Ingi Þór Steinþórsson
Icelandic basketball coach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ingi Þór Steinþórsson (born 9 May 1972) is an Icelandic professional basketball coach. He last coached Úrvalsdeild karla club KR.
Stjarnan | |
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Position | Assistant coach |
League | Úrvalsdeild karla |
Personal information | |
Born | (1972-05-09) 9 May 1972 (age 52) Iceland |
Nationality | Icelandic |
Coaching career | 1998–present |
Career history | |
As coach: | |
1998-1999 | KR (Men's, assistant) |
1999–2004 | KR (Men's) |
2008-2009 | KR (Men's, assistant) |
2009–2018 | Snæfell (Men's) |
2009–2018 | Snæfell (Women's) |
2018-2020 | KR (Men's) |
2020-present | Stjarnan (Men's, assistant) |
Career highlights and awards | |
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As assistant coach:
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As head coach, Ingi Þór has won the Icelandic men's national championship and the women's national championship three times each. He was named Úrvalsdeild karla Coach of the Year in 2010,[1] when he won the Úrvalsdeild karla title with the Snæfell[2] while also being named Úrvalsdeild kvenna Coach of the Year three times, in 2014–2016, when he led Snæfell women's team to a three-peat.[3]
Ingi Þór served as an assistant coach at KR from 1998 to 1999 and 2008–2009, helping the club win the national championship in 2009.[4][5]
On 12 June 2018 he was introduced as the next head coach of the reigning men's national champions, KR, replacing Finnur Freyr Stefánsson.[6][7] On 4 May 2019, he won his third Úrvalsdeild karla championship when KR beat ÍR 3–2 in the finals.[8] He led KR to a 14–7 record during the 2019–20 season before the last game and the playoffs were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Iceland. In May 2020, he was fired from his post.[9] Less than two weeks later, he was hired as an assistant coach to Stjarnan.[10]
On 19 March 2022, he won the Icelandic Basketball Cup when Stjarnan defeated reigning national champions Þór Þorlákshöfn in the 2022 Cup Finals.[11]