Handball - SIGURDSSON Dagur

He represented Iceland more than 200 times, including at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. (SportsDeskOnline, 04 May 2021; handball-world, 30 Jan 2016)

He won the Icelandic championship on five occasions with Valur Reykjavik between 1991 and 1996. He was also part of the team that won the Icelandic cup in 1993. (handball, 01 Feb 2017)

He guided Japan's men's team to a final ranking of 11th out of 12 teams at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (ihf, 01 Sep 2021)

He led Japan's men's team to a final ranking of 19th out of 32 teams at the 2021 World Championship. (ihf, 01 Feb 2021)

He coached the Japanese men's national team to a third-place finish at the 2020 Asian Championship in Kuwait. (ihf, 27 Nov 2020)

He led the Germany team to a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (news, 03 Feb 2021)

He coached Germany to a gold medal at the 2016 European Championship in Poland. (berliner-zeitung, 10 Mar 2016; icelandreview, 01 Feb 2016)

As head coach of German club Fuchse Berlin, he won the 2014 DHB Cup and the 2015 EHF Cup. (berliner-zeitung, 10 Mar 2016)

He was a player and coach for Austrian club A1 Bregenz when the team won the Austrian title four times between 2003 and 2007. The team also won the Austrian Cup in 2006. (dhb, 31 Jan 2016)

He was named the 2015 Coach of the Year by the International Handball Federation [IHF]. (handball-world, 07 Apr 2016)

He was named the 2011 World Coach of the Year by Handball Planet magazine. He was also named the 2011 Coach of the Year for the German Handball-Bundesliga. (handball, 01 Feb 2017; handball-planet, 04 Jan 2012)

2017

He served as a player-coach at Japanese team Wakunaga Hiroshima between 2000 and 2003, and at Austrian side A1 Bregenz between 2003 and 2007. He was head coach of the Austrian men's national team from 2008 to 2010. He then coached German club side Fuchse Berlin from 2009 to 2015, before coaching the German men's national team between 2014 and 2017.