The Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Town Council and the Sports and Leisure Committee today held an awards ceremony for athletes competing for teams from Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Awards for Icelandic champions, cup winners, Nordic champions, world champions and special achievements, along with the selection of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's Sportswoman, Sportsman and Sports Team of the Year 2017. <\/p>\n
Nearly 500 individuals who have won Icelandic championship titles with a Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur team in 2017 are being recognised at the celebration. 18 million was allocated from a fund established by Rio Tinto in Iceland, \u00cdBH and the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, which is intended to boost sports activities for under-18s. Awards were presented to cup champions and to those who have won international titles.<\/p>\n
The election of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's sportswoman, sportsman and sports team took place. Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's 2017 Team of Excellence is Men's first team handball at Fimleikaf\u00e9lag Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar<\/strong>. The team reached the four-team final of the cup competition and the final of the Icelandic Championship, where they finished in second place. The team also took part in the European Club Competition, playing three rounds which went well, narrowly missing out on the group stage.<\/p>\n Athlete Arna Stefan\u00eda Gu\u00f0mundsd\u00f3ttir from Fimleikaf\u00e9lag Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar is the 2017 Sportswoman of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/strong> Arna Stefan\u00eda became Icelandic champion this year and cup champion with the women's team at FH. She is a national team athlete in athletics and has taken part in international competitions with good results. Arna Stefan\u00eda won the 400m hurdles at the 2017 Small Nations Games. She is the Nordic Women's Indoor Champion in the 400m and won a bronze medal at the European U23 Championships in the 400m hurdles. Arna Stefan\u00eda is also the 2017 FH Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n Swimmer Robert \u00cdsak J\u00f3nsson from the \u00cd\u00fer\u00f3ttaf\u00e9lagi\u00f0 Fj\u00f6r\u00f0ur sports club is the Athlete of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur for 2017.<\/strong> Robert \u00cdsak is a multiple-time national swimming champion this year. He is a cup champion in swimming with both Fj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Swimming Club. Robert took part in international competitions and won awards at them. He is a four-time Nordic swimming champion this year. World Champion in the 200m individual medley, and a silver medallist at the World Championships in the 100m breaststroke and 100m backstroke. Robert is also Fjar\u00f0ar's Sportsman of the Year 2017.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" B\u00e6jarstj\u00f3rn Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar og \u00ed\u00fer\u00f3tta- og t\u00f3mstundanefnd st\u00f3\u00f0u \u00ed dag fyrir afhendingu vi\u00f0urkenninga til \u00ed\u00fer\u00f3ttamanna sem keppa me\u00f0 hafnfirskum li\u00f0um, \u00cdslandsmeistara, h\u00f3pa bikarmeistara, Nor\u00f0urlandameistara, heimsmeistara og s\u00e9rstakra afreka, \u00e1samt vali \u00e1 \u00ed\u00fer\u00f3ttakonu, \u00ed\u00fer\u00f3ttakarli og \u00ed\u00fer\u00f3ttali\u00f0i Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar \u00e1 \u00e1rinu 2017. H\u00e1tt \u00ed 500 einstaklingum sem hafa \u00e1 \u00e1rinu 2017 unni\u00f0 \u00cdslandsmeistaratitla me\u00f0 hafnfirsku li\u00f0i er veitt vi\u00f0urkenning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}