Simon Eder

Simon Eder
Association	Austria
birthday	23rd February 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Zell am See , Austria
size	186 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
job	Sports soldier
society	HSV Saalfelden
Trainer	Alfred Eder Ricco Groß (since 2018)
Admission to the national team	1998
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2003
Debut in the World Cup	2006
World Cup victories	7 (3 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 3 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × JEM medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2010 Vancouver Season bronze 2014 Sochi Season  Biathlon world championships silver 2009 Pyeongchang Season bronze 2016 Oslo singles bronze 2017 Hochfilzen Season bronze 2017 Hochfilzen Mass start  Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2002 Ridnaun singles bronze 2004 Haute Maurienne sprint  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2003 Forni Avoltri sprint silver 2003 Forni Avoltri persecution
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	5. ( 2013/14 , 2015/16 )
Individual World Cup	2. ( 2013/14 , 2015/16 )
Sprint World Cup	5th ( 2012/13 )
Pursuit World Cup	2. ( 2009/10 , 2013/14 )
Mass start world cup	4. ( 2008/09 , 2014/15 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 2 2 sprint 0 0 1 persecution 2 6th 1 Mass start 1 1 4th Season 4th 9 11
last change: May 20, 2020

Simon Eder (born February 23, 1983 in Zell am See ) is an Austrian biathlete . After successes in the junior division, he has been competing in the World Cup since the mid-2000s and won his first race there in 2009. He placed in the top ten of the overall World Cup rankings several times and won six medals at World Championships and Olympic Games, four of them with the relay. Much attention was paid to Eder's shooting bouts, which were among the fastest in the World Cup with an average duration of less than 20 seconds.

Athletic career

Beginnings and successes in the junior sector (until 2004)

Simon Eder comes from Saalfelden and came into contact with biathlon at an early age through his father, the World Cup winner and six-time Olympian Alfred Eder . Alfred Eder looked after his son for a large part of his career: first in the junior division, from 2005 to 2012 as the biathlon head coach in the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV), later as a private trainer. Simon Eder , who started for HSV Saalfelden , has been a member of the ÖSV as a squad athlete since 1998 .

At the age of 18, Eder won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in 2002 in the 15-kilometer individual race ahead of Michael Rösch and Artyom Jakowlewitsch Gussew . Eder hit 19 of 20 shots and became the first Austrian junior world champion. By the end of his junior years in 2004, he won further medals in his age group at world and European championships - including the 2003 EM title in the sprint - and won several races in the European Junior Cup. He also received his first appearance in the Biathlon World Cup at the Ruhpolding sprint in January 2003 (he had to give up the race due to a fever) and in December 2003 stood third in Obertilliach for the first time on the podium at a European Cup in the adult division.

Delayed promotion to the World Cup team (2004 to 2009)

Simon Eder at the World Cup in Antholz 2010

Looking back, Eder stated that between 2004 and 2006 he over-trained and "slipped into a kind of burnout". He wanted to quickly catch up with the achievements of the World Cup team and the prevailing attitude was that hard training in particular leads to success. He started the 2006/07 season at his “basic level” after a medically recommended two-month training break. This winter Eder came in his tenth World Cup race, a sprint in Hochfilzen , 22nd for the first time in the points. He also qualified for the 2007 World Championships in Antholz , where he finished 68th in the individual and finished sixth with the Austrian relay team led by Daniel Mesotitsch , Friedrich Pinter and Christoph Sumann .

From the 2007/08 World Cup season onwards , Eder was a permanent member of the Austrian World Cup team and established himself as one of the strongest athletes: In 2008, after several top ten results, he was eighteenth in the overall World Cup ranking and thus second-best Austrian behind Friedrich Pinter. In the following year he ranked twelfth and ran several times on the podium in individual races. He succeeded in this for the first time in the pursuit of Antholz in January 2009, when he improved from 19th place in the sprint to second behind Björn Ferry with a clean shooting . Shortly after he won the silver medal in the relay at the 2009 World Championships , he took a third and two second places on a race weekend in Trondheim in March (each behind Ole Einar Bjørndalen ). At the end of the season in Khanty-Mansiysk , Eder was the only one of the 30 participants to fail in the mass start and won a World Cup race for the first time in front of his teammate Dominik Landertinger .

Particular attention attracted Eder's shooting bouts, which lasted an average of 18 to 19 seconds in 2009, so that they were temporarily the fastest in the World Cup and - based on the comic hero who pulls "faster than his own shadow" - earned him the nickname Lucky Luke . Eder saw himself in the tradition of athletes like Raphaël Poirée and Michael Rösch , who had co-founded the trend "away from the greatest possible safety and towards calculated risk". Initially, his hit rate over the season was around 80% on average for the World Cup field. In the further course of his career he was able to increase it to up to 91%, making him the safest shooter in the entire World Cup in the meantime (in the 2018/19 season).

Establishment in the international top and Olympic relay medals (2009 to 2016)

Starting with twelfth place in 2009, Eder achieved nine winters in a row results between 5th and 15th place in the overall World Cup, with the exception of the 2011/12 season , in which he missed several competitions and was 34th. During these years he was consistently scoring points in individual World Cup races and in 2015 the sports website laola1.at rated him as a “great constant” in the Austrian team. In 2014 and 2016 Eder celebrated two more individual World Cup victories, both of which he achieved in the pursuit, each coming from sixth place in the sprint: In March 2014, he hit all 20 targets at Oslo's Holmenkollen and won with a 20.7 second lead over Björn Ferry ; Almost two years later - in January 2016 in Ruhpolding - he was the only athlete from a five-man leading group around Martin Fourcade and Johannes Thingnes Bø to make no mistakes in the last shooting and won ahead of Fourcade. In addition, there have been further podium results over the years, especially at the 2016 World Championships in Oslo, where Eder, like Dominik Landertinger, made no mistakes in the 20-kilometer individual race and won the bronze medal behind Martin Fourcade and his teammate Landertinger.

Together with Daniel Mesotitsch, Dominik Landertinger and (until his resignation in 2014) Christoph Sumann, Eder was a member of the ÖSV relay at major events, until 2013 primarily as a starting runner, then in a changing position. The team won the silver medal in this constellation in the 2010 Olympic relay race in Vancouver and bronze four years later at the Sochi Games. After a four-year break, the Austrians also won a relay World Cup race in Ruhpolding in January 2014, with Eder running in third place leading the team with a "fast, flawless standing series".

Training with the biathlon forge and return to the ÖSV (since 2016)

Eder standing shooting (here 2020 in Oberhof)

Already in preparation for the 2015/16 season , Eder trained separately from the men's training group and instead together with the ÖSV women supervised by his cousin Sandra Flunger . He justified this step with the high level of competition in the high-performance men's team, which leads to the fact that you already exceed your own limits during preparation and do not pursue the individually optimal training intensity. In addition, he saw Flunger next to his father - who had lost his position as head coach in 2012 - as the most important reference person. In 2016, Flunger separated from the ÖSV and, together with Alfred Eder, took over the management of the Biathlonschmiede training group , which was independent of the ski association , and was joined by several athletes, including Simon Eder as the only man. At the 2017 home world championships in Hochfilzen, Eder won the only Austrian individual medal: In the mass start, he hit with all 20 shots and finished third behind Simon Schempp and Johannes Thingnes Bø , who overtook him on the final lap. He also won bronze with the relay alongside Daniel Mesotitsch, Julian Eberhard and Dominik Landertinger. In the World Cup, Eder and Lisa Hauser won two races in the single mixed relay, in March 2017 in Kontiolahti and in November 2017 in Östersund .

The biathlon forge disbanded when Sandra Flunger switched to the Swiss Ski Association in summer 2018, Simon Eder and the other athletes were fully integrated again into the ÖSV team, whose men have now been trained by Ricco Groß . With Daniel Mesotitsch's resignation in 2019, Eder became the most experienced athlete on the Austrian World Cup team. In the World Cup, he continued to achieve top 10 results and was consistently placed in the top 30 in the overall ranking, thanks in particular to his hit rates of around 90%, which were among the best in the World Cup field. After the arrest of several, including Austrian, cross-country skiers as a result of the doping raids at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 ( Operation Aderlass ), Eder said in an interview with the daily newspaper Die Presse that he had also been offered doping in the past, which he immediately did Federal Criminal Police Office reported. Later, Eder, who had already spoken out in favor of harsher doping penalties against the Russian Federation in 2017, justified his motivation to publicize the events by saying that he - especially as a veteran - wanted to show that people work cleanly in Austrian biathlon.

Personal and awards

Eder is currently an army athlete in the Austrian Armed Forces with the rank of platoon leader . In the meantime he was employed by the Federal Police and temporarily - in the 2011/12 season - biathlon professional without any sideline activity. Eder has been married since 2017 and has a daughter (* 2014). As a left-hander, he is one of the few left-handed shooters in the World Cup. With a view to his commitment to doping-free sport, his motto is: “Run fast, shoot clean. Shoot fast, run clean. "( English for:" Run fast, shoot clean (error-free). Shoot fast, run clean. ").

In 2009 Eder was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

statistics

World Cup victories

All victories at biathlon world cups, listed separately according to individual and relay races. The columns can be sorted by clicking the symbol in the table header.

Single race	Relay race
No. date place discipline 1. 29 Mar 2009  Khanty-Mansiysk Mass start 2. 22 Mar 2014  Oslo persecution 3. 0Jan. 9, 2016  Ruhpolding persecution	No. date place discipline 1. Dec 13, 2009  Hochfilzen Season 1 2. Jan. 12, 2014  Ruhpolding Season 1 3. March 12 2017  Kontiolahti Single mixed season 2 4th Nov 26, 2017  Ostersund Single mixed season 2 1together with Daniel Mesotitsch , Dominik Landertinger and Christoph Sumann 2together with Lisa Hauser

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			2	1	4th	7th
2nd place	2		6th	1	9	18th
3rd place	2	1	1	4th	11	19th
Top 10	10	25th	30th	22nd	58	145
Scoring	32	100	78	50	66	326
Starts	39	123	86	51	66	365
Status: end of season 2019/20

World Cup ratings

Results at biathlon world cups (discipline and overall world cup) according to the point system

season	singles		sprint		persecution		Mass start		total
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2006/07	8th	49.	12	58.	-	-			20th	68.
2007/08	59	8th.	105	21st	111	18th	73	18th	348	18th
2008/09	40	36.	179	16.	186	6th	176	4th	581	12.
2009/10	67	18th	224	11.	196	2.	137	10.	653	8th.
2010/11	73	19th	209	12.	183	5.	117	13.	582	11.
2011/12	82	10.	93	36.	67	37.	11	49.	253	34.
2012/13	30th	40.	260	5.	179	11.	140	9.	607	11.
2013/14	79	2.	228	9.	237	3.	49	23.	585	5.
2014/15	31	32.	177	21st	140	18th	174	4th	522	15th
2015/16	138	2.	213	9.	254	5.	109	18th	714	5.
2016/17	58	18th	167	15th	215	8th.	112	14th	552	13.
2017/18	58	7th	107	23.	180	9.	104	15th	449	18th
2018/19	86	7th	221	12.	241	9.	153	8th.	701	8th.
2019/20	56	17th	58	40.	44	33.	116	14th	274	24.

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
2007	Antholz	-	-	68.	-	6th	-
2008	Ostersund	33.	23.	20th	15th	4th	-
2009	Pyeongchang	8th.	14th	-	8th.	2.	-
2011	Khanty-Mansiysk	17th	14th	17th	9.	9.	-
2012	Ruhpolding	46.	34.	23.	-	5.	-
2013	Nové Město	10.	12.	42.	18th	5.	-
2015	Kontiolahti	46.	12.	20th	19th	5.	5.
2016	Oslo	27.	16.	3.	11.	4th	5.
2017	Hochfilzen	22nd	12.	12.	3.	3.	9.
2019	Ostersund	15th	10.	DNF	7th	8th.	-	8th.
2020	Antholz	37.	12.	40.	-	6th	-	6th

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
2010 Winter Olympics | Vancouver	11.	4th	6th	25th	2.
Olympic Winter Games 2014 | Sochi	7th	8th.	4th	16.	3.	-
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	28.	14th	11.	14th	4th	10.

Web links

Commons : Simon Eder  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Simon Eder in the database of the IBU (English)
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Simon Eder. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Silke Burgsteiner: A life for biathlon sport. In: Platzhirsch. March 2018, pp. 10–12. Sandra Flunger - the niece of Alfred Eders and cousin Simon Eders and later ÖSV women's trainer - stated that she and Simon reenacted the Alfred Eders competitions in the garden with a wooden rifle.
3. ↑ Henriette Werner: "Many points should be changed" on laola1.at, February 16, 2014.
4. ↑ Simon Eder's profile on oesv.at, accessed on May 19, 2020.
5. ^ Biathlon: Gold for Austria for the first time at the Junior World Championships. In: The Standard. February 2, 2002.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Christoph Nister: "Like a phoenix from the ashes". In: Kronen Zeitung. January 12, 2019.
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Christoph Nister: Simon Eder: "I was disrespectful" on laola1.at. March 11, 2015, accessed May 19, 2020.
8. ↑ In good shape again with the new ammunition. In: Courier. December 8, 2017, p. 16. Retrieved via PressReader . “The problem was that as a young athlete you think of yourself and everyone tells you: You have to train. It was just a different time. At that time, the opinion was still that whoever trains the hardest is also the most successful. "
9. ↑ At the beginning of winter 2007/08, Eder was still in the A-squad of the ÖSV and thus not in the higher-ranking national team, to which he only belonged from 2008, cf. The Nordic ÖSV squad 2007/08 (In: Wiener Zeitung. May 7, 2007) and Austria's national biathlon squad announced (on biathlon-online.de, published on May 10, 2008).
10. ↑ Life is a black disc. In: Small newspaper. December 10, 2009, p. 63. Retrieved from PressReader .
11. ^ ^{A b} Giulio Gasparin: Everything with the left. In: Biathlonworld , number 48/2018, pp. 84–87.
12. ↑ Viktoria Franke: Interview with Simon Eder: "I'm not that good a shooter" on biathlon-online.de. September 5, 2009, accessed on May 19, 2020. “Although I have to say that I actually cannot understand this image of the flawless shooter that the media have of me. My hit rate last year was only 80%, [...] "
13. ↑ ^{a b} IBU Biathlon Guide 2019/20, pp. 374–375.
14. ↑ Simon Eder triumphs in Ruhpolding. In: The Standard. January 9, 2016.
15. ↑ Biathlon: Men's relay wins in Ruhpolding. In: The press. January 9, 2014. Eder started the race 22.1 seconds back in fourth and was in first place after his second shooting, roughly level with the German Erik Lesser , who handed over with 4.7 seconds ahead of him.
16. ↑ Christoph Nister: The country needs new heroes on laola1.at. December 4, 2015, accessed May 20, 2020.
17. ↑ Training with the women inspired Eder. In: Salzburger Nachrichten. 11 January 2016, p. 19. Retrieved via PressReader .
18. ↑ Away from the ÖSV mainstream. on sportv2.orf.at. February 7, 2017, accessed May 18, 2020.
19. ↑ An ideal couple sets the goal. In: Salzburger Nachrichten. December 5, 2018, p. 17. Retrieved via PressReader .
20. ↑ Biathlete Eder was "offered something" some time ago on sport.orf.at. March 6, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2020. See Christoph Gastinger: Biathlete Simon Eder: "Doping? I was also offered something". In: The press. 5th March 2019.
21. ↑ Roman Stelzl: Biathlon veteran Eder: “Ten years too little happened”. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper. Last updated on December 18, 2019.
22. ↑ List of competitive athletes in the armed forces as of February 13, 2019 on the Armed Forces website, accessed on April 3, 2020.
23. ↑ Gerhard Öhlinger: Chance has no chance with Simon Eder. In: Salzburger Nachrichten. October 3, 2011, p. 17. Retrieved via PressReader . “I don't want to leave anything to chance anymore and have dared to take the step to become a professional. I am now exclusively a biathlete, my work in the police is over after two and a half very nice years. "
24. ↑ Eder's special talisman on his birthday. In: Salzburger Nachrichten. February 23, 2018. p. 22. Retrieved via PressReader .
25. ↑ Simon Eder , portrait on atomic.com, accessed on March 17, 2019
26. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved December 9, 2015.