Eder, Sylvia

Sylvia Eder was born on August 24, 1965 in the St. Johann in Tirol fair commune, spent her childhood in Leogang , where she began to seriously engage in skiing, in particular, she was a member of the local club of the same name SC Leogang.

She first made herself known in 1981, when she joined the Austrian national team and attended the European Junior Championships in Slovenian Schkofja Lok, from where she brought gold and bronze dignity awards, won in combination and downhill, respectively. In the same season she made her debut in the standings of the Alpine Skiing World Cup.

In 1982 she won the silver medal in combination at the Junior World Championships in Oron, won the downhill race at the home stage of the World Cup in Bad Gastein and competed in the adult world championship in Schladming , where she showed the eighteenth result in downhill.

Thanks to a series of successful performances, she won the right to defend the country's honor at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo - she finished thirteenth in the downhill and took 34th place in the giant slalom.

At the 1985 World Championships in Bormio, she closed the top ten in downhill skiing, became the twelfth in slalom, while in combination she was in second place, missing only the titled Swiss Swiss Eric Hess , and thereby won the silver medal. Two years later, at similar competitions in Crans-Montana, she repeated this achievement, again lost in combination to Erica Hess.

Being among the leaders of the Austrian skiing team, she successfully passed the selection for the 1988 Olympic Games in Calgary - this time she took 25th place in the super giant and showed the twelfth result in combination.

In 1991, she performed at the home world championship in Saalbach-Hinterglemm , where she finished fifteenth in the giant slalom and seventh in the super giant.

She represented the country at the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville - she started here exclusively in giant slalom, settling in this discipline on the ninth line.

At the 1993 World Championships in Morioka, she became thirteenth in giant slalom, while she won a silver medal in supergiant - only German Katya Zeitsinger finished better than her.

In 1994, she went to perform at the Olympic Games in Lillehammer , where she took 14th and 15th places in the giant slalom and super giant, respectively.

13 years after his first victory at the World Cup, in December 1994, Eder won the stage in the American Weila - this time in the super giant program.

Subsequently, she remained an active athlete until 1995. Over the course of her long sports career, she climbed the podium for the World Cup stages 11 times, including two stages she won. She never managed to win the Crystal Globe, but in one of the seasons she was second in the final standings of the super giant. The highest position in the overall classification of all disciplines is 16th place. He is, among other things, a seven-time champion of Austria in various ski disciplines.

Her younger sister, Elfie Eder, also became a fairly well-known skier, won the stages of the World Cup, and was one of the winners at the Olympic Games and World Championships ^[1] .

• Österreichischer Skiverband (Hrsg.): Österreichische Skistars von A – Z. Ablinger & Garber, Hall in Tirol 2008, ISBN 978-3-9502285-7-1 , S. 61–62.
• Joachim Glaser: Salzburger Sportler. Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg-München 2001, ISBN 3-7025-0426-5 , S. 12-14.

• Sylvia Eder - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
• Sylvia Eder - statistics on the FIS website
• Sylvia Eder - page in Alpine Ski Database