Elda Piller Hoffer comes from a sports-loving family, among others her sister Licia Piller Hoffer was a successful archery biathlete. At the top 15 races in 2001 in Pokljuka , she was sixth in the mass start race, and fourth in Ruhpolding a year later . At the 2004 World Cup in Pokljuka, Piller Hoffer was eighth in the sprint, seventh in the pursuit and did not finish in the mass start race. With her sister and Nadia Peyrot , she also won the relay silver medal behind the mighty Russians, replacing Stefania D'Andrea , the long-standing top performer of the Italian national team . Also in 2005She won in Forni Avoltri for the second time, as in the cast of the previous year, silver behind Russia. Together with her siblings and other relatives, she owns a working excursion hut near the Piave .