Fannar Ólafsson (born 20 November 1978) is an Icelandic

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analyst on Stöð 2 Sport's '' Domino's Körfuboltakvöld'' (English: Domino's Basketball Night) and a former basketball player. He went five times to the

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 ...

finals, as a member of

Keflavík Keflavík (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, Keflavík merged with nearby Njar ...

and KR, and won the national championships each time. He won the Icelandic Basketball Cup in 2004 and 2011. During the 2004–2005 season, Fannar played with Doukas B.C. and

Ratiopharm Ulm Ratiopharm Ulm, officially stylized as ratiopharm ulm, is a professional basketball club based in Ulm, Germany. The club has two teams, one professional team, which plays in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), the major German professional league an ...

. He has the second best all-time

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in Ratiopharm Ulm's history.

Icelandic national team

Between 1998 and 2009, Fannar played 76 games for the Icelandic national basketball team.

Personal life

His father, Ólafur Einarsson, was a member of the Icelandic national handball team. His sister, Björt Ólafsdóttir, is a former MP for Bright Future and served as the Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources in 2017. Fannar's brother, Eldur Ólafsson, played 6 seasons in the Úrvalsdeild. On 7 February 2004, while celebrating Keflavík's victory in the Icelandic Basketball Cup in Reykjanesbær, Fannar was assaulted by a 22-year-old man from Njarðvík. The man hit him in the head with a glass, resulting in Fannar receiving multiple deep cuts in his face and losing consciousness from blood loss. He lost of blood and required a three-hour operation to close the eleven deep cuts he suffered.

References

External links

Úrvalsdeild statistics 1997-2007
at kki.is
Icelandic statistics from 2007
at kki.is

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