Celine Marie Knudtzon Brun-Lie (born 18 March 1988) is a Norwegian former
cross-country skier.
She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Junior World Ski Championships, recorded a fourth place at the 2007 Junior World Ski Championships and won a gold medal in relay at the 2008 Junior World Ski Championships. She made her
World Cup
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debut in March 2007 in
Stockholm, with a twentieth place. She recorded her first top-ten result in December 2007, with a tenth place in
Rybinsk
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, and finished on the podium for the first time in December 2008, when she finished second in the sprint race in
Davos. She also competed at the
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
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, recording a twelfth place in the sprint.
At the
2010 Winter Olympics
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in Vancouver she reached the finals of both her events, coming sixth in the
Individual Sprint and fifth (with
Astrid Jacobsen) in the
Team Sprint
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.
She represents the sports club
Njård IL,
[ and lives in ]Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
. She is a student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has three siblings and speaks Norwegian, English, and French.
In February 2015, Brun-Lie announced that she was retiring from top-level skiing after the 2015 season, aiming to complete her civil engineer studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
World Championships
World Cup
Season standings
Individual podiums
*8 podiums – (5 , 3 )
Team podiums
* 5 podiums – (5 )
References
Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Living people
Norwegian female cross-country skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for Norway
Skiers from Oslo
1988 births
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