Martina Ertl

Martina Maria Ertl-Renz (born 12 September 1973) is a German former alpine skier. She was two times world champion and also won several medals at Olympic Winter Games and World Championships.^[1]

Martina Ertl

Personal information
Born	(1973-09-12) 12 September 1973 (age 51) Bad Tölz, Upper Bavaria, West Germany
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Technical and speed events
Club	SC Lenggries
World Cup debut	1992
Retired	2006
Olympics
Teams	5
Medals	3 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams	7
Medals	4 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	15
Wins	14
Podiums	57
Overall titles	2
Discipline titles	17
Medal record Olympic Games 1994 Lillehammer Giant slalom 1998 Nagano Combined 2002 Salt Lake City Combined World Championships 2001 St. Anton Combined 2005 Bormio Team event 1993 Morioka Giant slalom 1996 Sierra Nevada Giant slalom World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Slalom 2 4 5 Giant slalom 10 8 4 Super-G 2 8 7 Downhill 0 0 1 Combined 0 3 2 Parallel 0 1 0 Total 14 24 19

Biography

Martina Ertl is the sister of the German alpine ski Andreas Ertl.^[2]

Skiing career

Ertl started skiing at the age of two and a half. At the age of 18 she participated in the Junior World Championship in Hemsedal (Norway) winning a silver medal in Giant slalom and a bronze medal in Combined.

This was the starting point of a long career. Until 2006 she took part in 430 World Cup races winning 14 of them. Ertl won the giant slalom World Cup in 1996 and 1998. She won three Olympic medals and four medals at World Championships (Bronze in giant slalom at Morioka 1993, Bronze medalist in giant slalom at Sierra Nevada 1996, Gold in Combined at St. Anton 2001, Gold in Nation Team Event at Bormio 2005).

She represented Germany at five Winter Olympics between 1992 and 2006, winning silver medals in the giant slalom in 1994 and the combined event in 1998, as well as a bronze medal in the combined event in 2002.^[3]

World Cup victories

Overall

1996	Giant slalom
1998	Giant slalom

Individual races

Date	Location	Race
19 March 1994	Vail	Giant slalom
15 January 1995	Garmisch	Slalom
18 March 1995	Maribor	Giant slalom
25 November 1995	Vail	Super-G
11 December 1995	Val-d'Isère	Giant slalom
21 December 1995	Veysonnaz	Giant slalom
5 January 1996	Maribor	Giant slalom
10 January 1998	Bormio	Giant slalom
15 January 1998	Altenmarkt	Super-G
25 January 1998	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Giant slalom
28 January 1998	Åre	Giant slalom
1 March 1998	Saalbach	Slalom
28 October 2000	Sölden	Giant slalom
25 October 2003	Sölden	Giant slalom

References

1. "Martina Ertl Biography". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
2. "Fratelli e Sorelle di Coppa" (in Italian). fantaski.it. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
3. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Martina Ertl". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.

External links

• Martina Ertl at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database