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

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debut in March 2007 in

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, with a twentieth place. She recorded her first top-ten result in December 2007, with a tenth place in

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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

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. She also competed at the

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, recording a twelfth place in the sprint. At the

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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

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. She represents the sports club Njård IL, and lives in

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. She is a student at the

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. 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

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Brun-Lie, Celine 1988 births Living people Norwegian female cross-country skiers Olympic cross-country skiers for Norway Cross-country skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics Skiers from Oslo 21st-century Norwegian sportswomen