On Thursday, 31st May, the distribution of sports grants for under-18 athletes from the member clubs of \u00cdBH took place, in accordance with an agreement between \u00cdBH, Rio Tinto and the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The ceremony was held at Rio Tinto's headquarters in Iceland, in Straumsv\u00edk. An agreement has been in effect since 2001 between the Sports Federation of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Rio Tinto and the Municipality of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Agreements have been made for three years at a time, and the most recent one is from 2017, ending at the end of 2019. Rio Tinto and the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur each contribute 10 million per year to the partnership to support children's and youth sports in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. Today, the first grant of the year from the fund, or 60%, is being allocated for the number of members training regularly in the clubs and for equality incentives, totalling 12 million. Applications were invited from \u00cdBH member clubs in April, and 12 clubs applied for support from the fund. The following clubs will receive support based on the agreement and their applications:<\/p>\n
Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Gymnastics Club kr. 3,188,653.<\/p>\n
Gymnastics Club Bj\u00f6rk kr. 2,206,070.<\/p>\n
The football club Haukar kr. 1,879,807.<\/p>\n
Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Swimming Club kr. 999,655.<\/p>\n
Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Ski Club kr. 838,420.<\/p>\n
Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Badminton Club kr. 517,848.<\/p>\n
Golf Club Keilir kr. 356,613.<\/p>\n
The Riding Club S\u00f6rli kr. 349,026.<\/p>\n
Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Dance Sports Association kr. 320,573.<\/p>\n
Sailing Club \u00deytur kr. 216,244.<\/p>\n
Sports club Fj\u00f6r\u00f0ur kr. 83,463.<\/p>\n
Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Boxing Club kr. 43,628.<\/p>\n
Total: kr. 11,000,000.<\/p>\n
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The 2018 Equality Incentive Awards were awarded to the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Sailing Association, kr. 500,000, and the Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Badminton Association, kr. 500,000. Total: kr. 1,000,000.<\/p>\n
Organised sports activities for children and young people in Iceland have achieved remarkable preventative success, as research findings from Ranns\u00f3knir og greining have shown since 1992. In this context, it is also worth pointing to an article published on mbl.is on 28th May. We are experiencing a \u201egolden age of Icelandic sports.\u201c In it, Vi\u00f0ar Halld\u00f3rsson, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Iceland, argues that we are experiencing a golden age of Icelandic sports. According to Vi\u00f0ar, we are achieving goals for sports clubs that are about competition and achievement, but also about social skills and upbringing. The system abroad is only working to a small extent in getting young talented athletes into the elite teams. Other countries are starting to look to Iceland and our system.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fimmtudaginn 31. ma\u00ed f\u00f3r fram \u00fathlutun \u00ed\u00fer\u00f3ttastyrkja fyrir yngri en 18 \u00e1ra i\u00f0kendur a\u00f0ildarf\u00e9laga \u00cdBH samkv\u00e6mt samningi milli \u00cdBH, Rio Tinto og Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6jar. \u00dathlutunin fer fram \u00ed h\u00f6fu\u00f0st\u00f6\u00f0vum Rio Tinto \u00e1 \u00cdslandi \u00ed Straumsv\u00edk. Samningur hefur veri\u00f0 \u00ed gildi fr\u00e1 \u00e1rinu 2001 \u00e1 milli \u00cd\u00fer\u00f3ttabandalagsins \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i, Rio Tinto og Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6jar. Samningar hafa veri\u00f0 ger\u00f0ir […]<\/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-13583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583","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=13583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13583"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}