Stine Brun Kjeldaas

Stine Brun Kjeldaas ( born April 23, 1975 in Kongsberg ) is a former Norwegian snowboarder.

Kjeldaas, which launched for the Kongsberg IF, already her snowboard career began early on the halfpipe. In the Snowboard World Cup 1993 in Ischgl she won the bronze medal behind Martina Tschamer and Tricia Byrnes. Two years later she repeated this success at the Snowboard World Cup in 1995 in Davos, Switzerland. In the Snowboard World Cup 1997 in San Candido, she was surprisingly only 13 and remained so after 1993 and 1995 fell short of expectations.

On February 16, 1997, she launched the first time in the FIS Snowboard World Cup and has already won her first World Cup in the Japanese Kanbayashi. In the following World Cups they could up to the competition in Austria Hintertux, where it was at the end of tithing, always jump on the podium.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in 1998 they could win on the half-pipe behind the German Nicola Thost and before the US-American Shannon Dunn - Downing the silver medal.

In the Snowboard World Championship 2001 in Madonna di Campiglio Kjeldaas won silver. At the Olympic Winter Games in 2002 she stepped in again, but had to settle for a 13th place.

2004 ended Kjeldaas their active career. She is married to the Dutch snowboarder Cheryl Maas. The couple has one child.

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