure skater *Guðbjörg Norðfjörð (born 1972), Icelandic basketball player *Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir (born 1957), Icelandic professor *Guðbjörg Sverrisdóttir (born 1992), Icelandic basketball player *Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir, Icelandic professor *Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir (born 16 November 1982) is an Icelanders, Icelandic Association football, football Defender (association football), defender and a former member of the Iceland women's national football team, Icelandic national f ... (born 1982), Icelandic footballer See also * Guðbjörg ÍS-46, Icelandic freezer trawler {{Given name Icelandic feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðbjörg Aradóttir
Guðbjörg Inga Aradóttir FRES is an Icelandic entomologist and researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in the UK. Her work identifies novel crop protection solutions against insect agricultural pests and the diseases they transmit. She is particularly known for her research on plant resistance to cereal aphids and the Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Guðbjörg has previously worked at the Natural History Museum in London and the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. She is a fellow and trustee of the Royal Entomological Society The Royal Entomological Society is a learned society devoted to the study of insects. It aims to disseminate information about insects and to improve communication between entomologists. The society was founded in 1833 as the Entomological S .... In 2021 she founded ''Mamore Research and Innovation Limited'', a consulting firm that provides services to public and private organizations in research and experimental developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðbjörg Jóna Bjarnadóttir
Guðbjörg Jóna Bjarnadóttir (born 24 December 2001) is an Icelandic sprinter competing in the 60 metres, 100 m and 200 m. She won the gold medal in the 200m at the 2018 Youth Olympics Games. She claimed gold in the 100 m and bronze in the 200 m at the 2018 European Under-18 Championships. She won multiple Icelandic national titles both outdoors and indoors. Career Guðbjörg became for the first time Icelandic senior champion in 2016, competing in the 400 m hurdles. In June 2018, she won the silver medal in the 200 metres at the Championships of the Small States of Europe in Schaan, Liechtenstein in a time of 23.61 seconds. In July, she claimed gold in the 100 m with a time of 11.75 seconds and bronze in the 200 m at the European Under-18 Championships held in Győr, Hungary. The same month, Guðbjörg became the Icelandic 200 m champion for the first time. In October, she competed in the 200 m event at the Summer Yout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðbjörg Gunnarsdóttir
Guðbjörg "Gugga" Gunnarsdóttir (born 18 May 1985) is an Icelandic footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Swedish Damallsvenskan club Eskilstuna United and Iceland's national team. She represented her country in the 2009 and 2013 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship. At club level Guðbjörg has previously represented LSK Kvinner FK and Avaldsnes IL of the Norwegian Toppserien, Turbine Potsdam of the German Frauen-Bundesliga and FH and Valur of the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild. Club career Beginning her club career with FH, Guðbjörg made 23 Úrvalsdeild appearances before signing for Valur in summer 2002. At Valur she overcame a series of injuries to claim four Úrvalsdeild winner's medals and one Icelandic Women's Cup winner's medal. She moved to Swedish Damallsvenskan club Djurgårdens IF Dam ahead of the 2009 season. Guðbjörg developed an affinity for Djurgården and was proud to captain the club. But several other players left due to economic downsizing and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðbjörg Guttormsdóttir
Guðbjörg Guttormsdóttir (born November 6, 1989) is a retired Icelandic Figure skating, figure skater. She is the 2012 National Champion, 2008 Junior bronze medalist and 2005 Novice silver medalist. She also has a gold from Reykjvík International Games 2013. Career She started skating in 1998 at the Reykjavík Skating Club where her main coaches were Jennifer Molin and Guillaume Kermen and later Nikolay Shashkov. During summers she skated in Sweden and USA with Molin and in France with Patrice Paillares. During 2009-2010 she skated in Vancouver B.C at the Vancouver Skating Club with coach but did not compete that year. She represented the Icelandic National team at three Nordic Championships, twice as junior in 2008 and 2009, and once as senior in 2013. Guðbjörg is the oldest of four sisters, all of which have skated. She later turned to coaching and judging and holds a national Technical Specialist licence. She studied biology at the University of Iceland from 2010 to 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðbjörg Norðfjörð
Guðbjörg Norðfjörð Elíasdóttir (born 8 April 1972) is an Icelandic former basketball player and the former chairman of the Icelandic Basketball Federation. As a player, she was named the Icelandic Women's Basketball Player of the Year in 1999 and was a seven-time selection to the Úrvalsdeild kvenna Domestic All-First Team. Guðbjörg won the Icelandic championship three times and the Icelandic Cup four times. She was a member of the Icelandic national basketball team from 1990 to 2002. In 2001, Guðbjörg was voted as one of the twelve players on the Icelandic team of the 20th century. Playing career Club career Guðbjörg started her career with Haukar where she won the Icelandic Cup in 1992. Despite being reigning cup champions, lack of funds and interest from the Haukar basketball department resulted in the team folding before the start of the 1992–93 season, forcing Guðbjörg to transfer to KR. In 1999, she helped KR go undefeated through the league and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir
Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir (born 1957) is a professor of sociology and the pro-rector of science at the University of Iceland. Career Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir completed a BA in sociology and teaching certification from the University of Iceland in 1984, an MA in sociology from Lund University in Sweden in 1990 and a PhD from the same university in 1995. From 1994 to 2007, she was head of the Education Department and later programme director at the Research and Health Department of the Administration of Occupational Health and Safety where she conducted research into the working conditions and wellbeing of various professional groups. Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir is currently a professor of sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics. Since 2016 she is also Pro-Rector of Science. Research Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir's research spans a broad field within the sociology of work, well-being and gender. She has taken part in a wide range of Ice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðbjörg Sverrisdóttir
Guðbjörg Sverrisdóttir (born 10 October 1992) is an Icelandic basketball player for Valur of the Úrvalsdeild kvenna. A five-time national champion, she is the Úrvalsdeild all-time leader in games played. Career Guðbjörg came up through the junior teams of Haukar and played her first games with the senior team during the 2006-2007 season. In 2010, Guðbjörg helped Hamar to the Úrvalsdeild finals where they lost to KR in five games. On February 16, 2013, Guðbjörg dislocated her shoulder in the first half of Valur's Icelandic Cup finals game against Keflavík. She returned to the court in second half, after the team physician popped the shoulder back in the socket, and was a major catalyst in Valur's comeback to the game. However, with two minutes left of the third quarter, Guðbjörg ruptured her achilles tendon, and without her Keflavík won a narrow 68-60 victory. After going through illness during the 2014-2015 season, Guðbjörg recovered and was named to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir
Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir is a professor in Career Guidance and Counselling on the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland. Education and professional positions Guðbjörg received a BA degree in 1982 in Educational Science and Philosophy from the University of Iceland. A year later, she received her Teacher's Diploma from the same university. In 1979, she had completed a diploma in French from the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail in France. She received a post-graduate diploma in 1985 in school counselling from the University of Lyon in France and a master's degree in Educational Science in 1987 from Université Paris V - La Sorbonne. Guðbjörg defended her PhD thesis from the University of Hertfordshire in England in 2004 and was awarded the degree that same year. Guðbjörg began training counsellors at the department of guidance and counselling at the University of Iceland from the year 1988 and was hired as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir
Ólína Guðbjörg Viðarsdóttir (born 16 November 1982) is an Icelanders, Icelandic Association football, football Defender (association football), defender and a former member of the Iceland women's national football team, Icelandic national football team. Club career From 2009 until 2012, Ólína played club football in Sweden for KIF Örebro DFF. She joined Chelsea L.F.C., Chelsea Ladies of the English FA WSL in January 2013. She returned to Iceland at the start of July and signed for Valur women's football, Valur. In November 2014 she signed for Fylkir. In November 2016, Ólína signed with KR women's football, KR. She missed the majority of the 2017 Úrvalsdeild kvenna (football), 2017 Úrvalsdeild season due to a concussion she received in the second game of the season. National team career Ólína was part of Iceland women's national football team, Iceland's national team and competed in the UEFA Women's Championships in UEFA Women's Euro 2009, 2009 and UEFA Women's Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guðbjörg ÍS-46
''Guðbjörg'' ÍS-46, commonly known as Guggan, was an Icelandic freezer trawler. Noted for its yellow colour and often called the flagship of the Icelandic fishing fleet, it was at the time the largest and most technical advanced fishing ship in Iceland. The ship's fate and the empty promises made in regards of its sale are often used as the prime example of the consequences that the Icelandic fishing quota system had on the rural parts of Iceland where ships and quotas were bought and transported elsewhere resulting in the financial collapse of the municipalities. History Built in Flekkefjord, Norway, for Hrönn ehf., ''Guðbjörg'' was delivered in 1994 and replaced an older trawler bearing the same name. In January 1997, the owner of Hrönn ehf. sold the company and ''Guðbjörgin'' to Samherji, a major fishing company located in Akureyri. Despite Samherji's CEO, Þorsteinn Már Baldvinsson, promising that ''"Guggan will remain yellow and have its home port in Ísafjörður"' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
