Corinna Martini

Corinna Martini ( born June 19, 1985 in Winterberg) is a German luger.

Career

The starting for the BSC from Winterberg Winterberg operates the sport of luge since 1991. The police chief aspirant learns at the Federal Police Sports Sciences Bad Endorf and belongs to the German national team since 2005. 2003 in Koenigssee and 2004 in Calgary, she won bronze medals at Junior World Championships. The overall ranking of the Junior World Cup they won in the 2001 season. 2003-2005 she was each second. In their first German championship in 2005, she was sixth. 2002, 2003 and 2005 Martini was German junior champion. 2002, 2003 and 2005, she was German junior champion.

At her debut in Luge World Cup on January 14, 2007 in Oberhof, where it was nominated for just days before resigning Luge legend Sylke Otto, she took immediately a third place. Your next assignments at the highest level had Martini in the 2008/09 season, in which they alternated with Stefanie winner on the fourth German grid position behind the set Huefner, Geisenberger and Anke Vishnevsky, she came in four of the nine races used. Twice she was doing Fourth, Fifth once. In the FIL World Luge Championships 2009 in Lake Placid she got the fourth place, but a disappointing 17th place. In the 2009/10 season was the Martini solid fourth starter German World Cup and finished five times in the top five places. She celebrated her biggest success by winning the silver medal, in the absence of the German Olympic runners in the European Luge Championships 2010 in Sigulda, Latvia behind the Russian Tatjana Ivanova. On January 22, 2012, she won on her home track in Winterberg 's first World Cup in their careers. At the European Championships 2012 in Paramonovo she won the bronze medal.

Corinna Martini was in November 2013 announced that it will terminate at the end of her career as a luger. Previously, from Winterberg had missed the jump in the German World Cup team for the 2013/14 season in an internal secretion.