{{BLP sources|date=February 2025}}{{Short description|Norwegian sailor}} '''Knut Mauritz Frostad''' (born 4 June 1967 in Harstad, Norway) is a Norwegian yachtsman, who has participated in a broad range of world championship level sailing events, including the Volvo Ocean Race and the Olympic Games, the latter in windsurfing.
He has twice participated in the Olympic Games (1988 and 1992)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://members.sailing.org/sailors/biog.php?memberid=122437|title=Sailor Biography|work=sailing.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thehumanelement.no/downloads/articles/Zine_Article_0605.pdf/download |title = Contact Support |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222234942/http://www.thehumanelement.no/downloads/articles/Zine_Article_0605.pdf/download |archive-date=22 February 2013 |url-status=dead |website=thehumanelement.no}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Vela |first=Giornale della |date=2022-09-29 |title=THE INTERVIEW Knut Frostad, the manager-sailor who wants to change the world |url=https://www.giornaledellavela.com/2022/09/29/the-interview-knut-frostad-the-manager-sailor-who-wants-to-change-the-world/?lang=en |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Giornale della Vela |language=en-US}}</ref> and four times the Volvo Ocean Race, twice as skipper.
In 2004, he won the Scandinavian Nokia Oops Cup and, in 2005, he finished second.
In 2024, he was appointed Executive Chairman of Henri Lloyd.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Karsten |first=Milly |date=2024-03-08 |title=Knut Frostad joins Henri-Lloyd as Executive Chairman |url=https://www.sailingtoday.co.uk/news/knut-frostad-joins-henri-lloyd-as-executive-chairman/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Sailing Today |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Volvo Ocean Race== His first participation in 1993-94 VOR was in the Swedish ''Intrum Justitia'' which finished second.
In the 1997-98 VOR he was skipper and project founder/director at the Norwegian ''Innovation Kværner'' and in the 2001-02 VOR in the Norwegian ''Djuice Dragons''.
In the 2005-06 VOR he was watchplan captain on Southern Ocean legs in the Brazilian ''Brasil 1''.
He was the chief executive for the 2008–09 and the 2011-2012 Volvo Ocean Race, and has returned as the CEO for the 2014-2015 race.
For the 2014-2015 race he led the transformation of the race from an open class rule to a strict one-design class boat race.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{World Sailing|id=NORKF5|www=knut-frostad}} * {{Olympics.com profile|knut-frostad}} * {{Olympedia}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Frostad, Knut}} Category:1967 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Harstad Municipality Category:Norwegian male sailors (sport) Category:Olympic sailors for Norway Category:Sailors at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Flying Dutchman Category:Volvo Ocean Race sailors Category:20th-century Norwegian sportsmen
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