Hafsteinn Geirsson

Hafsteinn Geirsson
Personal information
Full name Hafsteinn Ægir Geirsson
Nationality  Iceland
Born (1980-08-04) 4 August 1980
Reykjavík, Iceland
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Dinghy
Club Siglingaklúbburinn Þytur

Hafsteinn Ægir Geirsson (born August 4, 1980 in Reykjavík) is a retired Icelandic sailor, who specialized in the Laser class.[1] He represented his nation Iceland in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has also been training throughout most of his sporting career for Þytur Sailing Regatta (Icelandic: Siglingaklúbburinn Þytur).[2]

Geirsson made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed forty-second in the Laser class with a net grade of 355, after having decided to pull himself out in the last race due to yachting malfunction.[3][4]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Geirsson qualified for his second Icelandic team, as a 24-year-old, in the Laser class by granting a tripartite invitation from the International Sailing Federation.[5][6] Sailing through the race series with a similar effort from the previous Olympics, Geirsson recorded a satisfying grade of 344 net points to upgrade his position to fortieth in a fleet of forty-two sailors.[7][8]

Hafsteinn Geirsson is also a cyclist. He has won several competitions, i.e. Icelandic competitions[9] and the Faroese Kring Føroyar (Tour of Faroe Islands) which he has won four times, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Hafsteinn Geirsson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Átta hafnfirskir íþróttamenn styrktir" [Eight Hafnarfirði athletes named] (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. 11 October 2003. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Sailing – Men's Laser Class" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 131. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  4. ↑ "Hafsteini Ægir Geirsson fékk ekki byr" [Hafsteinn Ægir Geirsson got no breeze] (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. 21 September 2000. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Er tilbúinn að ýta úr vör í Aþenu" [Geirsson is ready to launch in Athens] (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. 13 August 2004. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "Hafsteinn á Ólympíuleikana" [Hafsteinn goes to Olympics] (in Icelandic). Vísir. 29 June 2004. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Sailing: Mixed Laser Class". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Hafsteinn Ægir í 40. sæti" [Hafsteinn Ægir finished fortieth] (in Icelandic). Morgunblaðið. 21 August 2004. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  9. ↑ "Úrslit fyrir árið 2007 (Results for 2007)". hfr.is. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Frábær sigur hjá Haffa" (in Icelandic). Brokey.is. 24 July 2008. Retrieved 14 July 2015.

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