Jónas Egilsson (born 12 February 1958) is an

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

and sports executive.

Athletics career

In the 80s he ran sprints at distances of 100 to 400 m as well as 400 m hurdles. He represented the club

Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur (, ), commonly known as ÍR, is an Icelandic multi-sport club, based in the suburb of Breiðholt in Reykjavík. It has teams in football, handball, basketball, athletics, tenpin bowling, skiing, karate, taekwondo and ...

Executive career

Jónas was a long-term president of the Icelandic Athletic Federation (Frjálsíþróttasamband Íslands). He first became president in July 1997 and served this function until March 2006. For the second time he was elected president in March 2012. In September 2014 he was replaced by

Einar Vilhjálmsson Einar Vilhjálmsson (born 1 June 1960 in Reykjavík) is a retired male javelin thrower from Iceland, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. He set his personal best (86.80 metres) on 30 Augus ...

. In 2003–2007 and again from 2011 he was a member of the European Athletics Council.

References

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