{"id":75449,"date":"2013-08-02T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.golf1.is\/?p=75449"},"modified":"2013-08-02T22:30:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T22:30:14","slug":"12-icelandic-teenagers-participated-in-the-finnish-international-junior-championship-gisli-sveinbergsson-claimed-2nd-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/12-icelandic-teenagers-participated-in-the-finnish-international-junior-championship-gisli-sveinbergsson-claimed-2nd-place\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Icelandic teenagers participated in the Finnish International Junior Championship – G\u00edsli Sveinbergsson claimed 2nd place!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were twelve contestants from Iceland playing in the annual Finnish International Junior Championship tournament which took place June 26th-28th 2013 in June Cooke stadium in Vierum\u00e4ki, Finland. There were 4 categories boys and girls 15-16 yrs and boys and girls 14 yrs and younger.<\/p>\n

There were 102 Finns who competed along with an international contestants from a total of 54 countries from all over the world, a.o. from\u00a0Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Turkey a.s.o.<\/p>\n

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G\u00edsli Sveinbergsson, GK, Icelandic Champion in Match Play in the category of boys 15-16 claimed 2nd place in Vierum\u00e4ki, Finland after sudden death with Finnish contestant Valimar, who won the tournament.<\/p><\/div>\n

The following contestants were from Iceland: Birgir Bj\u00f6rn Magn\u00fasson<\/strong> GK, Gisli Sveinbergsso<\/strong>n GK, Fannar Ingi Steingr\u00edmsson<\/strong> GHG, Henning Darri \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0arson<\/strong> GK, Kristj\u00e1n Benedikt Sveinsson<\/strong> GHD, Ragnhildur Kristinsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> GR, Birta D\u00eds J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> GHD, Ger\u00f0ur Ragnarsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> GR, \u00d3l\u00f6f Maria Einarsd\u00f3ttir<\/strong> GHD, \u00d3\u00f0inn \u00de\u00f3r R\u00edkhar\u00f0sson<\/strong> GKG, Krist\u00f3fer Orri \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0arson<\/strong> GKG, Arn\u00f3r Sn\u00e6r Gu\u00f0mundsson<\/strong> GHD.<\/p>\n

\u00dalfar J\u00f3nsson<\/strong>, national trainer of Team Iceland and Hei\u00f0ar David Bragason<\/strong>\u00a0golf teacher, accompanied the 12 youths.<\/p>\n

“Conditions are very good, a golf course is really good and the greens much faster than we know at home. There is also much more heat and sun. This tournament is well organized by the Finnish Golf Union and it seems to be going to be a\u00f0 fun competition. Being involved in such a way isvery important for our younger players, them being able to try their best in challenging situations and against strong foreign competitors. Some of them are taking part for the first time abroad and for them the goal is primarily to gain experience, while others are already ahead and have some experience abroad and high expectations,” said \u00dalfar J\u00f3nsson<\/p>\n

Last year Fannar Ingi \u00a0Steingr\u00edmsson<\/strong>, GHG garnered 3rd place in the category of boys 14 years and younger and this year this was topped by G\u00edsli Sveinbergsson<\/strong>, who claimed 2nd place in the category of boys 15-16 yrs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were twelve contestants from Iceland playing in the annual Finnish International Junior Championship tournament which took place June 26th-28th 2013 in June Cooke stadium in Vierum\u00e4ki, Finland. There were 4 categories boys and girls 15-16 yrs and boys and girls 14 yrs and younger. There were 102 Finns who competed along with an international contestants from a total of 54 countries from all over the world, a.o. from\u00a0Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Turkey a.s.o. The following contestants were from Iceland: Birgir Bj\u00f6rn Magn\u00fasson GK, Gisli Sveinbergsson GK, Fannar Ingi Steingr\u00edmsson GHG, Henning Darri \u00de\u00f3r\u00f0arson GK, Kristj\u00e1n Benedikt Sveinsson GHD, Ragnhildur Kristinsd\u00f3ttir GR, Birta D\u00eds J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir GHD, Ger\u00f0ur Ragnarsd\u00f3ttir GR, \u00d3l\u00f6f Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75450,"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-75449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","cat-7-id"],"acf":[],"views":1607,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75449","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=75449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golf1.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}