Martin celebrated his first major success by winning the European Junior Championship in 1995 in Saint-Marcel / Fénis . The year before , she had finished fifth in her first participation in a Junior European Championship. In 1995 Martin also took part in an international title fight in the general class for the first time and finished fifth at the 1995 European Championships in Kandalakscha . She achieved similar results in her other two European Championship participations: in 1997 she was fourth in Moos in Passeier and in 1999 in Szczyrk fifth again. At world championships, in which she also participated three times from 1996 to 2000, her results were slightly worse: in 1996 in Oberperfuss and 2000 in Olang she was eighth, in 1998 in Rautavaara only twelfth.
In the World Cup , Martin was among the top six in the overall World Cup for the first time in the 1995/1996 season . In the winter of 1996/1997 she achieved her first podium places with three third places in Szczyrk, Toblach and Garmisch-Partenkirchen and thus made third place in the overall World Cup behind Sonja Steinacher and Ljubow Panjutina . The following season 1997/1998 Martin started with two second places in Sölden and at Kronplatz . In the rest of the season she achieved no more top placements, which is why she was only fifth in the final standings. Also in the next few years there were no further top results. Until the end of her career after the 2000/2001 season , she was no longer in the top five in any World Cup races.
Harald Steyrer, Herbert Wurzer, Egon Theiner: 50 years of FIL 1957–2007. The history of the International Luge Federation in three volumes. Volume II, Egoth Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902480-46-0 , pp. 285-407.
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