Birgir Örn Birgisson

Birgir Örn Birgisson
No. 69 – Vestri
Position	Forward / center
League	2. deild karla
Personal information
Born	6 October 1969 (age 55); Ísafjörður, Iceland
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	220 lb (100 kg)
Career information
Playing career	1990–present
Number	11, 34, 69
Coaching career	2003–2019
Career history
As player:
1990–1991	Bolungarvík
1991–1996	Þór Akureyri
1996–1999	Keflavík
1999–2000	Stuttgart Feuerbach
2000–2001	Keflavík
2001–2006	SG Sechtem
2014–2016	KFÍ
2017–2021	Vestri-b
2022–present	Vestri
As coach:
2003–2006	SG Sechtem
2010	BG Bonn MTUs
2012–2013	Telekom Baskets Bonn
2013–2016	KFÍ
2017–2019	Vestri-b
Career highlights and awards
	As player:; 2× Icelandic league champion (1997, 1999); Icelandic Cup winner (1997); Icelandic Super Cup winner (1997); Icelandic Division I winner (1994);

Birgir Örn Birgisson (born 6 October 1969) is an Icelandic basketball coach and a former professional player who played 26 games for the Icelandic national basketball team. He won two national championships with Keflavík in 1997 and 1999.^[2] Before turning to basketball, Birgir had a successful career in swimming and was a member of the Icelandic national swimming team.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Basketball

Following his swimming career, Birgir took up basketball with Bolungarvík in 1990 at the age of 21. After one season, he transferred to Þór Akureyri where he played for five seasons and was selected to the Icelandic national basketball team for the first time. In 1996, he joined Keflavík where he won the national championship in 1997 and 1999 as well as the Icelandic Cup in 1997. In 1999, he moved to Germany where he played and coached, aside from the 2001–2002 season, until 2014 when he moved to his hometown of Ísafjörður to coach KFÍ (later known as Vestri). In 2022, at the age of 53, he made a comeback with Vestri in the third-tier 2. deild karla.^[6]