Ólafur_Rafnsson

Ólafur Rafnsson

Ólafur Rafnsson

Add article description

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Ólafur.

Ólafur Eðvarð Rafnsson (7 April 1963 - 19 June 2013) was the president of FIBA Europe from 2010 until 2013. He also served president of the Icelandic Basketball Association from 1996 until 2006 when he was voted as the president of the National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland where he served until 2013.[2]

Quick Facts 2nd President of FIBA Europe, Preceded by ...

Basketball career

Club

Ólafur played 109 games in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild karla from 1983 until 1989, averaging 9.7 points per game.[3] He won the Icelandic championship with Haukar in 1988 and the Icelandic cup in 1985 and 1986.[4]

National team

Ólafur played 7 games for the Icelandic national team between 1985 and 1986.[5]

Personal life

Ólafur is the father of Icelandic women's national basketball team players Auður Íris Ólafsdóttir and Sigrún Björg Ólafsdóttir.[6][7]

Death

Ólafur died, at the age of 50, during a visit to Geneva, Switzerland, where he had been attending the official opening of FIBA's new headquarters.[8][9]

References

  1. [1]
    "Verða Haukar alls staðar í úrslitum?". Vísir (in Icelandic). March 26, 1981. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  2. [2]
    Board of Icelandic Olympic and Sports Association Archived 2013-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    Ólafur Rafnsson Stats
  4. [4]
    Icelandic Champions
  5. [5]
    "KKÍ | A landslið". kki.is. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
  6. [6]
    Anton Ingi Leifsson (5 July 2019). "Vilja vinna Íslandsmeistaratitilinn í húsi nefndu eftir föður þeirra". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  7. [7]
    Ólafur E. Rafnsson
  8. [8]
    An Obituary: Olafur Rafnsson
  9. [9]
    Ólafur Rafnsson látinn


Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This biographical article relating to an Icelandic basketball figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Ólafur_Rafnsson, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.