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Jón Eggert Guðmundsson (born 13 November 1967;  is an Icelandic adventurer, long distance athlete and author. In August 2006 he was the first person to walk the longest route around Iceland 3446 km

Early life
Born in Hafnarfjordur Iceland, he excelled at sports at an early age, and later found his physical and mental passion in walking and doing long distance bicycling.

Adventures and endurance experience
His first notable success was strandvegagangan. A 3446 km (2153 mile) walk around Iceland 2006. In the years after he conquered the following:
 * Longest route around Iceland on a bicycle 2016 3446 km
 * Did a Guinness world record attempt in longest triathlon in the world 2018 7576 km or 4707 miles. (Guinness is analyzing the data).
 * Rode a bicycle the east coast of USA and Canada from Florida to Halifax Nova Scotia 2019 4,162 km (2,586 miles)
 * Rode a bicycle across USA from Florida to California 2020 3,770 km (2,343 miles)

Bibliography English

 * Cycling The East Coast Greenway ISBN-13 : 978-1703140699
 * Cycling the Southern Tier ISBN-13 : 979-8654170767

Bibliography Icelandic

 * Bandaríkin hjóluð ISBN-13 : 979-8663753180
 * Strandvegagangan ISBN-13 : 979-8656806206
 * Austurströndin hjóluð ISBN-13 : 978-1699712948