Knut Erling Granaas (born 21 April 1967 in Asker) is a Norwegian sledge hockey goaltender. He lost both legs in a traffic accident, and began to compete in sledge hockey in 1992. He has won a gold medal (

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

) and two silver medals (

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

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) at the

Winter Paralympics The Winter Paralympic Games is an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete in snow and ice sports. The event includes athletes with mobility impairments, amputations, blindness, and cerebral palsy. Th ...

Honours

2002 Winter Paralympics The 2002 Winter Paralympics, the eighth Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, from March 7 to 16, 2002. A total of 416 athletes from 36 nations participated. They were the first Winter Paralympics in the Ameri ...

**Silver * 2000 World Championships **Silver *

1998 Winter Paralympics The , the seventh Paralympic Winter Games, were held alongside the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan from 5 to 14 March 1998. They were the first Paralympic Winter Games to be held outside Europe. 571 athletes competed in Nagano; as 2022 it remain ...

**Gold *

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**Silver *

1994 Winter Paralympics The 1994 Winter Paralympics ( no, Paralympiske vinterleker 1994; nn, Paralympiske vinterleikane 1994), the sixth Paralympic Winter Games, were held in Lillehammer, Norway, from 10 to 19 March 1994. These Games marked the second time the Paraly ...

**Silver

Awards

*2005 – Norges Funksjonshemmedes Idrettsforbunds Idrettsplakett

References

1967 births Living people Norwegian sledge hockey players Paralympic sledge hockey players for Norway Ice sledge hockey players at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Ice sledge hockey players at the 1998 Winter Paralympics Ice sledge hockey players at the 2002 Winter Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Norway Paralympic silver medalists for Norway Medalists at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2002 Winter Paralympics Paralympic medalists in sledge hockey 20th-century Norwegian people 21st-century Norwegian people {{Norway-Paralympic-medalist-stub