Guðmundur Guðmundsson (handball)

Guðmundur Guðmundsson
Personal information
Full name	Guðmundur Þórður Guðmundsson
Born	(1960-12-23) 23 December 1960 (age 56) Reykjavík, Iceland
Nationality	Icelandic
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Club information
Current club	Bahrain (Manager)
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1967–1992 1992–1995	Vikingur Reykjavik Afturelding Mosfellsbær
National team
Years	Team	Apps (Gls)
	Iceland	236 (358)
Teams managed
1989–1992 1992–1995 1995–1999 1999–2001 2001–2004 2005–2007 2007 2008–2012 2009–2010 2010–2014 2014–2017 2017–	Vikingur Reykjavik Afturelding Mosfellsbær Fram Reykjavik TSV Bayer Dormagen Iceland Fram Reykjavik Iceland (assistant) Iceland GOG Svendborg Rhein-Neckar Löwen Denmark Bahrain

Guðmundur Þórður Guðmundsson (born 23 December 1960) is an Icelandic retired handball player and current coach of the Bahrain national team.

He was the head coach of the Iceland national handball team. Under his command the Iceland national team received a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and bronze medal at the 2010 European Championship in Austria.

Guðmundur is ranked with Dagur Sigurðsson his fellow countryman, who is the current national team coach of Germany's Men's team and another, Alfreð Gíslason, coach of THW Kiel amongst the best coaches of our era. He has cited former coach Bogdan Kowalczyk as a major influence.

In October 2013, it was announced that Guðmundur would take over the coaching role of Ulrik Wilbek as Head Coach of Denmark national handball team from 1 July 2014. On August 21, 2016 Guðmundur led his team to the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He announced in November 2016 that he would not renew his contract when it expires on 1 July 2017. After his departure from the Denmark team, Guðmundur has been critical of his predecessor Ulrik Wilbek and Wilbek's attempts to undercut Guðmundur's management of the team.

It was reported in April 2017 that he would take over the Bahrain national handball team.

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