Celine BRUN-LIE

START OF THE SPORTING CAREER

• Started skiing when I was one year old. Skied 14 km before the age of three. Has competed in 11 different sports and chose cross country at the age of 15.

CAREER

• Celine Brun-Lie won a bronze medal at the 2006 Junior World Ski Championships
• She 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 (with Astrid Jacobsen) in the Team Sprint
• At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo in 2011 she finished in 14th place in the sprint free and two years later in Val di Fiemme she took 24th place in the sprint classic

PERSONAL

• She represents the sports club Njård IL, and currently lives in Trondheim
• She is a student at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• One younger brother and two younger sisters.
• Celine Brun-Lie has three siblings and speaks Norwegian, English, and French.