|
Sports in Iceland are very popular. For nine recent years, Iceland remains a very healthy nation. Popular sports include handball, football, athletics, basketball, golf, volleyball, tennis, swimming, and chess; horseback riding on Icelandic horses is also popular and recently Australian Football and Archery. Team handball is often referred to as a national sport. Iceland's team is one of the top ranked teams in the world, winning the silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and a bronze medal in the 2010 European Championship. Icelandic women are good at football, the national team being ranked eighteenth by FIFA. The country's chess clubs have created many chess Grandmasters including Friðrik Ólafsson, Jóhann Hjartarson, Margeir Pétursson, and Jón Loftur Árnason, and Golf is especially common (around 1 in 8 Icelanders play〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=August 25, 2007 )〕), but the oldest sport association in Iceland is the Reykjavik Shooting Association, founded 1867. Rifle shooting became very popular in the 19th century and was heavily encouraged by politicians and others pushing for Icelandic independence. Shooting remains popular and all types of shooting with small arms practiced in the country. Ice and rock climbing are a favorite among many Icelanders; climbing the 4,167-foot (1,270 metre) Þumall peak in Skaftafell is a challenge for many adventurous climbers, but mountain climbing is considered to be suitable for the general public and is a very common type of leisure activity. Hvítá, among many other of the Icelandic glacial rivers, attracts kayakers and river rafters worldwide. Ice hockey is gaining popularity in Iceland, with 1 in 512 of the population an ice hockey player. They have a larger 'hockey density' than Slovakia (1 in 630 people are players). The Iceland national ice hockey team has risen to 38th in the IIHF rankings, and has recently seen a fourth team added to their domestic league.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=August 22, 2010 )〕 Crossfit is also one of the fastest growing sports in Iceland. Most famous athlete is the two times female champion of the crossfit games 2011 and 2012 in Carson City, Anni Thorisdottir. Iceland's most famous athlete comes from the world of football. Eiður Guðjohnsen has played in England's Premier League for Chelsea FC winning the League Title and the Community Shield twice, as well as the League Cup once. He also played in La Liga (Spanish Premier League) for FC Barcelona. In 1991, Iceland were crowned world contract bridge champions, when they won the Bermuda Bowl in Yokohama, Japan. Archery as a sport started in disabled clubs in Iceland 1974 〔http://www.bogfimi.net/page5/bogfimi.html〕 but it's only been a growing sport since 2013. A large part of that growth is a new facility that is opened in Kópavogur in 2013, and it is open to the public and training archers.〔http://www.bogfimisetrid.is/〕〔http://www.bogfimi.net/files/8d85b6801d1568991c4eb810101be655-232.html〕 Archery is one of the oldest Viking sports in Iceland. ==Athletics== In athletics, shot putter Gunnar Huseby became one of the country's first international champions when he won two gold medals at the European Athletics Championships in 1946 and 1950.〔( Afrek Huseby fylltu unga þjóð stolti ) . MBL (1999-02-16). Retrieved on 2014-10-19.〕 Iceland's greatest period of success in the sport was in the 1950s, when Torfi Bryngeirsson was European long jump champion, Vilhjálmur Einarsson was an Olympic and European triple jump medallist, and Örn Clausen was European runner-up in the decathlon.〔(European Athletics Championships ). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-19.〕 Einarsson is the most decorated person of the Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year award, being a five-time winner.〔(Listi yfir íþróttamenn ársins frá upphafi: ) . Icelandic Sport Press. Retrieved on 2014-10-19.〕 Vala Flosadóttir, pole vault medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics, is the country's most successful female track athlete, having set world indoor records and won European and World Indoor medals.〔(Vala Flosadóttir ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-10-19.〕 Decathlete Jón Arnar Magnússon has also won several international indoor medals.〔(Jón Arnar Magnússon ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-10-19.〕 Hreinn Halldórsson was the 1977 European Indoor champion in the shot put (Iceland's sole winner at that competition).〔(European Athletics Indoor Championships ). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-19.〕 The annual Reykjavík Marathon is held in mid-August with around 10,000 people taking part in the various races on offer.〔(Reykjavík Marathon ). Reykjavík Marathon. Retrieved on 2014-10-19.〕 The Laugavegur Ultramarathon, a 55 km running competition, has been held each year since 1997. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sport in Iceland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|