Guðbjörg Guttormsdóttir

Icelandic figure skater (born 1989)

Guðbjörg Guttormsdóttir
National Champion 2012
Born	(1989-11-06) November 6, 1989 (age 34) Reykjavík, Iceland
Hometown	Reykjavík
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Figure skating career
Country	Iceland
Coach	Nikolay Shashkov
Skating club	Reykjavík Skating Club
Began skating	1998
Retired	2013

Guðbjörg Guttormsdóttir (born November 6, 1989) is a retired Icelandic figure skater. She is the 2012 National Champion,^[1] 2008 Junior bronze medalist and 2005 Novice silver medalist. She also has a gold from Reykjvík International Games 2013.^[2]

Career

She started skating in 1998 at the Reykjavík Skating Club where her main coaches were Jennifer Molin and Guillaume Kermen and later Nikolay Shashkov. During summers she skated in Sweden and USA with Molin and in France with Patrice Paillares. During 2009-2010 she skated in Vancouver B.C at the Vancouver Skating Club with coach Adam Zalegowski [pl]^[a] but did not compete that year.

She represented the Icelandic National team at three Nordic Championships, twice as junior in 2008^[3] and 2009,^[4] and once as senior in 2013.^[5]

Guðbjörg is the oldest of four sisters, all of which have skated. She later turned to coaching and judging and holds a national Technical Specialist licence.^[6]

She studied biology at the University of Iceland from 2010 to 2017 graduating with a MSc. degree and is currently working as a microbiologist.^[7]

Guðbjörg retired from competitive skating 2013.

Programs

Season	Short program	Free skating
2012–2013	Sur les ailes du temps by Saint-Preux	Godfather Soundtrack by David Davidson and Edvin Marton
2011–2012	Secret Garden, Soundtrack by Zbigniew Preisner	Godfather Soundtrack by David Davidson and Edvin Marton
2007–2009	Hava Nagila	Narnia Soundtrack by Harry Gregson-Williams

Competitive highlights

International
Event	07–08	08–09	09–10	10–11	11–12	12–13
International
Nordics	19th J.	20th J.				12th S.
Reykjavik International Games						1st S.
National
Icelandic Championships	3rd J.				1st S.
J. = Junior level, S. = Senior level

Notes

^ Adam Załęgowski (born 1978) - Polish figure skater, participant of the Polish Championships and international competitions. After ending his sports career, he started working as a coach, initially in Warsaw (2000–2005; his pupils included, among others, Laura Czarnotta^[8] and Sebastian Iwasaki^[9]) and then in Canada (2005–2012)^[10] and Australia (from 2012).^[11] He is considered a specialist in learning harness jumping.

References

Citations

^ Senior ladies Results 2012.
^ Senior ladies Results 2013.
^ Junior ladies Results Nordics 2008.
^ Junior ladies Results Nordics 2009.
^ Senior ladies Results Nordics 2013.
^ Technical Specialist.
^ Meistarapróf í Læknadeild H.Í.
^ Laura Czarnotta on ISU
^ Sebastian Iwasaki on ISU
^ Adam Załęgowski on the pages of Skate Canada
^ Adam Załęgowski on the website of the Australian club

Sources

"Íslandsmót". www.iceskate.is. 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
"Reykjavík International Games 2013". www.iceskate.is. 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
"Nordics 2008". February 9, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-02-09. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
"Nordics 2009". July 25, 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
"Nordics 2013". www.skautasamband.is. 2013. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
"Icelandic National level TS". www.iceskate.is. 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
"Meistarapróf í Læknadeild H.Í." [MSc. Degree in the Faculty of Medicine at Háskóla Íslands]. www.keldur.is (in Icelandic). 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2020.