{"id":143962,"date":"2018-01-25T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/?p=143962"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:20:44","slug":"olafia-thorunn-sportsperson-of-the-year-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/olafia-thorunn-sportsperson-of-the-year-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Sportsperson of the Year 2017 in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, a golfer from the Reykjav\u00edk Golf Club, was named Sportsperson of the Year 2017 in Iceland on December 28 last year (2017).<\/p>\n<p>\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn is the first Icelandic woman to play on the American based LPGA and succeed there too. She has set all kinds of records, e.g. she is the Icelandic woman who has ranked the highest on the Women\u00b4s Rolex World Ranking List.<\/p>\n<p>The election of the Icelandic Association of Sports Reporters, which takes place in Iceland every year in December, took place now for the 62nd time.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn received 422 points out of a total of 540.<\/p>\n<p>The soccer players <strong>Aron Einar Gunnarsson<\/strong> and <strong>Gylfi \u00de\u00f3r Sigur\u00f0sson<\/strong> were second and third.<\/p>\n<p>The golfer <strong>Valdis \u00de\u00f3ra J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> from the Leynir Golf Club, in Akranes was ninth in this election. This is only the third time that two golfers are on the top-10 list of the Sportsperson of the Year election.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time in the 62-year history of the election that a golfer receives honors as Sportsperson of the Year and \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn is only the sixth woman in the history of this award to receive this honor.<\/p>\n<p>The Icelandic Football Team was voted Team of the Year and <strong>Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson<\/strong>, Iceland\u00b4s National football coach, got elected Coach of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Here you can look at the points distribution:<\/p>\n<p><em>Sportsperson of the Year 2017 in Iceland:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong>, Golf &#8211; 422 points<br \/>\n2. Aron Einar Gunnarsson, football player &#8211; 379<br \/>\n3. Gylfi \u00de\u00f3r Sigur\u00f0sson, football player &#8211; 344<br \/>\n4. Anita Hinriksd\u00f3ttir, athlete &#8211; 172<br \/>\n5. Sara Bj\u00f6rk Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir, football player &#8211; 125<br \/>\n6. Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n Valur Sigur\u00f0sson, Handball &#8211; 94<br \/>\n7. J\u00f3hann Berg Gu\u00f0mundsson, football player &#8211; 88<br \/>\n8. Hrafnhildur L\u00fathersd\u00f3ttir, swimming &#8211; 76<br \/>\n9. Vald\u00eds \u00de\u00f3ra J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir, Golf &#8211; 72<br \/>\n10. Helgi Sveinsson, Disabled Sports 47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn Kristinsd\u00f3ttir, a golfer from the Reykjav\u00edk Golf Club, was named Sportsperson of the Year 2017 in Iceland on December 28 last year (2017). \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn is the first Icelandic woman to play on the American based LPGA and succeed there too. She has set all kinds of records, e.g. she is the Icelandic woman who has ranked the highest on the Women\u00b4s Rolex World Ranking List. The election of the Icelandic Association of Sports Reporters, which takes place in Iceland every year in December, took place now for the 62nd time. \u00d3laf\u00eda \u00de\u00f3runn received 422 points out of a total of 540. The soccer players Aron Einar Gunnarsson  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/olafia-thorunn-sportsperson-of-the-year-2017\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":2515,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}