Geir Sveinsson (born 27 January 1964) is an Icelandic

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

coach and former player who competed in the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe ...

and in the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics (, ), officially the Games of the XXV Olympiad (, ) and officially branded as Barcelona '92, were an international multi-sport event held from 25 July to 9 August 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Beginning in 1994 ...

. He was hired as the head coach of

Akureyri Handboltafélag Akureyri Handboltafélag was a men's handball club, located in Akureyri, Iceland. History Akureyri Handboltafélag was founded in 2006 as a joint team between KA and Þór Akureyri. In 2011 it posted the best record in the Úrvalsdeild karla ...

in January 2019. In August the same year, he was hired as the head coach of

HSG Nordhorn-Lingen HSG Nordhorn-Lingen (''HSG Nordhorn'' until September 2008) is a handball club from Nordhorn, Germany. As of the season 2021/22 HSG Nordhorn-Lingen competes in the 2. Handball-Bundesliga. In 2008 the club won the EHF Cup, which was their first a ...

. In July 2022, he was hired as the mayor of

Hveragerði Hveragerði (, "hot-spring yard") is a town and municipality in the south of Iceland, 45 km east of Reykjavík on Iceland's main ringroad, Route 1. The river Varmá runs through the town. With an area of 9 square kilometers, Hveragerði ...

. He stepped down as mayor in March 2024.

References

1964 births Living people Geir Sveinsson Geir Sveinsson Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Geir Sveinsson Geir Sveinsson Geir Sveinsson Liga ASOBAL players BM Granollers players Montpellier Handball players Geir Sveinsson Geir Sveinsson Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games Expatriate handball coaches Icelandic expatriate handball players in France Icelandic expatriate handball players in Spain Mayors of places in Iceland 20th-century Icelandic sportsmen {{Iceland-handball-bio-stub