Margit Pörtner

Margit Pörtner
birthday	February 16, 1972
place of birth	Hørsholm, Denmark
date of death	April 26, 2017
Career
nation	Denmark
society	Hvidovre CC
Playing hand	right
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1998 Nagano  World Curling Championships bronze 1997 Bern silver 1998 Kamloops  European Curling Championships gold 1994 Sundsvall silver 1997 Füssen Junior World Curling Championship gold 1993 Grindelwald
last change: March 8, 2010

Margit Elisabeth Pörtner (born February 16, 1972 in Hørsholm ; † April 26, 2017 ) was a Danish curler .

Pörtner made her international debut at the Junior World Championship in Glasgow in 1991 , but she remained without a medal. In 1993 she won her first precious metal with the bronze medal at the JWM in Grindelwald .

Pörtner played as the third of the Danish team in the XVIII. Winter Olympics in Nagano in curling. The team won the Olympic silver medal after a 5-7 defeat in the final against Canada by Skip Sandra Schmirler .

Margit Pörtner died in April 2017 at the age of 45 from complications from cancer.

successes

• European champion in 1994
• Junior world champion 1993
• 2nd place Olympic Winter Games 1998
• 2nd place World Championship 1998
• 2nd place European Championship 1997
• 3rd place World Championship 1997

Web links

• Margit Pörtner on Worldcurling.org (English)
• Margit Pörtner in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http: //dødsannoncer.afdoede.dk/dodsfald/margit-elisabeth-portner/50098691
2. ^ Margit Pörtner er død: Var med til at vinde OL-sølv. In: kendte.dk. May 3, 2018, accessed July 29, 2018 (Danish).