Martina Ertl
- Actress
Martina Ertl was on skis for the first time when she was two and a half years old. She later joined the SC Lenggries club, where she learned the basics of skiing. In 1979 she started her first race for the club as a six-year-old. In the 1990/91 season she took part in the World Cup for the first time. In 1991 she became German champion for the first time. This national success was to be repeated seven more times. In 1991 she took part in the Junior World Championships in Hemsedal. There she was able to place second in the giant slalom. In the combination she took third place and won the bronze medal. In 1993 Martina Ertl celebrated her first major international success. She started at the World Championships in Morioka, Japan and won the bronze medal with third place. The following year she took part in the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. There she was able to improve and achieved the silver medal with second place. This season she finished fifth in the overall World Cup.
In 1995 there was a further increase in performance. She achieved fourth place in the overall World Cup rankings. The following year she started at the World Championships in the Spanish Sierra Nevada. The conditions for placing were not exactly the best, as Martina Ertl went into the competition with an injury. Nevertheless, she won the bronze medal in the giant slalom with third place. In the same year, the police chief at the Federal Border Police became the winner of the giant slalom World Cup. In the overall World Cup standings, she improved her position further, finishing second behind her teammate Katja Seitzinger. Injuries plagued her in the 1996/97 season and she was unable to match the performances of previous years. She finished many competitions with fifth place: 5th place Super-G World Cup/Overall, 5th place Park City Giant Slalom, 5th place Maribor Giant Slalom, 5th place Zwiesel Giant Slalom, 5th place Val d'Isère Super-G, 5th place Bad Kleinkirchheim Super-G or third place in the Vail Super-G.
Only when the Lenggries woman's health improved again in the following 1997/98 racing season did her successes return. In 1998 she took part in the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. There she came in second best in the combination - behind Katja Seitzinger. She took the ungrateful fourth place in the slalom and the giant slalom in this international competition. In the giant slalom World Cup she came second ahead of the Italian ski racer Deborah Compagnoni. She also achieved second place in the overall World Cup. Participation in the World Championships in Vail, USA in 1999 was not particularly successful for the German ski racer. She didn't achieve a medal place and was plagued by injuries, so she had to end the season early. She therefore slipped to fourth place in the overall World Cup.
It was only in 2001 that she was able to build on her performance potential. Martina Ertl took part in the 2001 World Championships in Sankt Anton. There she became world champion in the combination and thus reached a high point in her skiing career to date. The 2001/02 racing season did not deliver satisfactory results in the World Cup. Ertl started at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and won the bronze medal in the combination with third place. She ended up fifth in the slalom competition. Her other track record included, among others, in the 1997/1998 season: 1st place in the giant slalom - World Cup/overall ranking; 2000/2001: 1st place giant slalom Sölden, 2nd place Slalom Part City, 2nd place Slalom Aspen, 3rd place Super-G Lake Louise, 1st place combination St. Anton and 2nd place Slalom Åre. In 2005 she won gold in the Nations Team event at the 2005 Alpine World Ski Championships in Bormio. In the same year she married the ex-triathlete Sven Renz. Together with her husband she runs a specialty ski and running shoe shop in Munich.
On March 19, 2006, she ended her professional career in Åre. Their daughter Romy-Sophia was born in July 2007.
In 1995 there was a further increase in performance. She achieved fourth place in the overall World Cup rankings. The following year she started at the World Championships in the Spanish Sierra Nevada. The conditions for placing were not exactly the best, as Martina Ertl went into the competition with an injury. Nevertheless, she won the bronze medal in the giant slalom with third place. In the same year, the police chief at the Federal Border Police became the winner of the giant slalom World Cup. In the overall World Cup standings, she improved her position further, finishing second behind her teammate Katja Seitzinger. Injuries plagued her in the 1996/97 season and she was unable to match the performances of previous years. She finished many competitions with fifth place: 5th place Super-G World Cup/Overall, 5th place Park City Giant Slalom, 5th place Maribor Giant Slalom, 5th place Zwiesel Giant Slalom, 5th place Val d'Isère Super-G, 5th place Bad Kleinkirchheim Super-G or third place in the Vail Super-G.
Only when the Lenggries woman's health improved again in the following 1997/98 racing season did her successes return. In 1998 she took part in the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. There she came in second best in the combination - behind Katja Seitzinger. She took the ungrateful fourth place in the slalom and the giant slalom in this international competition. In the giant slalom World Cup she came second ahead of the Italian ski racer Deborah Compagnoni. She also achieved second place in the overall World Cup. Participation in the World Championships in Vail, USA in 1999 was not particularly successful for the German ski racer. She didn't achieve a medal place and was plagued by injuries, so she had to end the season early. She therefore slipped to fourth place in the overall World Cup.
It was only in 2001 that she was able to build on her performance potential. Martina Ertl took part in the 2001 World Championships in Sankt Anton. There she became world champion in the combination and thus reached a high point in her skiing career to date. The 2001/02 racing season did not deliver satisfactory results in the World Cup. Ertl started at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and won the bronze medal in the combination with third place. She ended up fifth in the slalom competition. Her other track record included, among others, in the 1997/1998 season: 1st place in the giant slalom - World Cup/overall ranking; 2000/2001: 1st place giant slalom Sölden, 2nd place Slalom Part City, 2nd place Slalom Aspen, 3rd place Super-G Lake Louise, 1st place combination St. Anton and 2nd place Slalom Åre. In 2005 she won gold in the Nations Team event at the 2005 Alpine World Ski Championships in Bormio. In the same year she married the ex-triathlete Sven Renz. Together with her husband she runs a specialty ski and running shoe shop in Munich.
On March 19, 2006, she ended her professional career in Åre. Their daughter Romy-Sophia was born in July 2007.