17 Aug 2016Icelandic 800 m runner Aníta Hinriksdóttir ran the race of her life in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games today, breaking her own Icelandic record – but an unlucky heat draw means that the Icelander has not qualified for the semi-finals.
16 Aug 2016Iceland competed at the Summer Olympic Games for the first time in 1912, and since then Icelandic sportsmen and women have won four Olympic medals – two silver and two bronze.
10 Aug 2016Iceland’s Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir finished sixth in the 100m breaststroke at the Rio 2016 on Monday – one of the best Icelandic Olympic results ever in an individual event.
8 Aug 2016Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir’s success is greater than any other Icelandic female swimmer, she qualified for the finals of 100m breaststroke in the Olympics. “I think I still have more give and I hope that will show, everything can happen in the finals.”
17 Jul 2016With less than a month to go to the opening ceremony of 2016 of the Rio Olympic Games in Brazil, eight Icelanders have secured the right to represent their country.
