Benjamin Eder
Benjamin Eder ![]() |
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birthday | 5th November 1980 (age 39) |
place of birth | Braunau am Inn , Austria |
Career | |
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Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup | 2000 (?) |
Debut in the World Cup | 2000 |
status | resigned |
End of career | 2001 |
World Cup balance | |
last change: end of career |
Benjamin Eder (born November 5, 1980 in Braunau ) is a former Austrian biathlete .
Benjamin Eder comes from Munderfing . He started biathlon in 1994. He contested his first international races at the 1998 Junior World Championships in Jericho . In the individual he was 23rd, in the sprint race eleventh. A year later he was in Pokljuka 19th in the individual, 32nd in the sprint, 23rd in the pursuit and tenth in the relay race. In 2009 he won a sprint and a pursuit in the Junior European Cup in Jablonec nad Nisou . At the next major event, the junior race of the Biathlon European Championships 2000 in Kościelisko , Eder won the individual title and was behind Nikolai Kruglow the silver medal. He did not start in the pursuit race. The Junior World Championships in Hochfilzen in 2000 followed . Eder consistently achieved top ten placings: he finished sixth in the sprint, seventh in the pursuit race and fifth in the individual and relay races. At the start of the 2000/01 season , Eder made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup , where he was 52nd of an individual in his first race in Hochfilzen. In the further course of the season he was able to achieve his best placement in the World Cup as 51st of an individual in Osrblie . In the European Cup of the season he reached the end of the season in Champex-Lac behind René Gerth and Dani Niederberger with third place, a first podium place, in the following relay race he was second behind the relay from Germany with Hans-Peter Foidl , Friedrich Pinter and Günther Beck . The highlight of the season and the end of his career were the 2001 European Biathlon Championships in Haute-Maurienne . Eder did not finish his individual, in the relay race he was ninth as a starting runner with Friedrich Pinter, Hans Achorner and Günther Beck.
Today Eder works as a ski technician for the ÖSV biathlon team and lives in Thalgau . In the summer of 2018 he married the Finnish biathlete Mari Laukkanen .
Biathlon 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
placement | singles | sprint | persecution | Mass start | team | Season | total |
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Starts | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||
Status : after the end of your career |
Web links
- Benjamin Eder in the IBU database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Eder, Benjamin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian biathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th November 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunau |