Martina Ertl-Renz

Martina Ertl - Renz ( born September 12, 1973 in Bad Tölz as Martina Ertl ) is a former German ski racer. Around the turn of the millennium it was more than ten years the world's best athletes. She won three Olympic medals, was twice World Champion and four times German champion. In 1996 and 1998 she won the giant slalom discipline rating of the world cup for each. In total, she won 14 World Cup races in three different disciplines. In all five disciplines, it achieved at least a podium finish (totally 57). You two younger brother Andreas Ertl was also skier.

  • 3.1 The Olympic Games
  • 3.2 World Championships
  • 3.3 Junior World Championships
  • 3.4 World Cup
  • 3.5 German championship

Career

Until 1998

Ertl grew up in Lenggries, where his parents operated a farm. As a two and a half years old, she stood for the first time on skis, was six years old, she joined the local ski club and participated in children's race. She graduated from the Skigymnasium Christophorusschule in Berchtesgaden and then received at the Federal police training, what do you left enough time for training. At the age of 15 she was accepted into the junior squad of the DSV, at the Junior World Championships she had her first international appearance.

Initial successes celebrated Ertl at the Junior World Championship in 1991 in the Norwegian places Geilo and Hemsedal, where she finished second in the giant slalom and third in the combination. In the same year she surprised as German slalom champion. Her first World Cup races she contested in the 1990/91 season. On December 8, 1991, she went for the first time in the points, as she finished the giant slalom in Santa Caterina in tenth place. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1992 she came in slalom used, they finished in 15th place.

The breakthrough Ertl in the 1992/93 season, as it managed to score in all five disciplines. At the 1993 World Championships she won the bronze medal in the giant slalom. In the following season, there was a further increase in performance. On December 11, 1993 ( giant slalom in Veysonnaz ) they scored the first podium finish in the World Cup. Successful were they for the 1994 Winter Olympics: It was second in the giant slalom and missed the Fourth of departure for another medal just barely. Also in the giant slalom she succeeded on March 19, 1994 in Vail, the first World Cup victory. In the season 1994/95, two more wins were added.

With three wins and two additional podium finishes Ertl proved in the 1995/96 season as the best giant slalom skier and decided the World Cup discipline rating for themselves; added was the first victory in a Super -G. In the overall standings, she had to admit defeat to her teammate Katja Seizinger. Are not entirely their role as favorite she could at the World Championships in 1996 in the Sierra Nevada, where she was third in the giant slalom ( after the first run had they still in 14th place located ).

Because two inner band cracks had Ertl in the 1996/97 season sidelined for several weeks and could not reach their usual level of performance. At the World Cup 1997 in Sestriere it was no more than 12 square. After four victories in January 1998 she was before the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in several disciplines as a favorite. With the silver medal in the combination and two fourth places, however, they remained below the high expectations. End of the season they secured for the second time winning the giant slalom discipline standings and was behind Seizinger again second in the overall standings.

From 1999

After Seizinger resignation Ertl fell to the role of the team leader, who, however, did not feel grown. Victories in World Cup races were made ​​in the 1998/99 season, the 1999 World Cup ended with two fifth places rather disappointing. Due to injury, she had to cancel the season in late February. Re knee problems and the resulting training deficit had a negative impact on the course of the season 1999/2000. In addition, Ertl had trouble in the transition to the carving technique, which began at that time to enforce the Ski World Cup.

On 28 October 2000 Ertl won - given the problems of recent years rather surprisingly - in Soelden the first race of the season 2000/ 01. There were other podiums, but the end of December they fell heavily in Semmering. They then had to take a longer -week break, thereby participating in the World Cup in 2001 seemed at risk. In St. Anton, they benefited from the failure of several favorites for the combination of competition and was unexpectedly World Champion. The not quite healed knee injury required in the summer of 2001, a post-treatment, which was reflected in a re- training deficit and the worst World Cup season so far. All the more surprising, therefore, came to the profit of the combination bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games 2002.

The season 2002/ 03 was for Ertl again symptom-free and was able to pull four podiums again in the World Cup. In the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz but she remained without a medal. At the beginning of the 2003/ 04 Ertl won the giant slalom in Soelden; while it was their last victory in a World Cup race. The last peak of her career experienced Ertl at the 2005 World Championships in Santa Caterina: The Fourth of the giant slalom she missed while just a medal, but she won the gold medal on the last day of the event at the inaugural team event (also her brother Andreas was one of the victorious German team to ).

In July 2005, Ertl was awarded the Bavarian sports award in the category "Ambassadors of the Bavarian Sports." In February 2006, their past participation in the Olympic Games, she came into the combination to seventh place. The last World Cup race, the Giant Slalom on March 18, 2006 in Åre, she finished in eighth. With a total of 430 World Cup races driven Ertl holds the world record. In 188 of these races they classified among the top ten.

Private

On June 18, 2005 Ertl married in Lenggries sporting goods dealer and former Bundesliga triathletes Sven Renz, whom she had met two years earlier. Among the wedding guests were several Alpine athletes of the DSV. Your last World Cup season she performed under the name Ertl - Renz. Since the resignation she performs with her husband, a specialty shop for skiing and running shoes in Munich. In 2007, she became the mother of a daughter and a son in 2009. The family lives in Lenggries.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • 1992 Albertville: 15 Slalom
  • Lillehammer 1994: 2 Giant Slalom, 4th exit, 5 combination, 14th slalom
  • Nagano 1998: 2 combination, 4 Giant Slalom, Slalom 4th, 7th Super -G
  • Salt Lake City 2002: 3 combination, 5 Slalom, Super -G 11
  • Turin 2006: 7 combination, 15 Giant Slalom, Super -G 16

World Championships

  • Morioka 1993: 3 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 12, 17 Slalom
  • Sierra Nevada 1996: 3rd giant slalom, eighth combination, 8 Super -G
  • Sestriere 1997: 12 Giant Slalom, Super -G 16
  • Vail / Beaver Creek 1999: 5 Giant Slalom, Super-G, 5, 10 departure
  • St. Anton 2001: 1st combination
  • St. Moritz 2003: 6 combination, 10 Giant Slalom, Super -G 11
  • Bormio 2005: 1st team competition, 4 Giant Slalom, 7 combination

Junior World Championships

  • Zinal 1990: 6 downhill, Super-G, 7, 9 slalom
  • Geilo / Hemsedal 1991: 2 Giant Slalom, 3 combination, slalom 7, 8 Super -G, downhill 34
  • Maribor 1992: 4 Giant Slalom, 4 combination, 7 Slalom, Super-G, 9th, 20th departure

World Cup

World Cup ratings:

  • 1992/93 Season: 7 Overall World Cup Giant Slalom 3, 5 combination
  • Season 1993/94: 5 Overall World Cup, 4th Slalom, Giant Slalom 5, 7 combination
  • Season 1994/95: 4th overall World Cup, 3rd slalom, third combination, 4 Giant Slalom, Super -G 5
  • 1995/96 season: 2nd Overall World Cup, 1st Giant Slalom, Super-G 3
  • Season 1996/ 97: 9 Overall World Cup, 5 Super G, Giant Slalom 7
  • 1997/98 season: 2nd Overall World Cup Giant Slalom 1st, 2nd combination, 4 Super -G, Slalom 5
  • Season 1998/99: 4th overall World Cup Super-G 3, 6 combination, 8 Giant Slalom
  • Season 1999/ 00: 9 Overall World Cup exit 8
  • Season 2000/ 01: 7 Overall World Cup, 3rd Slalom, 6 Giant Slalom, Super-G 9
  • Season 2002/ 03: 5 Overall World Cup, second combination, 8 Giant Slalom, Super -G 9, 9 slalom
  • Season 2003/ 04: 7 Overall World Cup Slalom 7, 9 Giant Slalom

World Cup victories:

German championship

Martina Ertl was 13 - times German Champion:

  • 5x Slalom: 1991, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2002
  • 7x Giant Slalom: 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005
  • 1x Super -G: 2003

Source

  • World Sports Archives, Issue 49 /2005 ( Munzinger archive)
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