Marlene Schmotz
Marlene Schmotz 
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 Germany
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| birthday | 6th March 1994 (age 26) | ||||||||||||
| place of birth | Fischbachau , Germany | ||||||||||||
| size | 163 cm | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg | ||||||||||||
| job | Police chief | ||||||||||||
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Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , super combination |
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| society | SC Leitzachtal | ||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||
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| last change: March 130, 2020 | |||||||||||||
Marlene "Leni" Schmotz (born March 6, 1994 in Fischbachau ) is a German ski racer . She drives in all disciplines, but her particular strength lies in slalom .
biography
Career start
Marlene Schmotz grew up in Fischbachau in Bavaria and lives there to this day. In 2011 she took part in an FIS race for the first time at the age of 17 . In the giant slalom in St. Anton , however, she was eliminated in the first round. In the following season 2011/12 she was able to celebrate her first podium at the slalom in Sölden . Due to the good performances this season she qualified for the Junior Ski World Championships 2012 in Roccaraso . There, however, she was eliminated in the slalom and the downhill and finished the Super-G and the giant slalom with places in the middle of the starting field. In the 2012/13 season it was used in FIS races as well as in the European Cup . At the City Event in San Candido , she promptly reached her first top 10 position with 9th place. On January 15, 2013, she also made her World Cup debut in the Flachau slalom , although she was eliminated in the first run. At the end of the season, she took part in the Junior World Championships in Québec for the second time .
First World Cup appearances
At the beginning of the 2013/14 season she took part in a World Cup race for the second time. She finished 23rd in this slalom in Levi, Finland . After she was eliminated in five races in a row in the European Cup, she made it onto the podium for the first time at the end of February 2014 when she crossed the finish line in third in a slalom in Bad Wiessee . She also took part in the Junior World Championships this year and placed 9th in the super combination for the first time among the top ten in this competition. At the German championships she won the giant slalom and thus became German champion for the first time .
Schmotz's performances stabilized in the 2014/15 season and it was her most successful season to date. At the beginning of the season she was able to register once among the top ten and once among the top fifteen in the giant slalom of the European Cup . In the slalom she was first second in Hemsedal and shortly after her second World Cup points (23rd in the slalom in Are ), she won her first European Cup race in Zinal .
At the beginning of 2015 she had to fight again with several failures in the World Cup and the European Cup . At the end of February, like a year ago, she came third in the European Cup slalom in Bad Wiessee . Then she took part in a junior world championship for the fourth and last time . These competitions, held in Hafjell, were to be the most successful of their young careers. She won the silver medal in the slalom and won bronze in the team competition. At the European Cup final in Soldeu , she came on the podium for the first time in the super combined , in 3rd place. With the 2nd place in the slalom classification of the European Cup , she secured a permanent starting place for the 2015/16 World Cup season.
Injuries and comebacks
Schmotz was unable to benefit from the starting position she had worked out because she broke her ankle during training at the end of September 2015 and therefore had to take a whole season off. After she returned to the World Cup and was able to achieve a place in the points, she tore the cruciate ligament in her left knee before the start of the 2017/18 season and thus missed the entire season.
Schmotz started the 2018/19 season with a few podium places in FIS races. In January 2019 she won the slalom in Melchsee-Frutt in the European Cup . After further good placements and third place in the overall European Cup, she was allowed to start at the World Championships in Åre . She was nominated for the team competition and finished in 19th place in the giant slalom. At the World Cup race in Spindleruv Mlyn in March , she was able to confirm the good result with 18th place, her best place in a giant slalom world cup race to date. In the slalom that followed, she finished 20th in the second run with the third-best run time.
In the 2019/20 World Cup season , she achieved her best World Cup result with 9th place in the giant slalom in Courchevel . In the slaloms in Val-d'Isère and Lienz , she came in 14th and 11th. On January 4, 2020, she suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and the inner ligament in her right knee in the slalom in Zagreb , and fell again for a long time out.
successes
World championships
- Åre 2019 : 4th team competition, 19th giant slalom
World cup
- 6 placements among the top 15
World Cup ratings
| season | total | Giant slalom | slalom | combination | Parallel | |||||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2013/14 | 110. | 8th | - | - | 48. | 8th | - | - | - | - |
| 2014/15 | 117. | 8th | - | - | 47. | 8th | - | - | - | - |
| 2016/17 | 85. | 36 | - | - | 47. | 12 | 27. | 24 | - | - |
| 2018/19 | 86. | 38 | 38. | 21st | 49. | 17th | - | - | - | - |
| 2019/20 | 56. | 107 | 25th | 48 | 24. | 51 | - | - | 37. | 8th |
European Cup
- Season 2014/15 : 5th overall ranking, 2nd slalom ranking, 7th combined ranking
- Season 2018/19 : 3rd overall ranking, 3rd slalom ranking, 5th giant slalom ranking
- Season 2018/19 : 4th overall ranking, 3rd slalom ranking, 5th giant slalom ranking
- 9 podium places, including 2 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| December 16, 2014 | Zinal | Switzerland | slalom |
| January 25, 2019 | Melchsee-Frutt | Switzerland | slalom |
Junior World Championships
- Roccaraso 2012 : 27th Super-G, 37th giant slalom
- Québec 2013 : 16th giant slalom, 40th downhill
- Jasná 2014 : 9th super combination, 11th downhill, 14th super-G
- Hafjell 2015 : 2nd slalom, 3rd team, 8th giant slalom
More Achievements
- 9 podium places in FIS races
- German championships : 2 championship titles ( giant slalom 2014 , slalom 2015 )
- German Junior Championships: 2 championship titles (giant slalom 2014, slalom 2014)
Web links
- Marlene Schmotz in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Marlene Schmotz in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Merkur: Marlene Schmotz back in the World Cup, published on November 13, 2016 , accessed on February 7, 2018
- ^ Skiweltcup.tv: Cruciate ligament rupture: Season out for Marlene "Leni" Schmotz , accessed on February 7, 2018
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schmotz, Marlene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmotz, Leni (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fischbachau |