Glen Eberle (born May 6, 1963) is an American

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and shooting sports, rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into sh ...

. He competed in the 20 km individual event at the

1984 Winter Olympics The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр ...

. In the late 1980s he became known for his lightweight

biathlon rifle A Biathlon rifle is a specialized rifle designed for use in a biathlon event. Specialist biathlon rifles are ultra lightweight, and usually equipped with straight-pull actions, integrated magazine carriers, and ergonomic stock designs suitable fo ...

stock designs, which played a substantial part in setting the current rifle equipment weight limit of 3.5 kg for competitions in the

International Biathlon Union The International Biathlon Union (IBU; german: Internationale Biathlon-Union) is the international governing body of biathlon. Its headquarters were in Salzburg, Austria, until May 2020, when the Federation moved to Anif, on the outskirts of the ...

. He then joined the military and started a compnay making top notvh out door equipment.

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1963 births Living people American male biathletes Olympic biathletes of the United States Biathletes at the 1984 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Bellevue, Washington {{US-biathlon-bio-stub