Celine Marie Knudtzon Brun-Lie (born 18 March 1988) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier.

Celine Brun-Lie
Ski clubSK Njård
World Cup career
Seasons9 – (20072015)
Starts91
Podiums8
Wins0
Overall titles0 – (25th in 2013)
Discipline titles0
Medal record
Women's cross-country skiing
Representing  Norway
Junior World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Tarvisio 4 × 3.33 km relay
Gold medal – first place 2008 Mals 4 × 3.33 km relay
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Kranj Individual sprint

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 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, 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, recording a twelfth place in the sprint.[1]

At the 2010 Winter Olympics 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.

She represents the sports club Njård IL,[1] and lives in Trondheim.[2] She is a student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.[3] She has three siblings and speaks Norwegian, English, and French.[4]

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.[5]

Cross-country skiing results

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All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[6]

Olympic Games

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 Year   Age   10 km 
 individual 
 15 km 
 skiathlon 
 30 km 
 mass start 
 Sprint   4 × 5 km 
 relay 
 Team 
 sprint 
2010 21 6 5

World Championships

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 Year   Age   10 km 
 individual 
 15 km 
 skiathlon 
 30 km 
 mass start 
 Sprint   4 × 5 km 
 relay 
 Team 
 sprint 
2009 20 11
2011 22 14
2013 26 24
2015 28 9

World Cup

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Season standings

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 Season   Age  Discipline standings Ski Tour standings
Overall Distance Sprint Nordic
Opening
Tour de
Ski
World Cup
Final
2007 19 92 58
2008 20 63 44
2009 21 27 57 9 26
2010 22 33 42 17 DNF 23
2011 23 38 NC 14 DNF 40
2012 24 82 NC 58 DNF
2013 25 25 52 6 29 24
2014 26 42 73 16 30 35
2015 27 26 NC 7 DNF

Individual podiums

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  • 8 podiums – (5 WC, 3 SWC)
No. Season Date Location Race Level Place
1  2008–09  14 December 2008   Davos, Switzerland 1.4 km Sprint F World Cup 2nd
2  2009–10  4 January 2010   Prague, Czech Republic 1.2 km Sprint F Stage World Cup 2nd
3  2010–11  15 January 2011   Liberec, Czech Republic 1.3 km Sprint F Stage World Cup 3rd
4  2012–13  15 December 2012   Canmore, Canada 1.3 km Sprint F World Cup 3rd
5 1 February 2013   Sochi, Russia 1.25 km Sprint F World Cup 3rd
6  2014–15  5 December 2014   Lillehammer, Norway 1.5 km Sprint F Stage World Cup 2nd
7 14 December 2014   Davos, Switzerland 1.3 km Sprint F World Cup 3rd
8 17 January 2015   Otepää, Estonia 1.2 km Sprint C World Cup 3rd

Team podiums

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  • 5 podiums – (5 TS)
No. Season Date Location Race Level Place Teammate
1 2008–09 21 December 2008   Düsseldorf, Germany 6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint F World Cup 2nd Falla
2 2009–10 6 December 2009   Düsseldorf, Germany 6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint F World Cup 3rd Falla
3 2010–11 5 December 2010   Düsseldorf, Germany 6 × 0.9 km Team Sprint F World Cup 2nd Falla
4 16 January 2011   Liberec, Czech Republic 6 × 1.3 km Team Sprint C World Cup 3rd Gjeitnes
5 2012–13 7 December 2012   Quebec City, Canada 6 × 1.6 km Team Sprint F World Cup 3rd Falla

References

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  1. ^ a b Celine Brun-Lie at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
  2. ^ "Celine Marie Knudtzon Brun-Lie (1988) - Skattelister 2008" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2009.
  3. ^ "Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics | Olympic Videos, Photos, News". Vancouver2010.com. Archived from the original on 2010-04-09. Retrieved 2015-04-25.
  4. ^ [1] Archived October 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Celine Brun-Lie (26) gir seg som toppløper". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 23 February 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Athlete : BRUN-LIE Celine". FIS-Ski. International Ski Federation. Retrieved 22 March 2018.