Iceland at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Iceland at the 2008 Summer Olympics

IOC code	ISL
NOC	National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland
Website	www.isi.is (in Icelandic)
in Beijing
Competitors	29 in 5 sports
Flag bearers	Örn Arnarson (opening) Sigfús Sigurðsson (closing)
Medals Ranked 70th	Gold 0 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1908 1912 1920–1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024

Iceland sent a team to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. With their silver medal in men's handball, they obtained their fourth olympic medal and their first team medal.

Medalists

[edit ]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Iceland men's national handball team Sturla Ásgeirsson Arnór Atlason Logi Eldon Geirsson Snorri Steinn Guðjónsson Hreiðar Guðmundsson Róbert Gunnarsson Björgvin Páll Gustavsson Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson Ingimundur Ingimundarson Sverre Andreas Jakobsson Alexander Petersson Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson Sigfús Sigurðsson Ólafur Stefánsson Bjarni Fritzson	Handball	Men's tournament

Athletics

[edit ]

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Bergur Ingi Pétursson	Hammer throw	71.63	25	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Þórey Edda Elísdóttir	Pole vault	4.15	23	Did not advance
Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir	Javelin throw	48.59	50	Did not advance

Badminton

[edit ]

Main article: Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ragna Ingólfsdóttir	Women's singles	Hirose (JPN) L 6–21, 7–19^ret	Did not advance

Handball

[edit ]

Main article: Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men's tournament

[edit ]

Main article: Handball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

Roster

The following is the Iceland roster in the men's handball tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[1]^[2]

Head coach: Guðmundur Guðmundsson

No.	Pos.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Height	App.	Goals	Club
1	GK	Björgvin Páll Gústavsson	(1985年05月24日)24 May 1985 (aged 23)	1.90 m	25	1	Germany TV Bittenfeld
3	LB	Logi Eldon Geirsson	(1982年10月10日)10 October 1982 (aged 25)	1.91 m	63	171	Germany TBV Lemgo
5	P	Sigfús Sigurðsson	(1975年05月07日)7 May 1975 (aged 33)	1.98 m	142	301	Iceland Valur
6	RB	Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson	(1984年02月17日)17 February 1984 (aged 24)	1.91 m	83	116	Denmark GOG Svendborg
7	LB	Arnór Atlason	(1984年07月23日)23 July 1984 (aged 24)	1.91 m	58	98	Denmark FCK Handball
9	LB	Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson	(1979年08月08日)8 August 1979 (aged 29)	1.87 m	191	885	Germany VfL Gummersbach
10	CB	Snorri Guðjónsson	(1981年10月17日)17 October 1981 (aged 26)	1.87 m	123	401	Denmark GOG Svendborg
11	RB	Ólafur Stefánsson	(1973年07月03日)3 July 1973 (aged 35)	1.96 m	263	1250	Spain BM Ciudad Real
14	LW	Sturla Ásgeirsson	(1980年07月20日)20 July 1980 (aged 28)	1.86 m	6	11	Denmark Aarhus GF Håndbold
15	RW	Alexander Petersson	(1980年07月02日)2 July 1980 (aged 28)	1.86 m	65	249	Germany SG Flensburg-Handewitt
16	GK	Hreiðar Guðmundsson	(1980年11月29日)29 November 1980 (aged 27)	1.93 m	57	0	Sweden IK Sävehof
17	P	Sverre Andreas Jakobsson	(1977年02月08日)8 February 1977 (aged 31)	1.96 m	44	12	Iceland HK Kopavogur
18	P	Róbert Gunnarsson	(1980年05月22日)22 May 1980 (aged 28)	1.90 m	118	370	Germany VfL Gummersbach
19	LB	Ingimundur Ingimundarson	(1980年01月29日)29 January 1980 (aged 28)	1.93 m	27	34	Norway Elverum Håndball

Group play

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
South Korea	5	3	0	2	122	129	−7	6	Qualified for the quarterfinals
Denmark	5	2	2	1	137	131	+6	6
Iceland	5	2	2	1	151	146	+5	6
Russia	5	2	1	2	136	131	+5	5
Germany	5	2	1	2	126	130	−4	5
Egypt	5	0	2	3	127	132	−5	2

Source: ^{[citation needed ]}

10 August 2008
10:45 Russia 31 – 33 Iceland Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium
Referees: Krstic, Ljubic (SLO)

Igropulo 9 (16–19) Guðjónsson 12

×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square Report ×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square

12 August 2008
20:45 Iceland 33 – 29 Germany Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium
Referees: Bord, Buy (FRA)

Guðjónsson 8 (17–14) Kraus 13

×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square Report ×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square×ばつRed card

14 August 2008
14:00 South Korea 22 – 21 Iceland Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium
Referees: Baum, Goralczyk (POL)

Yoon Kyung-shin 6 (10–9) Geirsson, Sigurðsson 5

×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square Report ×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square

16 August 2008
20:45 Denmark 32 – 32 Iceland Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium
Referees: Canbro, Claesson (SWE)

Nøddesbo 6 (18–17) Guðjónsson 8

×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square Report ×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square×ばつRed card

18 August 2008
09:00 Iceland 32 – 32 Egypt Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium
Referees: Din, Dinu (ROU)

Sigurðsson 10 (14–17) Zaky 9

×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square Report ×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square

Quarterfinal

20 August 2008
14:15 Poland 30 – 32 Iceland Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium
Referees: Bord, Buy (FRA)

Jachlewski, Tkaczyk 6 (19–14) Petersson 6

×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square×ばつRed card Report ×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square

Semifinal

22 August 2008
20:15 Iceland 36 – 30 Spain Beijing National Indoor Stadium
Referees: Krstic, Ljubic (SLO)

Sigurðsson, Geirsson 7 (17–15) Rocas 7

×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square Report ×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square×ばつRed card

Gold medal game

24 August 2008
15:45 Iceland 23 – 28 France Beijing National Indoor Stadium
Referees: Lemme, Ullrich (GER)

Stefánsson 5 (10–15) Karabatić 8

×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square Report ×ばつYellow card×ばつnumber 2 in light blue rounded square

Final rank

Silver

Judo

[edit ]

Main article: Judo at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Þormóður Árni Jónsson	Men's +100 kg	Bye	Figueroa (PUR) W 1000–0001	Roudaki (IRI) L 0001–1000	Did not advance

Swimming

[edit ]

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Árni Már Árnason	50 m freestyle	22.81 NR	44	Did not advance
Örn Arnarson	100 m freestyle	50.68	49	Did not advance
Örn Arnarson	100 m backstroke	56.15	35	Did not advance
Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson	100 m breaststroke	1:02.50	47	Did not advance
Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson	200 m breaststroke	2:15.58	38	Did not advance
Hjörtur Már Reynisson	100 m butterfly	54.17	52	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sarah Blake Bateman	100 m backstroke	1:03.82	41	Did not advance
Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir	100 m breaststroke	1:11.78	40	Did not advance
Erla Dögg Haraldsdóttir	200 m individual medley	2:20.53	35	Did not advance
Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir	50 m freestyle	25.82	36	Did not advance
Ragnheiður Ragnarsdóttir	100 m freestyle	56.35	35	Did not advance
Sigrún Brá Sverrisdóttir	200 m freestyle	2:04.82	45	Did not advance

References

[edit ]

^ "Iceland men's handball team roster". NBC Olympics. 1 February 2013. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
^ "Men's Handball Team Roster – Iceland (ISL)" (PDF). 2008 Beijing. LA84 Foundation. 1 February 2013. p. 2492.

External links

[edit ]

ISI.is:Þátttakendur

v t e National Olympic Committees at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
America	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Netherlands Antilles Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Cambodia China East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	American Samoa Australia Cook Islands Fiji Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

v
t
e

Iceland at the Olympics

Summer Olympic Games	1908 1912 1920–1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter Olympic Games	1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 2030

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iceland_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics&oldid=1247693036"