Sylvia Eder (born 24 August 1965) is a former

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Biography

Born in

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, she won her first downhill race at

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in 1982 at the age of 17. The downhill remained her specialty discipline throughout her early career. She later developed an interest in the slalom, at which she won the world championship in 1985 in

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and the silver medal, after

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, at the World Cup in 1987. Later Eder focused on the

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and the

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, the latter becoming her main discipline. In 1993 she won a silver medal at the

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. Nearly 13 years after her first World Cup victory, in December 1994 she once again celebrated a success, winning the super-G at

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before her team colleague Veronika Wallinger. The alpine skier

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is her younger sister.

World Cup victories

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eder, Sylvia 1965 births Austrian female alpine skiers Living people Olympic alpine skiers for Austria Alpine skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1988 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1992 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Olympics 20th-century Austrian sportswomen 21st-century Austrian women