Martina Ellmer

Martina Ellmer
nation	Austria
birthday	11th March 1958 (age 62)
place of birth	Wagrain , Austria
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom
society	SC Wagrain
status	resigned
End of career	1980
Medal table
Junior European Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Alpine Junior European Ski Championships gold Mayrhofen 1975 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut December 1975  Overall World Cup 30. ( 1976/77 )  Downhill World Cup 14. (1976/1977, 1977/78 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 24. ( 1975/76 )

Martina Ellmer (born March 11, 1958 in Wagrain ) is a former Austrian ski racer whose strongest discipline was downhill . She achieved eleven top 10 placements in the World Cup , eighth downhill rank at the 1978 World Cup and first place in the giant slalom at the 1975 European Junior Championships .

biography

Ellmer celebrated her first major success in 1975 when she became Junior European Champion in giant slalom in Mayrhofen . In the same winter ( 1974/75 ) she reached second place in the European Cup overall and giant slalom rating. She was accepted into the Austrian national team the next season and won her first World Cup points with seventh place in the downhill run from Cortina d'Ampezzo on December 16, 1975. Three weeks later she was able to score eighth for the only time in a giant slalom, but in her further career she concentrated more and more on the descent.

After further top 10 placements, Ellmer achieved the best World Cup result of her career at the end of the 1976/77 season with sixth place in the downhill from Heavenly Valley . In addition, she won the downhill classification in the European Cup that same winter , tied with Swiss Evelyne Dirren . After minor injuries at the beginning of the 1977/78 season, Ellmer was able to qualify for the 1978 World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with two top 10 results in Pfronten and Bad Gastein within the ÖSV team , where she finished eighth in the downhill . She finished the Downhill World Cup in 1976/77 and 1977/78 in 14th position. After she had again achieved two top 10 placements in the winter of 1978/79 (seventh in Val-d'Isère and eighth in Meiringen ), Ellmer was again affected by injuries at the beginning of the 1979/80 season , which is why she was not a top 10 - Reached 2nd place and did not qualify for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid . She was dismissed from the squad of the Austrian Ski Association and ended her career.

Ellmer married Peter Mennel from Vorarlberg, who, among other functions, has been Secretary General of the Austrian Olympic Committee since 2010 . The couple has two children. Martina Mennel returned to ski racing in the 1990s and won seven gold medals at Masters World Championships. At the turn of the millennium, she and her husband also achieved numerous successes in helicopter flying , including the 2002 world championship in navigation and precision flight .

successes

World championships

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 8th descent

Junior European Championships

• Mayrhofen 1975 : 1st giant slalom

World cup

• 11 placements among the top ten

European Cup

• 1974/75 season : 2nd overall ranking, 2nd giant slalom ranking
• 1976/77 season : 1st downhill classification

literature

• Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austrian Ski Stars from A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , pp. 64-65.
• Joachim Glaser: Goldsmiths in the Snow. 100 years of the Salzburg State Ski Association. Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78560-6 , p. 125.

Web links

• Martina Ellmer in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Martina Ellmer in the database of Ski-DB (English)