Martin Rettl
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Nationality | Austraian | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Innsbruck, Austria | 25 November 1973||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Skeleton | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Martin Rettl (born 25 November 1973) is an Austrian skeleton racer who competed from 1989 to 2006. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a silver medal in the men's skeleton event at the games in Salt Lake City in 2002.
Rettl also won a gold medal in the men's skeleton event at the 2001 FIBT World Championships in Calgary. His best overall Skeleton World Cup seasonal finish was third in the men's event in 2001–2.
Retiring from skeleton after the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Martin is an air traffic controller in Innsbruck, Austria and coaches sliders from Belgium, New Zealand and Spain in the IBSF World Cup.
Career results
World Championships
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12th |
References
- 2006 men's skeleton results
- FIBT profile
- List of men's skeleton World Cup champions since 1987.
- Men's skeleton Olympic medalists since 1928 Archived 2020-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Men's skeleton world championship medalists since 1989
- Official website (in German)
External links