Kristina Brounéus

Kristina Brounéus
Full name	Eva Kristina Birgitta Brounéus
Association	Sweden
birthday	November 25, 1974
place of birth	Ramsele
Career
society	121 IF Solleftea
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2003
Debut in the World Cup	1995
status	resigned
World Cup balance
last change: December 23, 2008

Eva Kristina Birgitta Brounéus (born November 25, 1974 in Ramsele ) is a former Swedish biathlete . It started in the 1990s and 2000s at seven biathlon world championships and once at the Olympic Games .

Kristina Brounéus, tourism manager and at times also a sports soldier from Ramsele, has been running biathlon since 1990 and competes for the 121 IF Solleftea association. The hobby hunter, who lives in Östersund, made her debut in 1995 in her home country Östersund in the biathlon world cup . In her first race, an individual, she finished 58th. Only a little later Brounéus was able to compete in the 1995 biathlon world championships in Ruhpolding . There the Swede was 46th in the individual, 55th in the sprint and alongside Susanne Hjert , Magdalena Forsberg and Maria Schylander tenth in the relay. At the start of the 1996/97 season , she won her first World Cup points as 24th in the pursuit in Lillehammer . In Osrblie she achieved some of her best international results at the 1996 Biathlon World Championships . She was 26th in the sprint, 28th in the pursuit and eleventh in the individual. The eleventh place was also Brounéu's second best World Cup result in her career. At the World Cup station after the World Cup in Nozawa Onsen , Japan , the track on which the Olympic biathlon competitions of the Nagano Games were held a year later , she achieved her only top ten result in eighth place.

The Olympic Games of Nagano should the sporting highlight in the career Brounéus' will, even if the results were mediocre. In the individual she came in 64th place, in the sprint on rank 50 and in the relay she was tenth with Forsberg, Schylander and Eva-Karin Westin . Apart from the Olympic Games of Salt Lake City 2002, the Swedish woman between 1999 and 2004 participated in all subsequent annual major events in biathlon. However, she was never able to place in the top 40 again, better than in the top 50 even at the individual at Holmenkollen in Oslo 2000. In the World Cup, she continued to make points again and again, but most recently in the 2000/2001 season . Brounéus ran her last World Cup race in 2004 in Östersund. Between 2001 and 2004 she ran several races in Sweden as part of the FIC Cup for cross-country skiers .

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10	1				1	4th	6th
Scoring	4th	4th	2	1	2	9	22nd
Starts	25th	49	18th	1	2	11	106

Web links

• Kristina Brounéus in the IBU database (English)
• Kristina Brounéus in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Kristina Brounéus in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )