Alfred Eder

Alfred Eder
Association	Austria
birthday	December 28, 1953
place of birth	Piesendorf
Career
job	Biathlon coach
society	HSV Saalfelden
World Cup victories	1 ?
status	resigned
End of career	1995
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 1983 Antholz sprint bronze 1986 Oslo singles
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	4. ( 1984/85 )
last change: end of career

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

life and career

Alfred Eder started for the Heeressportverein Saalfelden . The sports soldier began biathlon in the mid-1970s and competed for the first time in 1976 in Antholz biathlon world championships and finished 29th in the sprint. A week later he started the singles of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and finished 21st and with Franz-Josef Weber , Klaus Farbmacher and Josef Hones 15th in the relay race. At the Biathlon World Championships in 1977 in Vingrom , the ranks 41 in the individual and 35 in the sprint were added. 1978 he was in Hochfilzen 13 of the function SINGLE, eleventh of the sprint and Josef Koll , Siegfried Dockner and Franz-Josef Weber Season-fifth. Also in 1979 Eder achieved good results in Ruhpolding with tenth place in the individual, eighth in the sprint and six with the relay. In 1980 he took part in the Olympic Games for the second time, where he was 24th in the individual, 23rd in the sprint and eighth in the relay race with Rudolf Horn , Weber and Koll.

In Lahti , Eder again achieved top 20 results in 1981 with 19th place in the individual, 14th in the sprint and ten with the relay. After the Austrian started singles in Minsk in 1982 and finished 22nd, he took part in particularly successful world championships the following year . In Antholz he was 12th of the individual, seventh with the relay and he won behind Eirik Kvalfoss and Peter Angerer in the sprint race with bronze, the first Austrian biathlon medal in world championship history. The 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo were not so successful . Eder was 34th of the individual, 22nd of the sprint and with Horn, Walter Hörl and Franz Schuler, like four years earlier, was used as a starting runner, eighth in the relay competition. The most successful season in the Biathlon World Cup was the 1984/85 season . He won a sprint in Antholz and was second in the individual. In the overall ranking of the season, Eder was fourth. At the 1985 World Championships in Ruhpolding , Eder missed out on winning a medal when he finished fourth in the sprint against Johann Passler . He was also 21st of the individual and tenth in the relay race. He won a second bronze medal in 1986 in Oslo behind Valeri Medwedzew and André Sehmisch in the individual and ran in the sprint to tenth and in the relay race to seventh place. In 1987 Lake Placid added two 29th places in individual and sprint.

At his fourth Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988 , Eder missed a medal with Anton Lengauer-Stockner , Bruno Hofstätter and Schuler as the final runners in the relay race in fourth place by almost 26 seconds, but relegated the other favorite relays of the GDR and Norway to the following ranks. In the individual he was also 26th, in the sprint 40. At the World Championships in 1989 in Feistritz an der Drau , meanwhile 35 years old, he reached the top ten for the last time with ninth place in the individual and was 20th in the sprint and seventh with the Team. After average results at the next World Championships, he took part in his fifth Olympic Games in Albertville and was 30th of the individual and 53rd of the sprint. Two years later , Eder took part in the Olympic Games for the last time and for the sixth time in Lillehammer . The 40-year-old was the oldest Austrian at the games. In his only race, the individual, he achieved another very good result with tenth place. The last international championship was the 1995 Biathlon World Championships in Canmore , where again the individual was the only use. Eder was 50. After the season , the Austrian ended his career.

Eder won national titles in 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1992 in individual, 1984, 1987, 1989 and 1990 in sprint. He won other medals in singles, sprints and the relay competition. After his career Eder became a trainer, where he trained as a club trainer at HSV Saalfelden Tobias and Julian Eberhard . Since the 2000s he has also been the national coach of Austria and thus has been heavily involved in the upswing of Austrian biathletes. His son Simon Eder is one of the successful athletes of the time .

From 2014 Eder was to become the coach of the Belarusian women's team, succeeding Klaus Siebert , who ended his collaboration with the Belarusian association for health reasons at the end of the 2013/14 season. In April 2014, however, the Belarusian Fjodar Swobada , who had worked with Siebert as an assistant coach since 2011, was named for this post. Since September 2014, however, Eder has been officially confirmed as the head coach of the Belarusian women.

Results at international championships

event	singles	sprint	Season	team
World Cup 1976 in Antholz		29
OS 1976 in Innsbruck	21st		15th
World Cup 1977 in Vingrom	41	35
World Cup 1978 in Hochfilzen	13	11	05
World Cup 1979 in Ruhpolding	10	08th	06th
OS 1980 in Lake Placid	24	23	06th
World Cup 1981 in Lahti	19th	14th	10
World Cup 1982 in Minsk	22nd
World Cup 1983 in Antholz	12	03	07th
OS 1984 in Sarajevo	34	22nd	08th
1985 World Cup in Ruhpolding	21st	04th	10
World Cup 1986 in Oslo	03	10	07th
World Cup 1987 in Lake Placid	29	29
OS 1988 in Calgary	26th	40	04th
1989 World Cup in Feistritz	09	20th		07th
World Cup 1990 in Minsk / Oslo / Kontiolahti	27	12	07th	05
World Cup 1991 in Lahti	26th	18th	12	09
OS 1992 in Albertville	30th	53
World Cup 1992 in Novosibirsk
World Cup 1993 in Borowetz	30th
OS 1994 in Lillehammer	10
World Cup 1995 in Canmore	50

World Cup placements

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

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relay

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place		1					1
2nd place	1	1					2
3rd place	5	3					8th
Top 10	15th	17th			3	10	45
Scoring	40	35			3	13	91
Starts	61	55			3	13	132
Status : End of career, including World Cup and Olympics, data not complete

Web links

• Alfred Eder in the IBU database (English)
• Alfred Eder in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at the-sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fyodor Svoboda replaces Klaus Siebert in the Belarusian women's team
2. ↑ Старшым трэнерам жаночай зборнай Беларусі па біятлоне стаў Фёдар Свобада (White Russian, translation. For head coach of Belarusian women Biathlon Team Fjodar Swobada was) ( Memento of the originals of 9 December 2014 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.