Liv Grete Skjelbreid (born 7 July 1974) from Hålandsdal, Fusa, near the city of Bergen in western Norway, is a former professional biathlete.

He also built a small shooting range on the family’s farm so his young daughters could practice.

It turned out that Skjelbreid did enjoy the school, and was in the same year as Ole Einar Bjørndalen, and was taught by Odd Lirhus, who would become her coach between 2003 and 2006.

She won the overall title by 95 points over Olga Pyleva, and took three of the four individual disciplines, the sprint, pursuit and mass start.

Although, 2004/05 was a poor year, Skjelbreid had to retire from the season due to illness, missing the World Championships in the process.

The virus took away about 15–20 percent of her energy according to Lars Kolsrud, doctor for Norway's biathlon squads.

Skjelbreid won the Holmenkollen ski festival biathlon competition four times with two wins each in sprint (2000, 2001) and in mass start (2000, 2004).

- Sprint (1): 2003/04 - Pursuit (): 2003/04 - Mass start (1): 2003/04 22 victories (10 Sp, 8 Pu, 1 In, 3 MS) Skjelbreid competed in three Olympic games, the first in 1998 in Nagano.

She finished 9th in the individual, 12th in the sprint, 6th in the pursuit, 18th in the mass start, and 5th in the relay (although Skjelbreid did run a solid anchor leg).

In 2001 in Pokljuka, she won a gold in the pursuit, a silver in the individual, and a bronze in both the sprint and mass start.

During the 2003–04 season, Skjelbreid was handed the wrong gold medal after she won Sunday's 7.5 km race.

12 medals (8 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze) Skjelbreid suffered a spate of injuries throughout her career.

The family have spent most of their time in Norway and have a house in Eikelandsosen, near Skjelbreid's childhood home.

[1] The oldest daughter Emma traveled with the Poirées to all of their biathlon events, with a full-time nanny (older sister Ann Elen) for the first two years.

But Emma was sick several times over those two seasons, and the family decided she should remain at home during the buildup to the Olympic games in Torino, and only travel with them every third race weekend.