Martina Ertl-Renz

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Martina Ertl-Renz Alpine skiing
nation GermanyGermany Germany
birthday 12th September 1973 (age 46)
place of birth Bad Toelz , Germany
size 165 cm
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society SC Lenggries
status resigned
End of career March 18, 2006
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Lillehammer 1994 Giant slalom
silver Nagano 1998 combination
bronze Salt Lake City 2002 combination
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Morioka 1993 Giant slalom
bronze Sierra Nevada 1996 Giant slalom
gold St. Anton 2001 combination
gold Bormio 2005 team
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Geilo / Hemsedal 1991 Giant slalom
bronze Geilo / Hemsedal 1991 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1990/91
 Individual world cup victories 14th
 Overall World Cup 2. ( 1995/96 , 1997/98 )
 Downhill World Cup 8. ( 1999/00 )
 Super G World Cup 3. (1995/96, 1998/99 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (1995/96, 1997/98)
 Slalom World Cup 3. ( 1994/95 , 2000/01 )
 Combination World Cup 2. (1997/98, 2002/03 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 0 1
 Super G 2 8th 7th
 Giant slalom 10 8th 4th
 slalom 2 4th 5
 combination 0 3 2
 Parallel races 0 1 0
 

Martina Ertl-Renz (* 12. September 1973 in Bad Toelz as Martina Ertl ) is a former German alpine skier . At the turn of the millennium, she was one of the world's best athletes for more than ten years. She won three Olympic medals, was twice world champion and several times German champion . In 1996 and 1998 she won the giant slalom discipline of the Ski World Cup . In total, she won 14 World Cup races in three different disciplines and achieved at least one podium position in all five disciplines (57 in total). Her brother, Andreas Ertl , who was two years her junior, was also a ski racer.

biography

Until 1998

Ertl grew up in Lenggries , where his parents ran a farm. She skied for the first time when she was two and a half years old, and when she was 6 she joined the local ski club and took part in children's races. She graduated from the ski school of the Christophorus School in Berchtesgaden and then received police training from the Federal Border Police, which gave her enough time for training. At the age of 15 she was accepted into the DSV 's junior squad, and she made her first international appearance at the Junior World Championship.

Ertl celebrated her first successes at the Junior World Championships in 1991 in the Norwegian towns of Geilo and Hemsedal , where she was second in the giant slalom and third in the combined . In the same year she surprised as a German slalom champion. She contested her first World Cup races in the 1990/91 season. On December 8, 1991, she drove into the points for the first time when she finished the giant slalom in Santa Caterina in tenth place. At the 1992 Winter Olympics , she was used in slalom, which she finished in 15th place.

Ertl made her breakthrough in the 1992/93 season when she managed to score points in all five disciplines. At the 1993 World Championships , she won the bronze medal in the giant slalom. The following season there was a further increase in performance. On December 11, 1993 (giant slalom in Veysonnaz ) she also achieved her first podium in the World Cup. Successfully ran for them the 1994 Winter Olympics : You finished second in the giant slalom and missed the Fourth of departure another medal narrowly. Also in the giant slalom, she achieved her first World Cup victory on March 19, 1994 in Vail . In the 1994/95 season two more victories were added.

With three victories and two further podium places, Ertl proved to be the best giant slalom runner in the 1995/96 season and won the World Cup discipline ranking; in addition, there was the first victory in a Super-G . In the overall ranking she only had to admit defeat to her teammate Katja Seizinger . She couldn't quite live up to her favorite role at the 1996 World Championships in the Sierra Nevada , where she came third in the giant slalom (after the first run she was still in 14th place; she had triggered the timing too early).

Because of two tears in the inner ligament, Ertl had to take a break for several weeks in the 1996/97 season and could not achieve her usual level of performance. At the 1997 World Cup in Sestriere , she did not get past a 12th place. After four wins in January 1998, she was the favorite in several disciplines before the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano . With the silver medal in the combination and two fourth places, however, she remained below the high expectations. At the end of the season she won the giant slalom discipline for the second time and was second in the overall standings behind Seizinger.

From 1999

After Seizinger's resignation, Ertl took on the role of team leader, but she didn't feel up to it. There were no victories in world cup races in the 1998/99 season, the 1999 world championship ended rather disappointingly with two fifth places. Due to an injury, she had to cancel the season at the end of February. Renewed knee problems and the resulting lack of training had a negative impact on the course of the 1999/2000 season. In addition, Ertl struggled to switch to the carving technique , which was beginning to prevail in the Ski World Cup.

On October 28, 2000, Ertl won the first race of the 2000/01 season in Sölden - rather surprisingly in view of the problems of the last few years (this after rank 17 in the first run, which is the biggest improvement in the women's ranking in this discipline so far). More podium places followed, but at the end of December she had a hard crash in Semmering . She then had to take a break of several weeks, which seemed to jeopardize participation in the 2001 World Cup . In St. Anton she profited from the failure of several favorites in the combined competition and unexpectedly became world champion. The knee injury that was not completely healed required follow-up treatment in the summer of 2001, which was reflected in another training deficit and the worst World Cup season to date. The win of the combination bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics was all the more surprising .

For this she was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on May 6, 2002.

The 2002/03 season was again symptom-free for Ertl and she was able to achieve four podium places in the World Cup. At the 2003 World Cup in St. Moritz , however, she was without a medal. At the beginning of the 2003/04 season, Ertl won the giant slalom in Sölden; it was her last victory in a World Cup race. Ertl experienced the last highlight of her career at the 2005 World Championships in Santa Caterina: In fourth place in the giant slalom, she narrowly missed a medal, but on the last day of the event she won the gold medal in the team competition held for the first time (her brother Andreas was also part of the victorious German team on).

In July 2005, Ertl received the Bavarian Sports Prize in the "Ambassador of Bavarian Sports" category. In February 2006, when she last participated in the Olympic Games, she came in seventh place in the combination. The last World Cup race, the giant slalom on March 18, 2006 in Åre , she finished eighth. With a total of 430 World Cup races, Ertl holds the world record. In 188 of these races she was among the top ten.

Private

On June 18, 2005, Ertl married the sporting goods retailer and former Bundesliga triathlete Sven Renz in Lenggries , whom she had met two years earlier. Several DSV alpine athletes were among the wedding guests. She competed in her last World Cup season under the name Ertl-Renz. Since her resignation, she and her husband have run a specialty shop for ski and running shoes in Munich . In 2007 she became the mother of a daughter and in 2009 a son. The family lives in Lenggries.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

Martina Ertl won the discipline classification in giant slalom twice.

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1991/92 65. 96 - - - - 23. 96 - - - -
1992/93 7th 605 25th 100 15th 99 3. 278 38. 38 5. 90
1993/94 5. 943 20th 92 15th 129 5. 360 4th 312 7th 50
1994/95 4th 985 26th 77 5. 237 4th 333 3. 278 3. 60
1995/96 2. 1059 33. 45 3. 355 1. 485 12. 194 - -
1996/97 9. 620 31. 34 5. 248 7th 207 18th 131 - -
1997/98 2. 1508 21st 68 4th 259 1. 591 5. 320 2. 140
1998/99 4th 987 12. 181 3. 340 8th. 270 19th 116 6th 80
1999/00 9. 701 8th. 243 11. 174 14th 193 23. 91 - -
2000/01 7th 776 42. 14th 9. 156 6th 260 3. 346 - -
2001/02 31. 288 39. 17th 15th 97 45. 17th 14th 157 - -
2002/03 5. 922 23. 67 9. 267 8th. 280 9. 228 2. 80
2003/04 7th 770 26th 72 13. 169 9. 230 7th 299 - -
2004/05 11. 645 29 39 10. 224 7th 230 12. 152 - -
2004/05 11. 645 29 39 10. 224 7th 230 12. 152 - -
2005/06 16. 465 54. 5 14th 161 13. 171 23. 70 7th 58

World Cup victories

Ertl achieved a total of 57 podium places, including 14 victories:

date place country discipline
March 19, 1994 Vail United States Giant slalom
January 15, 1995 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany slalom
February 25, 1995 Maribor Slovenia Giant slalom
November 16, 1995 Vail United States Super G
December 8, 1995 Val d'Isère France Giant slalom
November 21, 1995 Veysonnaz Switzerland Giant slalom
5th January 1996 Maribor Slovenia Giant slalom
January 10, 1998 Bormio Italy Giant slalom
January 18, 1998 Altenmarkt Austria Super G
January 25, 1998 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Giant slalom
January 28, 1998 Are Sweden Giant slalom
March 1, 1998 Saalbach-Hinterglemm Austria slalom
October 28, 2000 Soelden Austria Giant slalom
October 25, 2003 Soelden Austria Giant slalom

Junior World Championships

  • Zinal 1990 : 6th downhill, 7th Super-G, 9th slalom
  • Geilo / Hemsedal 1991 : 2nd giant slalom, 3rd combination, 7th slalom, 8th Super-G, 34th descent
  • Maribor 1992 : 4th giant slalom, 4th combination, 7th slalom, 9th Super-G, 20th descent

German championship title

Martina Ertl became 13-time German champion :

source

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait - Martina Ertl-Renz , www.skiinfo.de, July 30, 2006
  2. ↑ Press release of the Federal President's Office of May 6, 2002 on the occasion of the awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2002 Winter Olympics ... www.bundespräsident, de: Der Bundespräsident / Speeches / Greetings
  3. ↑ Stoiber honors "Kaiser Franz" , Handelsblatt , July 4, 2005
  4. ↑ Martina Ertl got married ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Lenggries Ski Club, June 18, 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skiclub-lenggries.de
  5. ↑ Ertl / Renz Run & Ride
  6. ↑ Martina Ertl-Renz became a mother ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Lenggries Ski Club, August 3, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.skiclub-lenggries.de
personal data
SURNAME Ertl-Renz, Martina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ertl, Martina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Tölz