Helgi Jóhannsson

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Helgi.

Helgi Jóhannsson (23 June 1929 – 4 April 2003) was an Icelandic basketball coach and player.^[1] He was one of the main pioneers of modern basketball in Iceland and was a founding member of Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur's basketball department.^[2] As a coach, Helgi won a record 8 men's national championships from 1954 to 1964.^[3][4] He played with ÍR in the 1964–65 FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague),^[5] the first time an Icelandic team competed in a continental competition.^[6][7] He was the head coach of the Icelandic men's national basketball team on three occasions, from 1961–1967, in 1970 and in 1978.

Helgi Jóhannsson

Personal information
Born	(1929-06-23)23 June 1929 Kingdom of Iceland
Died	4 April 2003(2003-04-04) (aged 73) Reykjavík, Iceland
Nationality	Icelandic
Career history
As player:
1951–196?	ÍR
As coach:
1952–196?	ÍR (M)
19??–19??	ÍR (W)
1961–1967	Iceland (M)
1970	Iceland (M)
1978	Iceland (M)
1992–1993	ÍR (W)
Career highlights and awards
As coach: 8× Icelandic men's champion (1954, 1955, 1957, 1960–1964)

In 1963 he was the head coach of the first Icelandic junior national basketball team when he coached the Iceland men's national under-18 basketball team during the 1964 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship qualification.^[8]

Death

Helgi died on 4 April 2003 after battling cancer.^[9]

References

1. Ágúst Ásgeirsson (11 March 2007). Heil öld til heilla - Saga ÍR í 100 ár. Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur. pp. 568–569.
2. Rafn Marteinsson (28 November 1994). "Ný gullöld í vændum". Helgarpósturinn (in Icelandic). Retrieved 6 May 2019.
3. Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (6 May 2019). "Ingi Þór bætti metið yfir lengstu sigurtíð þjálfara". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 6 May 2019.
4. Sigmundur Ó. Steinarsson (10 March 2007). "Fimm prinsar á ferð á gullárum ÍR". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 6 May 2019.
5. "Gífurlegir yfirburðir Frakka gegn vængstýfðu liði ÍR-inga". Þjóðviljinn (in Icelandic). 20 January 1965. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
6. "ÍR lék sér að Collegians - 71 stig gegn 17!". Alþýðublaðið (in Icelandic). 11 December 1964. pp. 11, 13. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
7. "Mennirnir á bak við liðið". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 8 January 1965. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
8. "Takmarkið með þáttöku er að öðlast reynslu í harðri keppni". Tíminn (in Icelandic). 10 April 1963. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
9. "Helgi Jóhannsson". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 10 April 2003. Retrieved 6 May 2019.