Thekla Brun-Lie

Thekla Brun-Lie
Association	Norway
birthday	2nd September 1992 (age 27)
place of birth	Oslo , Norway
Career
society	Oslo SSL
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2010
Debut in the World Cup	2015
World Cup victories	1 relay win
status	resigned
End of career	2020
Medal table
EM 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM 3 × 0 × 0 × JEM 1 × 0 × 0 × NM 3 × 2 × 2 ×
European biathlon championships gold 2018 Ridnaun Single mixed relay  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2010 Torsby Season gold 2011 Nové Město singles gold 2012 Kontiolahti Season  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2012 Osrblie Mixed relay  Norwegian championships silver 2012 Trondheim Season gold 2017 Mo i Rana Season bronze 2018 Lillehammer persecution bronze 2018 Lillehammer Mass start silver 2018 Lillehammer Season gold 2019 Ål persecution gold 2019 Ål Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	52nd ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	65th ( 2018/19 )
Sprint World Cup	55th (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	52nd (2019/20)
Mass start world cup	38th (2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. Season 1 0 0
last change: end of career

Thekla Charlotte Knudtzon Brun-Lie (born September 2, 1992 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian biathlete .

Life

Thekla Brun-Lie, sister of the cross-country skier Celine Brun-Lie and the canoeist Agnes Brun-Lie , first attended a French high school in Oslo and completed her school education in 2011 at the Oslo katedralskole . Since then she has been studying at the Technical and Natural Sciences University of Norway . She lives in Trondheim .

Career

Beginnings (2010 to 2014)

In 2010 she took part in her first Junior World Championships in Torsby and won the relay title with Marion Rønning Huber and Anne-Tine Markset ahead of Russia and Belarus. In the individual she just missed another medal in fourth place, in the sprint she finished in 56th place, in the pursuer on 43rd place. A year later it started in Nové Město na Moravě , where it was used in only two races. This time she missed a medal with the relay in fourth place, but won the title before Jelena Badanina in the individual. The 2012 Junior World Championships in Kontiolahti were also successful , with Brun-Lie again being used in all four races. With Hilde Fenne and Marion Rønning Huber she won the season title for the second time. In the sprint, she once again missed a medal when she was fourth, finished tenth in the pursuit race and eighth in the individual. The junior races of the Biathlon European Championships 2012 in Osrblie were similarly successful . In the mixed relay race, Brun-Lie won her fourth international junior title on the side of Marion Rønning Huber, Johannes Thingnes Bø and Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen . In the individual, she was eleventh and only missed by one place the top ten places, which she achieved as seventh in the sprint and fifth in the pursuit race.

At the start of the 2010/11 season , Brun-Lie started for the first time internationally in the women’s IBU Cup . In Beitostølen she immediately won points as 32nd in a sprint and just missed a first place in the top ten as eleventh in another sprint by just one place. It took until the beginning of the 2012/13 season for Brun-Lie to return to the IBU Cup in Idre . In the two successive sprints she achieved her first podium positions with third place. Before that she won the silver medal in the relay race in Trondheim at the Norwegian Championships 2012 with Tiril Eckhoff and Fanny Horn representing the Oslo og Akershus region .

First appearances in the World Cup (2014 to 2018)

After Thekla Brun-Lie celebrated her first victory and the first podium finish in the IBU Cup in the IBU Cup 2014/15 races in Obertilliach in the mixed relay with Hilde Fenne , Vegard Gjermundshaug and Lars Helge Birkeland , she was eligible for the World Cup races in the same year in Nové Město na Moravě and in Oslo . In two sprint races she clearly missed both the qualification for the pursuit race and the points with places 70 and 76. In the winter of 2015/16 followed by a second place in the single mixed relay in Martell , together with Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen , another podium place in the IBU Cup. In the winter of 2016/17 , two more podium placements followed in a single mixed relay. In Otepää , a victory with Martin Femsteinevik was followed by a second place with Kristoffer Skjelvik . She started the 2017/18 IBU Cup season very successfully with a second and a third place in the sprint races in Sjusjøen, Norway . After winning the single mixed relay in Lenzerheide with Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen, she was part of the Norwegian World Cup team in Annecy , France , with a 38th place in the sprint race, she won her first World Cup points. This winter she finished second in the individual race of the IBU Cup on the Arber and, together with Christiansen, European champion in the single mixed relay at the European Championships in Ridnaun . That winter, she also competed in a World Cup race, but in the sprint in Kontiolahti , Finland , she only achieved a 75th place.

World Cup victory and end of career (2018 to 2020)

Thekla Brun-Lie qualified for the first races of the 2018/19 World Cup in Pokljuka in Slovenia thanks to good preparation . Together with Lars Helge Birkeland , she won the opening race in the discipline in which she was most successful so far. As the final runner of the Norwegian team in the single mixed relay, Birkeland crossed the finish line with just four shooting errors 8.5 seconds ahead of Austria and 20.4 seconds ahead of the Ukraine team. In the individual races, however, she was no longer able to build on this result; after the World Cup in Oberhof in January 2019, she mainly took part in races of the second-class IBU Cup , in the World Cup races overseas and at the season finale in Oslo, she strengthened the Norwegian women's team. In the super sprint of the IBU Cup in Otepää , she won the qualifying race and came third in the final behind Anna Weidel and Dunja Zdouc . At the Norwegian Championships in Ål in March 2019 , she won the pursuit race and - with the first team from the Oslo- Akershus region together with Tiril Eckhoff and Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold - the relay race.

In the 2019/20 season , Brun-Lie only started in the World Cup and was able to win some World Cup points. In Annecy she was able to qualify for her only mass start, which she finished in 18th. Her last international race was the pursuit in Ruhpolding, which she finished in 53rd place. In August 2020, she finally announced the end of her career.

statistics

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
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place					1	1
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10					2	2
Scoring	1	5	3	1	2	12
Starts	3	11	7th	1	2	24
Status: end of career

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	0Dec 2, 2018	Pokljuka	Single mixed relay 1

¹with Lars Helge Birkeland

Junior World Championships

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2010	Torsby	4th	56.	43.	1.
2011	Nové Město	1.	-	-	4th
2012	Kontiolahti	8th.	4th	10.	1.
2013	Obertilliach	6th	12.	16.	4th

Web links

Commons : Thekla Brun-Lie  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Thekla Brun-Lie in the IBU database (English)
• Thekla Brun-Lie in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For en travel! TAKK, skiskyting! Retrieved August 25, 2020 .