Julian Eberhard

Julian Eberhard
Association	Austria
birthday	9th November 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Saalfelden , Austria
size	196 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
Trainer	Alfred Eder Reinhard Gösweiner Ricco Groß (since 2018)
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2007
Debut in the World Cup	2006
World Cup victories	4th
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 2 × JEM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 2017 Hochfilzen Season bronze 2019 Östersund Mass start  Biathlon Junior European Championships silver 2007 Bansko Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	6. ( 2016/17 )
Individual World Cup	12. ( 2017/18 )
Sprint World Cup	2. (2016/17)
Pursuit World Cup	7. (2016/17)
Mass start world cup	4. ( 2018/19 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. sprint 3 1 0 persecution 0 0 1 Mass start 1 1 1 Season 0 1 3
last change: May 22, 2020

Julian Eberhard (born November 9, 1986 in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer ) is an Austrian biathlete . He made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup in 2006 , won his first victory there in 2016 and won several competitions in the following years. At the 2019 World Championships in Östersund , he won the bronze medal in the mass start. Eberhard is one of the fastest runners in the biathlon world cup.

Career

Beginnings and first years in the World Cup (until 2015)

The Saalfelden top police athlete Julian Eberhard, younger brother of Tobias Eberhard , has been involved in biathlon since 1996. He is a member of HSV Saalfelden and trained there as a young athlete with Alfred Eder , who later became the head coach of the biathletes in the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV). In the youth and junior sector, Eberhard took part in several international championships from 2005. He achieved his best individual result in seventh place in the 15-kilometer individual race at the 2006 Junior World Championships . The following year, he and the junior relay team around Sven Grossegger , Andreas Zelzer and Dominik Landertinger won the silver medal behind Russia at the European Championships in Bansko, Bulgaria . He came on the podium four times in races of the Junior European Cup, but won no race.

Eberhard made his debut in the biathlon world cup in 2006 in a sprint in Hochfilzen , in which he was 57th and was able to qualify for the pursuer (54th). In the following years he was used in both the World Cup and the lower-class European Cup (from 2008: IBU Cup ). In the IBU Cup he won four races between November 2012 and January 2014 - three sprints and one pursuit - in the World Cup he reached the top ten in two sprint races up to 2015: initially in February 2011 in tenth place in Fort Kent , almost two years later as eighth in Ruhpolding . With these results, he lagged behind the successes of his teammates Eder , Landertinger, Mesotitsch and Sumann , who formed the core of the ÖSV biathlon team in the early 2010s and won World Cup races and Olympic medals. In 2013, Eberhard started at the World Championships for the first time and finished 16th in the mixed relay and 66th place in the sprint. At the 2014 Winter Olympics , he was a reserve runner in the six-man squad , but was not used.

Eberhard already presented himself as a particularly strong runner during these years: In winter 2012/13, for example, he was the third fastest athlete in the World Cup behind overall World Cup winner Martin Fourcade from France and the Norwegian Lars Berger , his times were almost four percent faster than the average of the field of participants. At 70 percent, however, his hit rate in shooting was the lowest in the ÖSV team. Eberhard finished the season in 40th place overall, which was his best result in this classification in the first ten years after his World Cup debut (until 2016).

World Cup victories and World Cup medals (since 2015)

Julian Eberhard (left) together with Benedikt Doll at the 2020 World Cup in Oberhof

In the 2015/16 season , Eberhard won his first World Cup race - also in the sprint - after a 7th place in the Hochfilzen sprint and a 4th place in the Canmore sprint at the end of the season in Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia . Flawlessly and with the second fastest time he prevailed against the equally flawless Germans Simon Schempp and Arnd Peiffer and pushed his teammate Dominik Landertinger off the podium. It was Eberhard's first podium in an individual race and the first sprint victory of an Austrian biathlete since Christoph Sumann in Osrblie, Slovakia in December 2001.

As the only Austrian biathlete, Eberhard won further individual World Cup competitions, two sprint races (in Oberhof and at the Olympic dress rehearsal in Pyeongchang ) and a mass start in Kontiolahti in the winters 2016/17 and 2017/18 . In the overall World Cup in 2016/17, he was sixth for the first time and was the best of the ÖSV team. Reinhard Gösweiner , who has looked after Eberhard as head coach of the Austrian team since 2014, attributed the "turnaround" in his athlete to the fact that he had thought too much about shooting for a long time, but now successfully "destroyed old systems" in training. “And replaced it with new ones. Eberhard's shooting performance in the competition remained inconsistent. In the sprint in particular (with only two instead of four shooting bouts), he occasionally managed to achieve races with only one shot or completely without a shot, but in others he missed almost half of all targets. His hit rate was still slightly below average by 75 percent. Eberhard maintained his strength on the trail, set several best times in the 2016/17 season and was the second fastest biathlete in the World Cup after Martin Fourcade over the entire winter.

From 2016, Eberhard was regularly used in major events - such as the World Cup - in the Austrian relay. Together with Daniel Mesotitsch, Simon Eder and Dominik Landertinger, he won bronze at the 2017 home World Cup in Hochfilzen and thus his first international medal at a major adult event. At the 2018 Olympic biathlon competitions in Pyeongchang, Eberhard was among the top twenty in all four individual competitions. In the sprint , he was fourth - after a penalty loop and a broken stick - missing the bronze place by just 0.7 seconds, and was 8.4 seconds behind the winner Arnd Peiffer. With the relay he was fourth in Pyeongchang, running in third position, he shot the only two penalties for the Austrian team and fell back from the top group. Eberhard secured his first individual medal at the 2019 World Championships in Östersund, where he came third in the final mass start when Dominik Windisch won .

statistics

World Cup victories

Single race
No. date place discipline 1. March 18, 2016  Khanty-Mansiysk sprint 2. January 5, 2017  Oberhof sprint 3. March 3, 2017  Pyeongchang sprint 4th March 11, 2018  Kontiolahti Mass start

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 relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place		3		1		4th
2nd place		1		1	3	5
3rd place			1	1	4th	6th
Top 10	1	21st	8th	6th	19th	55
Scoring	7th	52	49	24	29	161
Starts	20th	80	57	24	29	210
Status: end of season 2019/20

Biathlon world championships

Results at world championships:

World Championship		Individual competitions				Relay competitions
year	place	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay	S.-M.-Relay
2013	Nové Město	66.	-	-	-	-	16.
2015	Kontiolahti	44.	37.	-	-	-	-
2016	Oslo	36.	26th	58.	-	4th	-
2017	Hochfilzen	7th	8th.	14th	19th	3.	-
2019	Ostersund	16.	19th	41.	3.	8th.	-	-
2020	Antholz	26th	14th	DNF	9.	6th	-	-

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	4th	15th	17th	6th	4th	10.

Web links

Commons : Julian Eberhard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Julian Eberhard in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julian Eberhard. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Bronze for top police athlete Eberhard in the mass start. Federal Ministry of the Interior . 18th March 2019.
3. ^ APA : Biathlon: Eder and Eberhard on separate paths to the goal. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper. Updated on December 6, 2017. "I learned all my knowledge from Fred Eder, I still fall back on that."
4. ↑ Georg Schinwald: Olympia: Record for Salzburg - 28 participants in Sochi. In: Salzburger Nachrichten. January 28, 2014.
5. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2013/14, p. 428. Eberhard was also one of the leading runners in the World Cup in other seasons: in 2013/14 he was sixth in these statistics, and eighth in 2014/15.
6. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2013/14, pp. 145–151.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Josef Ebner: The search for the perfect race. In: The press. January 28, 2017.
8. ↑ Florian Vetter: Julian Eberhard, late-firing cross-country ski run. In: The Standard. February 8, 2017.
9. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2017/18, p. 328.
10. ↑ APA: Eberhard missed bronze in the biathlon sprint. In: The Standard. February 11, 2018.