Ingi Þór Steinþórsson (born 9 May 1972) is an Icelandic
basketball coach
Basketball coaching is the act of directing and strategizing the behavior of a basketball team or individual basketball player. Basketball coaching typically encompasses the improvement of individual and team offensive and defensive skills, as wel ...
. As head coach, Ingi Þór has won the Icelandic
men's national championship and the
women's national championship three times each. He was named
Úrvalsdeild karla Coach of the Year in
2010
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, when he won the
Úrvalsdeild karla title with the
Snæfell while also being named
Úrvalsdeild kvenna Coach of the Year three times, in 2014–2016, when he led Snæfell women's team to a
three-peat
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.
Ingi Þór served as an assistant coach at KR from 1998 to 1999 and 2008–2009, helping the club win the national championship in 2009.
On 12 June 2018 he was introduced as the next head coach of the reigning men's national champions, KR, replacing
Finnur Freyr Stefánsson
Finnur Freyr Stefánsson (born 29 October 1983) is an Icelandic professional basketball coach. With KR, he won the Icelandic championship five years in a row from 2014 to 2018 and the Icelandic Men's Basketball Cup in 2016 and 2017. He has ser ...
. On 4 May 2019, he won his third Úrvalsdeild karla championship when KR beat
ÍR 3–2 in the finals. He led KR to a 14–7 record during the 2019–20 season before the last game and the playoffs were canceled due to the
coronavirus pandemic in Iceland
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. In May 2020, he was fired from his post. Less than two weeks later, he was hired as an assistant coach to
Stjarnan
Ungmennafélagið Stjarnan (, ), commonly known as Stjarnan (), is an Icelandic multi-sports club specialising in handball, football, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics located in Garðabær.
Basketball Men's basketball
As of the 2017–2 ...
.
On 19 March 2022, he won the
Icelandic Basketball Cup when Stjarnan defeated reigning national champions
Þór Þorlákshöfn
Ungmennafélagið Þór, commonly known as Þór Þorlákshöfn, is a multi-sport club in Þorlákshöfn, Iceland. It has active departments in athletics, badminton, basketball, motorcycle sports and track & field but has also featured various othe ...
in the 2022 Cup Finals.
Awards, titles and accomplishments
Awards
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Úrvalsdeild karla Coach of the Year: 2010
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Úrvalsdeild kvenna Coach of the Year (3): 2014, 2015, 2016
Men's titles
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Icelandic men's champions (4): 2000, 2009
1, 2010, 2019
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Icelandic Basketball Cup: 2010
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Icelandic Supercup (3): 2010
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Icelandic Company Cup (2): 2008
1, 2010
1 As assistant coach
Women's titles
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Icelandic women's champions (3): 2014, 2015, 2016
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Icelandic Basketball Cup: 2016
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Icelandic Supercup (4): 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
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Icelandic Company Cup: 2012
References
Ingi Thor Steinthorsson
Living people
Ingi Thor Steinthorsson
Ingi Thor Steinthorsson
1972 births
Ingi Thor Steinthorsson
Ingi Thor Steinthorsson
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