# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/orir-hergeirsson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:27:39.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/orir-hergeirsson"
name: "Þórir Hergeirsson"
slug: "orir-hergeirsson"
description: "Þórir Hergeirsson is an Icelandic handball coach and former player. He is one of the most decorated national team coaches in handball history and won seventeen championship medals with the Norwegian women's national team during a fifteen-year reign, including two Olympic gold medals, three World Championships titles and six European Championships titles. Þórir coached clubs Elverum, Gjerpen and Nærbø, before becoming the assistant coach of the Norwegian national team in 2001 and succeeding Marit Breivik as head coach in 2009. He stepped down from the national team in December 2024."
tagline: "Icelandic handball coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thorir_Hergeirsson_20150319.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-04-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.4
  momentum:             1.798561151079137
  historical:           10.07257066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8545729/"
    handle:    "nm8545729"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B3rir_Hergeirsson"
    title: "Þórir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B3rir_Hergeirsson"
    title: "Þórir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B3rir_Hergeirsson"
    title: "Þórir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B3rir_Hergeirsson"
    title: "Þórir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B3rir_Hergeirsson"
    title: "Þórir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B3rir_Hergeirsson"
    title: "Þórir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B3rir_Hergeirsson"
    title: "Þórir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorir_Hergeirsson"
    title: "Thorir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorir_Hergeirsson"
    title: "Thorir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorir_Hergeirsson"
    title: "Thorir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%80_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%80%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Торир Хергейрссон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335852"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3404199"
    title: "Thorir Hergeirsson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump