Martina Maria Ertl-Renz (born 12 September 1973) is a German former alpine skier. She was two times world champion and also won several medals at Olympic Winter Games and World Championships.^[1]

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Martina Ertl

Personal information
Born	(1973-09-12) 12 September 1973 (age 50) Bad Tölz, Upper Bavaria, West Germany
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Technical and speed events
Club	SC Lenggries
World Cup debut	1992
Retired	2006
Olympics
Teams	5
Medals	3 (0 gold)
World Championships
Teams	7
Medals	4 (2 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	15
Wins	14
Podiums	57
Overall titles	2
Discipline titles	17
Medal record Olympic Games 1994 Lillehammer Giant slalom 1998 Nagano Combined 2002 Salt Lake City Combined World Championships 2001 St. Anton Combined 2005 Bormio Team event 1993 Morioka Giant slalom 1996 Sierra Nevada Giant slalom World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Slalom 2 4 5 Giant slalom 10 8 4 Super-G 2 8 7 Downhill 0 0 1 Combined 0 3 2 Parallel 0 1 0 Total 14 24 19

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Martina Ertl is the sister of the German alpine ski Andreas Ertl.^[2]

Ertl started skiing at the age of two and a half. At the age of 18 she participated in the Junior World Championship in Hemsedal (Norway) winning a silver medal in Giant slalom and a bronze medal in Combined.

This was the starting point of a long career. Until 2006 she took part in 430 World Cup races winning 14 of them. Ertl won the giant slalom World Cup in 1996 and 1998. She won three Olympic medals and four medals at World Championships (Bronze in giant slalom at Morioka 1993, Bronze medalist in giant slalom at Sierra Nevada 1996, Gold in Combined at St. Anton 2001, Gold in Nation Team Event at Bormio 2005).

She represented Germany at five Winter Olympics between 1992 and 2006, winning silver medals in the giant slalom in 1994 and the combined event in 1998, as well as a bronze medal in the combined event in 2002.^[3]