Celine Brun-Lie


Celine Marie Knudtzon Brun-Lie is a Norwegian 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 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.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver she reached the finals of both her events, coming sixth in the Individual Sprint and fifth in the Team Sprint.
She represents the sports club Njård IL, and lives in Trondheim. 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.

Olympic results

World Championship results

World Cup results

All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation.

World Cup standings

Individual podiums

No.SeasonDateLocationRaceLevelPlace
1 2008–09 14 December 2008 Davos, Switzerland1.4 km Sprint FWorld Cup2nd
2 2009–10 4 January 2010 Prague, Czech Republic1.2 km Sprint FStage World Cup2nd
3 2010–11 15 January 2011 Liberec, Czech Republic1.3 km Sprint FStage World Cup3rd
4 2012–13 15 December 2012 Canmore, Canada1.3 km Sprint FWorld Cup3rd
5 2012–13 1 February 2013 Sochi, Russia1.25 km Sprint FWorld Cup3rd
6 2014–15 5 December 2014 Lillehammer, Norway1.5 km Sprint FStage World Cup2nd
7 2014–15 14 December 2014 Davos, Switzerland1.3 km Sprint FWorld Cup3rd
8 2014–15 17 January 2015 Otepää, Estonia1.2 km Sprint CWorld Cup3rd

Team podiums

No.SeasonDateLocationRaceLevelPlaceTeammate
12008–0921 December 2008 Düsseldorf, Germany6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup2ndFalla
22009–106 December 2009 Düsseldorf, Germany6 × 0.8 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup3rdFalla
32010–115 December 2010 Düsseldorf, Germany6 × 0.9 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup2ndFalla
42010–1116 January 2011 Liberec, Czech Republic6 × 1.3 km Team Sprint CWorld Cup3rdGjeitnes
52012–137 December 2012 Quebec City, Canada6 × 1.6 km Team Sprint FWorld Cup3rdFalla