Liv Grete Skjelbreid

Liv Grete Skjelbreid
Full name	Liv Grete Skjelbreid
Association	Norway
birthday	7th July 1974 (age 46)
place of birth	Bergen , Norway
Career
Debut in the World Cup	1995
World Cup victories	22nd
status	resigned
End of career	2006
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 8 × 3 × 2 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1998 Nagano Season silver 2002 Salt Lake City singles silver 2002 Salt Lake City Season  Biathlon world championships gold 1997 Osrblie team silver 1997 Osrblie Season silver 1998 Pokljuka team gold 2000 Oslo sprint gold 2000 Oslo Mass start gold 2001 Pokljuka persecution silver 2001 Pokljuka singles bronze 2001 Pokljuka Mass start bronze 2001 Pokljuka sprint gold 2004 Oberhof sprint gold 2004 Oberhof persecution gold 2004 Oberhof Season gold 2004 Oberhof Mass start  Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 1994 Osrblie Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1.  ( 2003/04 ) 2.  ( 2000/01 , 2001/02 )
Individual World Cup	2.  ( 2001/02 ) 3.  ( 2000/01 )
Sprint World Cup	1.  ( 2003/04 ) 2.  ( 2000/01 , 2001/02 ) 3.  ( 1998/99 )
Pursuit World Cup	1.  ( 2003/04 ) 2.  ( 2000/01 , 2001/02 )
Mass start world cup	1.  ( 2003/04 ) 2.  ( 2000/01 )

Liv Grete Skjelbreid (born July 7, 1974 in Bergen ) is a former Norwegian biathlete .

Career

Skjelbreid at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin

Liv Grete Skjelbreid, still starting under her birth name, celebrated her first major successes with Norwegian relays and teams at the end of the 1990s: at the 1997 and 1998 World Championships , she won one gold and two silver medals. In 2000 and 2001 , Liv Grete Skjelbreid also had her first individual successes. In Oslo she became two-time world champion in sprint and mass start. A year later she won a medal in each individual discipline in Pokljuka, including the gold medal in the pursuit. In the 2000/01 and 2001/02 seasons she also took second place twice in the overall World Cup.

At the 2004 World Championships in Oberhof , Liv Grete Skjelbreid became the first female athlete to win four gold medals at a World Cup. Only in the individual race, in which she finished 8th, was there another winner with the Russian Olga Pyljowa . Together with her then husband Raphaël , the Norwegian also set a record: the couple won seven out of ten possible world titles, and both became world champions in the mass start on the same day. With these four world championship titles, Liv Grete Skjelbreid is a total of eight times world champion. In the 2003/04 season she also won the overall biathlon world cup and three of four discipline world cups.

Like her then husband Raphaël Poirée, however, the Norwegian was denied the chance to win Olympic gold. With two silver medals in Salt Lake City in 2002 and a bronze medal in Nagano in 1998 , she achieved a total of three Olympic medals.

After an unsatisfactory season, Liv Grete Skjelbreid announced on March 20, 2006 that she would retire from active biathlon in order to have more time for her daughter. With the World Cup conclusion of the 2005/2006 season at Holmenkollen in Oslo, she played her last competitions.

Skjelbreid works as a sports commentator for biathlon for Norwegian television NRK . and is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .

Liv Grete Skjelbreid was married to the former French biathlete Raphaël Poirée from 2000 to 2013 and also bore his name. Both continue to live together in Fusa (Norway). The couple has three daughters. Her sister Ann-Elen Skjelbreid and her cousin Liv-Kjersti Eikeland were also biathletes. Egil Gjelland is her brother-in-law.

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place	1	10	8th	3	1	8th	31
2nd place	4th	5	4th	2		5	20th
3rd place		4th	2	3		5	14th
Top 10	13	42	37	12	1	35	140
Scoring	23	64	48	18th	1	35	189
Starts	36	79	53	18th	1	35	222
Status : end of season 2005/2006, career completion

Web links

Commons : Liv Grete Poirée  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Liv Grete Skjelbreid in the IBU database (English)
• Liv Grete Skjelbreid in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liv Grete Poiree will be able to travel to Vancouver after all. biathlon-online.de, February 8, 2010, accessed on March 25, 2014 . 
2. ^ Right To Play Athlete Ambassadors ( Memento from September 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Liv Grete og Raphael Poiree separeres. dagbladet.no, July 5, 2013, accessed January 31, 2014 . 
4. ^ Offspring for biathlon families Robert and Poirée. biathlon-online.de, October 13, 2008, accessed on September 11, 2012 .