Anna-Lena Portmann

Anna-Lena Portmann
Anna-Lena Portmann in June 2010
nation	Germany
birthday	December 10, 1985
size	163 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom , super-G , combination
society	SC Oberes Johannland Grasskiclub Escholzmatt Marbach
status	active
Medal table
World championships 1 × 3 × 4 ×
Grass ski world championships bronze Forni di Sopra 2001 slalom bronze Forni di Sopra 2001 combination bronze Presolana 2003 combination silver Dizin 2005 slalom silver Dizin 2005 combination bronze Olešnice 2007 Giant slalom gold Rettenbach 2009 Giant slalom silver Rettenbach 2009 Super combo
Placements in the World Cup
World Cup victories 13  Overall World Cup 1. ( 2010 )
last change: October 21, 2012

Anna-Lena Portmann , b. Büdenbender (born December 10, 1985 ) is a German grass skier . She became world champion in giant slalom in 2009 and won the overall world cup in the 2010 season . In addition, she won a further seven medals at world championships, numerous medals at junior world championships and the overall ranking of the German Cup several times . She has lived in Escholzmatt in Switzerland since 2008 , trains with the Swiss team and has been married to the Swiss grass skier Stefan Portmann since autumn 2011 . Her sister Katharina Büdenbender was also a grass skier.

Career

Büdenbender started grass skiing as a child and finally decided to do this sport at the age of 14. She won her first world championship medals at the age of 15. At the 2001 World Cup in Forni di Sopra , she won bronze in both slalom and combination. With fourth place in the slalom and seventh place in the Super-G, she also came third in the combination at the 2003 World Cup . Büdenbender won two silver medals in slalom and in combination at the 2005 World Championships in Dizin . She was also fourth in the giant slalom and fifth in the Super-G. Also at the 2007 World Championships in Olešnice v Orlických horách , with third place in the giant slalom, another medal was added. In the Super-G, she finished fifth and in the Super Combined, at the same time as the Italian Antonella Manzoni, eighth. Only in the slalom did she not finish. She also won numerous medals at the Junior World Championships. For example, she won the giant slalom and the super-G in 2004 and the slalom and the combination in 2005 . In 2006 she won the overall ranking of the German Cup for the last time.

Büdenbender achieved first top place in the overall World Cup in the 2006 season . In World Cup races, she achieved two third places in the giant slalom of České Petrovice and in the slalom of Sattel, as well as another four placements among the best six. In addition, she won four FIS races , which brought her to second place in the overall World Cup behind the clearly superior Austrian Ingrid Hirschhofer . After a fourth place in the 2007 season and third place in 2008 , she again achieved second place overall behind Ingrid Hirschhofer in the 2009 season . At the 2009 World Championships in Rettenbach , Büdenbender was on the podium for the first time in international championships. She won the gold medal in the giant slalom with just under half a second ahead of the Czech Zuzana Gardavská and was second behind Gardavská in the super combined. In addition, there was fourth place in the Super-G and fifth in the slalom.

The World Cup 2010 season began Büdenbender with four wins in the giant slalom and slalom of Čenkovice and in the giant slalom and in the super combination of Goldingen . After she had decided not to take part in the races in Dizin and only finished sixth in the Faistenau slalom , she won the Super-G and the giant slalom at the World Cup finals in Italy. In the two final slaloms she finished seventh and dropped out after a serious fall, but she won the overall World Cup for the first time with her six World Cup victories and another eight victories in FIS races. This ended Ingrid Hirschhofer's successful streak, who had previously won the overall standings eight times in a row. The native Hainchenerin climbed from second to first place in the world rankings.

In the first seven races of the 2011 World Cup season , Büdenbender achieved two wins and four second places, which put them in the lead in the overall standings before the season finale. At the 2011 World Championship in Goldingen , however, she had a hard fall in the first race shortly before the finish. She was classified sixth in this Super-G by falling through the finish line, but could not take part in the World Cup final two weeks later, which is why she dropped to third place in the overall World Cup. In October 2011 Büdenbender married the Swiss grass skier Stefan Portmann . Since then she has started under her new surname Portmann. In the 2012 season , Portmann took part in six of the twelve World Cup races. She achieved a victory in the Super-G of San Sicario as well as three second and two fourth places, which she was sixth in the overall World Cup.

successes

World championships

(until 2001 only podium positions)

• Forni di Sopra 2001 : 3rd slalom, 3rd combination
• Castione della Presolana 2003 : 3rd combination, 4th slalom, 7th super-G
• Dizin 2005 : 2nd slalom, 2nd combination, 4th giant slalom, 5th super-G
• Olešnice v Orlických horách 2007 : 3rd giant slalom, 5th super-G, 8th super combination
• Rettenbach 2009 : 1st giant slalom, 2nd super combination, 4th super G, 5th slalom
• Goldingen 2011 : 6th Super-G

Junior World Championships

(Results only known from 2002)

• Nové Město na Moravě 2002 : 3rd slalom, 4th combination, 10th Super-G
• Goldingen 2003 : 3rd giant slalom, 3rd combination, 4th slalom, 4th super-G
• Rettenbach 2004 : 1st giant slalom, 1st Super-G, 2nd combination, 3rd slalom
• Nové Město na Moravě 2005 : 1st slalom, 1st combination, 2nd super-G, 4th giant slalom

World cup

• 1st overall place: 2010
• 2nd overall: 2006 and 2009
• 3rd overall: 2008 and 2011

• 13 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
August 12, 2007	Čenkovice	Czech Republic	slalom
July 5, 2009	Čenkovice	Czech Republic	slalom
August 6, 2009	Dizin	Iran	Super G
August 7, 2009	Dizin	Iran	Giant slalom *
July 3, 2010	Čenkovice	Czech Republic	Giant slalom
4th July 2010	Čenkovice	Czech Republic	slalom
July 10, 2010	Goldingen / Atzmännig	Switzerland	Giant slalom
July 11, 2010	Goldingen / Atzmännig	Switzerland	Super combination
September 16, 2010	San Sicario	Italy	Super G
17th September 2010	San Sicario	Italy	Giant slalom
July 2, 2011	Olešnice v Orlických horách	Czech Republic	Super combination
August 7, 2011	Předklášteří	Czech Republic	slalom
August 12, 2012	San Sicario	Italy	Super G

* at the same time as Ingrid Hirschhofer

Germany Cup

Top 3 results in the overall classification from 2002:

• 2002: 1st overall ranking
• 2003: 2nd overall ranking
• 2005: 3rd overall ranking
• 2006: 1st overall ranking

Web links

Commons : Anna-Lena Portmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Anna-Lena Portmann in the database of the International Ski Federation (English) - results only registered since 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report Overall World Cup 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Grasskiclub Escholzmatt Marbach, accessed on October 29, 2011 (PDF, 89 kB).  
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Mission title defense. Siegener Zeitung online, accessed October 29, 2011.
3. ↑ ^{a b} wedding Stefan u. Anna Lena. SwissGrasski, October 1, 2011, accessed October 29, 2011.
4. ↑ Ranking list of the Siegerland sport . Siegener Zeitung of December 28, 2010, p. 21.
5. ^ Franz Seiz: Report on the FIS Grasski World Championships 2011. Website of the TV Floss, ski department, accessed on October 29, 2011.