Sylvia Eder

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Sylvia Eder Alpine skiing
nation AustriaAustria Austria
birthday 24th August 1965 (age 55)
place of birth St. Johann in Tirol , Austria
size 172 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society SC Leogang
status resigned
End of career 1995
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 3 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior World Championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Junior European Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
silver Bormio 1985 combination
silver Crans-Montana 1987 combination
silver Morioka 1993 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
silver Auron 1982 combination
FIS Alpine Junior European Ski Championships
gold Škofja Loka 1981 combination
bronze Škofja Loka 1981 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 8, 1981
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 16. ( 1992/93 )
 Downhill World Cup 7. ( 1983/84 )
 Super G World Cup 2. ( 1987/88 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 5. ( 1990/91 )
 Slalom World Cup 29th ( 1985/86 )
 Combination World Cup 6. ( 1986/87 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 1 0 3
 Super G 1 1 3
 Giant slalom 0 0 1
 combination 0 1 0
 

Sylvia Eder (born August 24, 1965 in St. Johann in Tirol ) is a former Austrian ski racer . She took in all disciplines at World Cup races in part, was first in the downhill and the combined successfully and later specialized in the disciplines of Super G and giant slalom . Eder won three silver medals in world championships and two races in the world cup - almost 13 years apart. To this day she is the youngest winner of a World Cup downhill. In the 1987/88 season she was second in the Super G World Cup.

biography

Sylvia Eder was born in St. Johann in Tirol and grew up in Leogang in the state of Salzburg . Her younger sisters Elfi , who also competed in the World Cup for many years, and Birgit, who won two medals at junior world championships but had to end their careers early after a cruciate ligament rupture , also became ski racers. Eder drove her first children's race at the age of five. In 1977 she won the giant slalom of the Trofeo Topolino in her age group . As a 14-year-old she was accepted into the junior team of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV). At the Junior European Championship in 1981 and the Junior World Championship in 1982 , she won a total of three medals, one each in gold (1981 combination), silver (1982 combination) and bronze (downhill 1981). On February 3 and 8, 1981, the then 15-year-old came in the combination of Zwiesel (slalom) and Haus im Ennstal (downhill) for her first World Cup competitions , where she took 15th position in the combination of these two competitions. After becoming the three-time Austrian youth champion in Bad Kleinkirchheim shortly afterwards , a month later she already achieved fifth place at her next World Cup start in the downhill from Aspen . In 1981 she became Austrian champion in slalom and combined for the first time . By 1987 she won a total of seven national championships. On January 18, 1982, Eder was third on the downhill from Bad Gastein on the podium in a World Cup race for the first time. One day later, at the age of 16, she celebrated her first World Cup victory in the second downhill of the silver jug ​​races in Bad Gastein. This makes her the youngest ever winner of a World Cup downhill run. At the subsequent World Cup in 1982 in Schladming , however, after failures in the combined and giant slalom, she only crossed the finish line in 18th place on the downhill.

In the following years, Eder remained at a consistently high level with numerous top 10 results and several podium places, with the downhill and the combination initially remaining her strongest disciplines. In the winter of 1983/84 she reached seventh place in the Downhill World Cup with two podium places in Megève and Mont Sainte-Anne - her best overall result in this discipline. In the previous year she had finished seventh in the combined World Cup. The 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo were rather disappointing for them with 13th place in the downhill and 34th place in the giant slalom. She was more successful at the 1985 World Cup in Bormio . With fifth place in the combined slalom and sixth place in the combined descent, she won the silver medal in the combination behind the Swiss Erika Hess . She was also tenth in the downhill and twelfth in the slalom. On the downhill she seemed close to winning the gold medal as she led on February 2nd. But the race had to be stopped due to the hurricane wind and restarted the following day. At the 1987 World Championships in Crans-Montana , Eder also won the silver medal in the combination - again behind the Swiss Hess. She also achieved fifth place in the Super-G, sixth in the downhill and 16th in the giant slalom.

In the World Cup, Eder continued to achieve several top 10 results, but from 1984/85 to 1986/87 she remained without a podium. In the summer of 1987, she wanted to leave her ski company, but was not hired by the other two she wanted, so she continued to drive the Alois Rohrmoser brand . After three years (3rd place in the downhill in Mont Sainte-Anne on March 3, 1984), she only managed to achieve a "podium place" on November 28, 1987 with another third place in the Super-G of Sestriere . Two weeks later she was second in the Super-G in Leukerbad . Finally, she reached second place in the Super-G World Cup in the 1987/88 season . From the mid-1980s onwards, she had increasingly transformed from a downhill and combination runner to a super-G and giant slalom runner. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , however, she only finished 25th in the Super-G. She finished twelfth in the Olympic combined. However, she was slightly handicapped by a torn ligament that she had recently suffered while driving to the World Cup downhill in Bad Gastein (January 23).

In the 1988/89 season , Eder could not quite match the previous year's results due to injury, so she was also absent from the 1989 World Cup . In the winter of 1989/90 she also stayed without a podium, only towards the end of the 1990/91 season , from which she concentrated practically exclusively on giant slalom and Super-G, did she finish third in the giant slalom of Lake Louise again among the top three. At the 1991 World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , not far from her home town of Leogang, she had finished seventh in the Super-G and 15th in the giant slalom five weeks earlier. She finished the Giant Slalom World Cup in fifth place this winter.

Eder achieved a World Cup podium in each of the 1991/92 and 1992/93 seasons : on March 15, 1992 she was third in the Super-G of Panorama and on January 16, 1993 third in the Super-G of Cortina d'Ampezzo . In both years she finished fifth in the Super G World Cup. She celebrated the greatest success of these years at the 1993 World Championships in Morioka - Shizukuishi , when she won the silver medal in the Super-G behind the German Katja Seizinger . She was also 13th in the giant slalom. At the Olympic Games, however, Eder never achieved top results. In 1992 she finished ninth in giant slalom in Albertville and in 1994 she was 14th in giant slalom and 15th in super-G in Lillehammer .

After Eder was again without a World Cup podium in the winter of 1993/94 and had only achieved two top 5 placements at the end of the season, at the beginning of the 1994/95 season she succeeded in the second World Cup victory that many no longer expected: On 3. In December 1994 she was on the top step of the podium for the second time in the Vail Super-G with a lead of only two hundredths of a second over her teammate Veronika Wallinger - almost 13 years after her first World Cup victory. In the rest of the winter she was no longer in the top five, but in the Super-G World Cup she was sixth. Eder ended her career in the summer of 1995 because of disagreements with her ski company - she was not offered a contract that was acceptable to her. She married and had two daughters.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

Junior World and European Championships

  • Škofja Loka 1981 : 1st combination, 3rd descent, 4th slalom, 6th giant slalom
  • Auron 1982 : 2nd combination, 4th descent, 7th slalom, 8th giant slalom

World cup

  • 11 podium places, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
January 19, 1982 Bad Gastein Austria Departure
3rd December 1994 Vail United States Super G

Austrian championships

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Column 5, first article: «Ideal grade zero» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 16, 1981, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  2. ^ Women's Age Stats. www.ski-db.com, last accessed on May 1, 2012.
  3. ↑ Melted and blown: How gold became silver. Arbeiter-Zeitung , February 4, 1985, accessed March 18, 2015 .
  4. ^ "Kleine Zeitung Kärnten" of November 29, 1987, page 37
  5. ↑ right: “The decision for Eder is made today” . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 25, 1988, p. 20 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).
personal data
SURNAME Eder, Sylvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Johann in Tirol , Austria