Sports in Iceland are very popular. Popular sports include football, handball, athletics, basketball, chess, golf, volleyball, tennis, skiing, snowboarding, ice hockey, swimming, rock climbing, mountain climbing, horseback riding (specially on Icelandic horses), archery, strongman, powerlifting and crossfit. In some of those sports, namely football, handball, basketball and strongman, Iceland is extremely successful, considering its population. It manages to compete at comparable level with countries that have 10-200 times its population.
Iceland's most famous athlete comes from the world of football. Eiður Guðjohnsen has played in England's Premier League for Chelsea F.C. winning the league title and the Community Shield twice, as well as the League Cup once. He also played in La Liga for FC Barcelona, where he was part of the team that won the Treble of the league, Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League in the 2008–09 season.
the European Athletics Championships in 1946 and 1950. Iceland's greatest period of success in the sport was in the 1950s, when Torfi Bryngeirsson was...
Women inIceland generally enjoy good gender equality. As of 2018, 88% of working-age women were employed, 65% of students attending university were female...
Football is the most popular sportinIceland. Iceland hosted the U-18 European Championship in 1997, but an Icelandic national team has qualified for...
Iceland (Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
trouser-grip (brókartök) version is by far the most widespread inIceland and is Iceland's national sport. It favours technique over strength. The wrestlers wear...
The Iceland national football team (Icelandic: Íslenska karlalandsliðið í knattspyrnu) represents Icelandin men's international football. The team is...
minor sportinIceland with a discontinuous history. The ancient Norse had a sport called knattleikr; while this differed substantially from rugby in that...
Icelandic equitation is the traditional style of riding of Iceland. It is closely associated with the Icelandic horse.: 10 : 13 The basis of Icelandic...
in the sport so far when he finished 14th in men's 10m air pistol in 2012. Iceland first competed in swimming in 1948 and has competed in the sport most...
21 Olympic Summer and three Winter Sport Federations and four Non-Olympic Sports Federations inIceland. Iceland at the Olympics ÍSÍ Hall of Fame "Íþrótta-...
Cricket is a growing sportinIceland, involving five club teams (Reykjavík Vikings, Kópavogur Puffins, Garðabær Glaciers, Vesturbær Volcano and Hafnarfjörður...
Icelandic population was just over 376,000. About 86,000 residents (23.7%) were of foreign background. About 99% of the nation's inhabitants live in urban...
Iceland (Icelandic: Rugby Ísland) is the governing body for rugby inIceland. It oversees the various national teams and the development of the sport...
recorded history of Iceland began with the settlement by Viking explorers and the people they enslaved from Western Europe, particularly in modern-day Norway...
InIceland, the Police (Icelandic: Ríkislögreglan, lit. 'the State Police') is the national police force of Iceland. It is responsible for law enforcement...
The University of Iceland (Icelandic: Háskóli Íslands [ˈhauːˌskouːlɪ ˈistlan(t)s]) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's...
Telecommunications inIceland is a diversified market. The first submarine telegraph cable connection to the British Isles reached Seyðisfjörður inIcelandin 1906...
Iceland is an island country at the confluence of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, east of Greenland and immediately south of the Arctic Circle,...
The system of education inIceland is divided in four levels: playschool, compulsory, upper secondary and higher, and is similar to that of other Nordic...
Íþróttafélagið Fylkir is a multi-sport club in Árbær, in the eastern part of Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. It features departments in football, handball, volleyball...
For centuries Iceland's main industries were fishing, fish processing and agriculture. In the 19th century, 70–80% of Icelanders lived by farming, but...
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