Ívar Ásgrímsson (born 11 April 1965) is an Icelandic
basketball
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coach and the former head coach of the
Icelandic women's national basketball team. He led Haukar to the national men's finals in 2016 where they lost to
KR.
Playing career
Club career
Ívar played for 14 seasons in the Icelandic
Úrvalsdeild, 11 of them with
Haukar
Knattspyrnufélagið Haukar ( en, Hawks F.C.) is an Icelandic multi-sport club from Hafnarfjörður with divisions in Association football, Football, Haukar Handball, Handball, Basketball, Karate, Skiing & Chess.
Club history
The club was found ...
where he won the
Icelandic Basketball Cup in 1985, 1986 and 1996. He won the national championship in 1988 with Haukar after beating
Njarðvík
Njarðvík () is a town in southwestern Iceland, on the peninsula of Reykjanes. As of 2009, its population was 4,400.
History
In 1995 it merged with the town of Keflavík and the village of Hafnir to form the new municipality of Reykjanesbær. T ...
in the finals. He scored 14 points in the third and deciding game of the series, and sent it into a second
overtime
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*by custom (what is considered healthy or reasonable by society) ...
after scoring two
free throws
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with 10 seconds left.
Icelandic national team
Between 1986 and 1991, Ívar played 15 games for the
Icelandic national basketball team.
Coaching career
Club career
After coaching the Haukar team since 2011, Ívar announced in March 2019 that he would leave the team and the end of the season.
On 26 May 2019, Ívar was hired as the head coach of
1. deild kvenna club
Breiðablik.
In April 2023, Ívar was hired as the head coach of
Breiðablik men's team, replacing
Pétur Ingvarsson
Pétur () or Petur is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Petur Alberg (1885–1940), Faroese violin player and songwriter from Tórshavn
* Pétur Blöndal (1944–2015), Icelandic congressman in the Icelandic Independence Party ...
, after serving as an assistant coach with the team the previous season.
National team career
Ívar was hired as the head coach of the
Icelandic women's national basketball team for two years in 2004. In 2014 he was rehired as the head coach. He is the longest tenured head coach in Iceland's women's team history, having coached the team for 7 years. After the team's last game in the
EuroBasket Women 2019 qualification, Ívar announced that it was his last game with the team as he would not seek a renewal of his contract.
National team record
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References
External links
Career stats
at kki.is
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1965 births
Living people
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