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Guðmundur Þórður Guðmundsson (born 23 December 1960) is an Icelandic retired handball player and current coach of the Bahrain national team.
He was the head coach of the Iceland national handball team. Under his command the Iceland national team received a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and bronze medal at the 2010 European Championship in Austria.
Guðmundur is ranked with Dagur Sigurðsson his fellow countryman, who is the current national team coach of Germany's Men's team and another, Alfreð Gíslason, coach of THW Kiel amongst the best coaches of our era.
In October 2013, it was announced that Guðmundur would take over the coaching role of Ulrik Wilbek as Head Coach of Denmark national handball team from 1 July 2014. On August 21, 2016 Guðmundur led his team to the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He announced in November 2016 that he would not renew his contract when it expires on 1 July 2017. It was reported in April 2017 that he would take over the Bahrain national handball team.
He has cited former coach Bogdan Kowalczyk as a major influence.