Biography
The German biathlete of Eric Leester has never been a number of sports stars of the first magnitude, while over the years has demonstrated high results. The athlete's account has Olympic medals, victories at world championships and Europe, as well as cup podiums.Childhood and youth
Eric was born on May 17, 1988 in the city of Zul, located in the center of Germany. Love for winter sports got the boy inherited from his grandfather. Axel Lesser in the 1960s and 1970s represented Eastern Germany at international skiing competitions and even won the silver medal of the World Championships in 1970.
Inspired by the example of his grandfather, Eric got on skis at 6 years of age, and 5 years later retrained in biathlete. Since 1999, he began to regularly train, as a platform for the development by choosing Oberhof Sports School. A number of coaches were preparing athlete, including Mark Kirchner and Peter Zenndel.
Lesser sports biography began at the SV Eintracht Frankenhain Club. For the first time in international races, the biathlonist participated in 2006 as part of the European Cup among juniors in Obertilliam, where he took the 6th place in the persecution race. A year later, he finished the second in the individual race and, thus, for the first time climbed into the podium. He has repeatedly occupied the pedestal of the Junior Cup of Europe, but it was not possible to defeat him.
The youth world championships have been more successful. In 2009, in Canmona, the German won the bronze medal in the personal competition and won the gold in the relay together with the comrades in the German national team: Simon Shempp, Benedict Dol, and Florian Count. The World Summer Biathlon Championship, which in the same year passed in his native to Lesser Oberhof, brought him 2 gold medals.
Successful speeches opened Erica's way into an adult biathlon where the first starts took place within the IBU Cup. Appearing under the curtain of the 2008/2009 season in Italian Ridnau, the German did not leave the opponents of the chance and won the 3 races at once. It became clear that Lessher was ripe to compile a competition to the strongest planet shooting skiers.
Biathlon
Lesser debut at the World Cup took place in 2010. Then the German distinguished himself in a mixed relay, taking silver in the company Kati Wilhelm, Magdalena Neuner and Simon Shempt. Personal results were much less impressive. The first podium of the World Cup took place in Swedish Ostersund in 2013. By the time Eric already ceased to be invisible and showed high speed with not always stable shooting.In the same year, in the World Championships in Novaya Place, Lesser proved that he is a reliable team fighter, and helped the German national team take the bronze classical relay. A distinctive feature of the German was the alternation of victories and failures. He managed to clean the race, and the next day - as if nothing had happened - to go out and win. This Eric argued that he knows how to "deoxinate" after failures.
At the Olympics in Sochi 2014, Lesser was not originally part of the favorites. Competition was much more masty and confident biathletes like a dominant not one season Marten Fourcade and Emil Hegel Svendsen. Yes, and in the German national team, Eric was not a leader, but only he mined a personal medal for the country. She became silver individual racing. Later, the second place was added to him in the men's relay.
A year later on the championship of the world in Kontiolahti, Leester first became a champion. After the 5th place in the sprint, he won the pursuit race, acute without a single mishah. Anton Schipulin with one mischievous gave the German 17 seconds and became second. Then Eric secured success, taking one more gold, this time in the relay.
The following seasons were less successful, although Lessher continued to collect the medals of the world championships from time to time and to travel for cup podiums. His places in the overall standings of the World Cup over the past seasons were held around the first tens.
Personal life
The biathlonist leads a page in "Instagram", but the details of personal life are more common abroad. Lesser prefers to post photos from skiing and training, although, becoming a father, did not fail to publish a shot with a carriage. In January 2019, Erica was born daughter Anuk. The mother of the child became Nadin Neumber, with which the German with the 2010th.
The girl is far from the world of sports. Now she is engaged in its own business and since 2016 creates design lamps. However, for the beloved, he always worries hard, supporting him on the highway and during training. They live together as one family for a long time, although Eric did not want to do Nadine official wife. He even stuck out of journalists with the words:
"Even our president is not married - and still president."In addition to the common child, a couple have a dog breed Dalmatian. And they are united by hobbies - computer games that they devote weekends. Joint holidays they prefer to spend on departures to neighboring countries where they indulgence. At the same time, Lessher does not leave training, supporting the form: when 171 cm height, it weighs 70 kg.
Eric Leester now
While his peers are already leaving a lot of sports, Eric continues to engage in a loved one, constantly finding a new motivation. He was already able to write off from accounts, when in February 2020 at the World Championships in the Italian Antholz, he suddenly drove on the podium twice. The first award went to the single mixer, where a pair with the Francisian Passion took a silver, giving way only to the Norwegians. The second medal was bronze dignity, her lame was received for participating in the classic relay.In the season 2020/2021, Eric continued to represent the German national team at the World Cup stages. While the best result was 3rd place in the individual race, occupied at the first stage in Finnish Contiolachti. In January 2021, German held the 11th line in the overall World Cup.
Achievements
- 2010 - Silver medalist of the European Championship in the Pursuit Racing
- 2010 - Winner of the European Championship in the relay
- 2011 - Winner of the European Championship in the relay
- 2012 - Winner of the European Championship in the relay
- 2012 - Silver medalist of the European Championship in the individual race
- 2013 - Bronze medalist of the world championship in the relay
- 2014 - Silver Prize winner of the Olympic Games in the individual race
- 2014 - Silver medalist of the Olympic Games in the relay
- 2015 - winner of the world championship in the relay
- 2015 - Winner of the World Championship in the Pursuit Racing
- 2016 - Silver winner of the world championship in the relay
- 2018 - Bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in the relay
- 2018 - Silver winner of the world championship among the military in the race of patrols
- 2019 - Silver winner of the world championship in the relay
- 2020 - Bronze medalist of the world championship in the relay
- 2020 - Silver winner of the World Cup in Single Mix