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Kristinn Þór Kristinsson

Icelandic athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ16210447 ↗
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Kristinn Thór Kristinsson (born 7 September 1989) is an Icelandic middle-distance runner. He competed in the 800 metres event at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

His father is footballer Kristinn Björnsson who played for the Icelandic national team and won the Norwegian championship in 1981.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2014, 1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-09-07. The account is most persuasive where Kristinn, Kristinsson and Icelandic can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16210447. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2014 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kristinn Þór Kristinsson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.