Celine Brun-Lie

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

Celine Brun - Lie, sister of the biathlete Thekla Brun - Lie, studied at the Technical and Norwegian University of Science and starts for the club Njård. Her first international race she contested in November 2004 in Gålå at the FIS Cup. Quite soon they reached good results here. In January 2006 she took part in Kranj on their first World Youth Championship, where she won behind Astrid Jacobsen and Natalia Matwejewa the bronze medal in the sprint competition. In December of that year, she won in a sprint Gaalaa with her ​​first FIS races. At the Junior World Championships in 2007 in Tarvisio missed Brun - Lie in fourth in the sprint for another medal. At the end of the season 2006/ 07, the young Norwegian was first used in Stockholm in the Cross Country World Cup; while the sprint specialist than 20 could collect World Cup points for the first time. At the start of the following season finished Brun - Lie in Dusseldorf 30th place in the sprint and together with Sigrid Aas 13th in the team sprint. In Rybinsk she came in tenth in the sprint for the first time in the top ten in the World Cup. In the Norwegian Championships 2008 in Skistadion Granåsen in Trondheim they missed in fourth just a medal. The Junior World Championships in Malles brought mixed results. Brun - Lie was second in the sprint qualification to compete but only reached number 13 in the race over five kilometers was only 28 Far better it ran with the Norwegian season. Together with Therese Johaug, Ingvild Flugstad Østberg and Marthe Kristoffersen she won the gold medal in the relay race. End of the year, the Norwegian sprint race in Davos as second only beaten by Petra Majdič first time achieve a podium finish. A little later she managed a second place again with Maiken Caspersen Falla in the team sprint in Dusseldorf.