Johannes Eder (born 19 October 1979) is an

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who competed between 1998 and 2007. Eder has five individual career victories up to 30 km (four in Continental Cup, one in an FIS race) from 2001 to 2004. In 2006, he was disqualified for

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violations in the last two races he entered for the 2005-06 racing season, but was reinstated in time to compete in the

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in Sapporo. On 22 November 2007, the

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announced that Eder along with two other cross country skiers from Austria (Roland Diethard and Martin Tauber), received two-year bans for doping incurred. All results from the incursion that was caught on 18 February 2006 during the 2006 Winter Olympics in

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for Eder and the two other skiers to the date of the suspension issued were disqualified and any awards earned were forfeited. Seven months earlier, Eder received a lifetime ban from the

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for his doping actions in Turin.

Cross-country skiing results

Olympic Games

World Championships

World Cup

References

FIS announcement on 22 November 2007 about doping violations during the 2006 Winter Olympics
- accessed 29 November 2007.
TSN.ca announcement of Eder's ban.

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eder, Johannes 1979 births Austrian male cross-country skiers Austrian sportspeople in doping cases Cross-country skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics Doping cases in cross-country skiing Living people Olympic cross-country skiers of Austria Universiade medalists in cross-country skiing Universiade bronze medalists for Austria Competitors at the 2001 Winter Universiade 20th-century Austrian people