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, The awardees included Icelandic champions, cup winners, Nordic champions, world champions and recipients of special achievement awards, as well as the selections for the Sportswoman, Sportsman and Sports Team of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur for 2020.<\/p>\n
This year, over 300 individuals have won national and\/or cup championships with teams from Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, and they are especially congratulated on their success. At the ceremony, 10 million was awarded from a fund established by Rio Tinto in Iceland, \u00cdBH and the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, which is intended to support sports activities for under-18s.<\/p>\n
The selection of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's sportswoman, sportsman and sports team took place. Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur's 2020 elite team is Men's and women's senior teams in athletics at Fimleikaf\u00e9lag Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The team won every athletics competition that counted towards points during the year. They also won numerous titles in both championships and cup competitions.<\/p>\n Golf player Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Br\u00e1 Bj\u00f6rgvinsd\u00f3ttir from Keili Golf Club is the 2020 Sportswoman of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/strong><\/p>\n Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Br\u00e1 is the 2020 Icelandic Women's Golf Champion and has won for three years in a row. Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Br\u00e1 has been among the country's leading golfers for many years. She won the Icelandic Stroke Play Championship this summer and became the GS\u00cd points champion, having won three of the five tournaments of the year. Gu\u00f0r\u00fan Br\u00e1 plays on the Ladies European Tour, where she has full playing rights for this year and next. Gu\u00f0r\u00fan is ranked 125th on the LET European Tour Order of Merit and 949th on the women's professional golf world ranking.<\/p>\n Swimmer Anton Sveinn McKee of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Swimming Club is the Athlete of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur for 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n Anton Sveinn is SH's swimmer and the Swimming Association of Iceland's swimmer of 2020. He became a multiple Icelandic champion during the year, as well as the Icelandic champion in medley relay. He set three Icelandic records, which were also new Nordic records, in the 200m and 100m breaststroke. Anton Sveinn was the first Icelandic swimmer to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games. He has also qualified for the European Swimming Championships, which has been postponed until 2021.\u00a0<\/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 2020. \u00c1 \u00e1rinu hafa r\u00famlega 300 einstaklingar unni\u00f0 \u00cdslandsmeistaratitla og\/e\u00f0a bikarmeistaratitla me\u00f0 hafnfirsku li\u00f0i og er \u00feeim s\u00e9rstaklega […]<\/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-14529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14529","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=14529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14529"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}