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Granit (name)
Granit may refer to the following people: ;Given name *Granit Lekaj (born 1990), Kosovo–born Swiss–Albanian football player *Granit Rugova (born 1985), Kosovan basketball player * Granit Taropin Granit Taropin was born in the city of Peltun on North Sakhalin Island in Russia on February 23, 1940. In high school Taropin first became interested in wrestling after reading a booklet about a wrestler from Tula. After he graduated in 1958, he ... (born 1940), Russian wrestling coach * Granit Xhaka (born 1992), Swiss-Albanian football player ;Surname * Ragnar Granit (1900–1991), Finnish scientist * Yalçın Granit (born 1932), Turkish basketball player, coach and sports journalist {{Given name, type=both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granit Lekaj
Granit Lekaj (born 23 February 1990) is a Kosovan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back and Captain for Winterthur. Career Lekaj is a product of the youth academies of FC Pfäffikon and Winterthur, beginning his senior career with the reserves of the latter in 2008, before promoting to their senior team in 2010. He transferred to Wil on 20 July 2011. After four years at Wil and 121 appearances and 2 goals, he moved to Schaffhausen on 30 July 2015. He returned to Wil on 21 July 2017. On 5 June 2018, Lekaj returned to his first club Winterthur on 5 June 2018. He became the captain of the club on 9 October 2021. He captained the team win the 2021–22 Swiss Challenge League and earn promotion into the Swiss Super League for the 2022–23 season. Personal life Born in Pristina, present day Kosovo, Lekaj moved to Switzerland at a young age. Honours Winterthur * Swiss Challenge League The Challenge League is the second-highest tier of the Swiss football league system ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granit Rugova
Granit Rugova (born November 13, 1985) is a Kosovan former professional basketball player and was a member of the Kosovo national team. Career Rugova started his career in Sigal Prishtina and played there until 2005, at which time he left to play for Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas, United States. In 2008, he came back to Sigal Prishtina to play there until 2013 when he had an injury that left him out of the court for almost 2 years. On August 10, 2015, he signed a one-year contract for KB Bashkimi. In August 2016, Rugova signed a two-year contract for Sigal Prishtina. On March 30, 2011, he scored a career-high 110 points against KB Mitrovica which is a record in Kosovo Basketball Superleague The Kosovo Basketball Superleague (Albanian: Superliga e Kosovës në Basketboll) and known as the ArtMotion Superliga due to sponsorship reasons is the top men's professional basketball league in Kosovo. Basketball Superleague was founded in 1991 ... history. See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granit Taropin
Granit Taropin was born in the city of Peltun on North Sakhalin Island in Russia on February 23, 1940. In high school Taropin first became interested in wrestling after reading a booklet about a wrestler from Tula. After he graduated in 1958, he went to Tula in the hopes of finding this wrestler. While there, he became a Master of Sports in wrestling at the age of 20. Then, in 1961 he entered a sports college in Malakhovka near Moscow. After he graduated in 1963, he went to the Institute of Sports in Smolensk, where he stayed until he graduated in 1967. After he received his degree from the Institute of Sports, he began his first job as a professional coach in Kaliningrad where he would spend the next 10 years. While in Kaliningrad, he worked at a children’s sports school with over two hundred wrestlers at a time. It was at this time when he first met his most famous wrestlers, Anatoly and Sergei Beloglazov. When Taropin finally left Kaliningrad in 1977, he moved to Kiev as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granit Xhaka
Granit Xhaka (born 27 September 1992) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Arsenal and the Switzerland national team. Xhaka began his career at hometown club FC Basel, winning the Swiss Super League in each of his first two seasons. He then moved to Bundesliga team Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2012, developing a reputation as a technically gifted player and natural leader alongside criticism for his temperament. He was made captain of Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2015 at the age of 22, leading the team to UEFA Champions' League qualification for a second successive season. He completed a high-profile transfer to Arsenal in May 2016 for a fee in the region of £30 million. He later became vice captain of the club. Xhaka was part of the Swiss team that won the 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup. He made his senior debut in 2011 and has won over 110 caps, representing the nation at the FIFA World Cup in 2014, 2018 and 2022 and the UEFA European Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnar Granit
Ragnar Arthur Granit (30 October 1900 – 12 March 1991) was a Finnish-Swedish scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye". Early life and education Ragnar Arthur Granit was born on 30 October 1900 in Riihimäki, Finland, at the time part of the Russian Empire, into a Swedish-speaking Finnish family. Granit was raised in Oulunkylä, a suburb of the Finnish capital of Helsinki, and attended the Svenska normallyceum in Helsinki. Granit graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Helsinki in 1927. Career and research In 1940, when Finland became the target of a massive Soviet attack during the Winter War, Granit sought refuge – and peaceful surroundings for his studies and research work – in Stockholm, the capital of neighbouring Sweden, at the age of 40. In 1941, Granit re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
