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Pétur Rúnar Birgisson

Icelandic basketball player (born 1996)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ47315951 ↗
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Pétur Rúnar Birgisson (born 20 February 1996) is an Icelandic basketball player who plays for Tindastóll of the Úrvalsdeild karla. He won the Icelandic championship in 2023 and the Icelandic Cup in 2018 with Tindastóll.

Career

Club career

Pétur had a stellar 2014-2015 season and helped Tindastóll to the 2015 Úrvalsdeild finals after averaging 7.8 assists in the semi-finals against Haukar. In the finals, Tindastóll lost to KR 3-1.

His stellar play continued in 2015-2016. He averaged 13.5 points and 6.0 assists in Tindastóls 3-1 victory against Keflavík in the first round of the playoffs. He was however unable to prevent Tindastóll from losing to Haukar in the semi-finals, 3-1.

On 13 January 2018 he helped Tindastóll to its first major title when they beat KR in Icelandic Basketball Cup finals. In the game he had 22 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds, and was named as the Cup finals MVP.

On 4 May 2018 Pétur was named to the Úrvalsdeild Karla Domestic All-First Team. On 30 September, he won the Icelandic Super Cup after Tindastóll beat KR, 103-72.

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“Pétur Rúnar Birgisson” enters the record as icelandic basketball player (born 1996). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pétur, Rúnar and Birgisson can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q47315951. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2023, 2018 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pétur Rúnar Birgisson” 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.