Alfred Eder

Alfred Eder ( born December 28, 1953 in Piesendorf ) is an Austrian biathlon coach and former biathlete. As an active athlete Eder had a nearly 20 -year career. He took part in six Olympic Winter Games and is one of the record participants Winter Games. With two bronze medals at world championships Eder is the most successful biathlete in Austria his playing days.

Life and career

Alfred Eder launched for the Heeressportverein Saalfelden. The sport soldier began in the mid 1970s with the sport of biathlon and entered in 1976 in Antholz first time at Biathlon World Championships and was 29th of the sprint. A week later, he competed in the individual of the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976 and was 21 and with Franz -Josef Weber, Klaus Farbmacher and Josef Hones 15th of the season race. In the Biathlon World Championships 1977 in Vingrom the ranks were added 41 in singles and 35 in the sprint. In 1978 he was in Hochfilzen 13 of the Single Page, eleventh of the sprint and with Joseph Koll, Siegfried Dockner and Franz -Josef Weber Season - fifth. Also In 1979, Eder in Ruhpolding with tenth place in singles, eight in the Sprint and six good results in the relay. In 1980 he han for the second time in the Olympic Games, where he was the 24th of the Single Page, 23, of the sprint and with Rudolf Horn, Weber and Koll eighth in the relay race.

In Lahti Eder reached with the relay again top -20 results in 1981 with rank 19 in singles, 14 in the sprint and ten. After the Austrians in 1982 only started in single in Minsk and was 22, he took part in the following year, particularly successful world championships. In Antholz, he was 12 of the Single Page, seventh in the relay and he won behind Eirik Kvalfoss and Peter Angerer in the sprint race with the first Austrian biathlon bronze medal in the world championship history. Not so successfully ran the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Eder was 34th Single Page, 22, of the sprint and with Horn, Walter Hoerl and Franz Schuler as four years earlier used as a starter for eighth in the relay competition. Successful season in the Biathlon World Cup was the 1984 / 85th He won a sprint in Antholz and was second in the Single Page. In the overall standings of the season Eder was fourth. At the World Championships 1985 in Ruhpolding Eder missed in fourth place of the sprint against Johann Passler the renewed winning a medal. He was also 21 of the Single Page and tenth in the relay race. A second bronze medal he won in 1986 in Oslo behind Valeri Medwedzew and André Sehmisch in singles and ran in the sprint to the tithe as well as in a relay race to seventh place. In Lake Placid in 1987 two 29 ranks were added in single and Sprint.

In his fourth Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 Eder with Anton Lengauer - Stockner, Bruno Hofstätter and Schuler missed as the final runner in a relay race in fourth place by just 26 seconds a medal, but drew attention to mitfavorisierten seasons of the German Democratic Republic and Norway at the following ranks. In the individual he was 26, also in the sprint 40 At the World Championships in 1989 in Feistritz an der Drau he reached, now 35 years old, the last time in ninth place in a single top- ten finish and was 20th of the sprint and seventh, the team. After mean results at the next World Championships he took in Albertville part in his fifth Olympics and was the 30th of the function SINGLE and 53 of the sprint. Two years later, Eder took part in Lillehammer last time and for the sixth time in the Olympic Games. The 40- year-old was the oldest Austrians at the games. In his only Renne, the individual, he again achieved a very good result with tenth place. Recent international championship were the Biathlon World Championships 1995 in Canmore, where again remained the only single use. Eder was 50th After the season, the Austrians ended his career.

National Eder won in 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1992 titles in singles, 1984, 1987, 1989 and 1990 in the sprint. Other medals he won in individual, sprint and relay competition. After his career was Eder trainer where he trained, among others, as a club coach at HSV Saalfelden and Julian Tobias Eberhard. Since the 2000s, he is also coach of Austria and thus heavily involved in the recovery of the austrian biathletes. Among the successful athletes of the time including his son Simon Eder.

Results at international championships

World Cup rankings

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).