Daniel Yule

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Daniel Yule
Alpine skier
Daniel Yule.jpg
Yule at Zagreb in January 2015
DisciplinesSlalom
ClubChampex-Ferret
Born (1993-02-18) 18 February 1993 (age 28)
Martigny, Valais,
Switzerland[1]
Height1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
World Cup debut22 January 2012 (age 18)
Websitedanielyule.com
Olympics
Teams2 – (2014, 2018)
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams3 – (2015–19)
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons8 – (2014–2021)
Wins4 – (4 SL)
Podiums10 – (10 SL)
Overall titles0 – (11th in 2019)
Discipline titles0 – (2nd in SL, 2019)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing   Switzerland
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Pyeongchang Team event
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Åre Team event
Junior World Ski Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Jasná Slalom

Daniel Yule (born 18 February 1993) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in slalom. Born in Martigny, Valais, he is of Scottish parentage.[1]

Racing career[]

Yule rose quickly to make his World Cup debut in the 2012 season in Kitzbühel at the age of 18, he had achieved his first points at the European Cup level just a month earlier. Having had a year of solid results in the European Cup in 2013, he became a World Cup regular for the 2014 season.

2014[]

After earning his first European Cup victory in the early 2014 season, Yule achieved his first World Cup points in the third slalom of the year, a race that was moved to Bormio, where he took 17 place. The breakthrough result came on the same piste on which he had made his World Cup debut. With a start number of 41, Yule finished 30th after the first run, meaning he was the last person to qualify for a second. In that second run, Yule took 4 tenths of a second out of the rest of the field, which catapulted him up the order to eventual 7th position. This result was enough to earn him a place on the Swiss Olympic Team in Sochi, where he competed in the slalom.[2] Twelfth after the first run, Yule was disqualified in the second.[3] After the Olympics, Yule went to his first Junior World Championships, where he earned a Bronze Medal in the slalom.

2015[]

The 2015 season was to be the first which Yule concentrated on the World Cup, although Yule did claim back-to-back victories in the two European Cup slaloms in Chamonix. He was able to find consistency in his skiing at the World Cup level, achieving points in 7 of the first 8 races of the season. Yule finished tenth three times; in Levi, Zagreb, and Schladming. and with those results, he fulfilled the selection criteria for the World Championships. His run in the slalom at the Championships ended very quickly, as he skied out of the course after only three gates. Yule's season results were enough to qualify for the World Cup Finals for the first time, and he finished the slalom tour in 16th as highest ranked Swiss in the discipline.

2016[]

Yule began the year promisingly with a ninth place in the first slalom of the season in Val-d'Isère after the season opener in Levi was cancelled.

2018[]

During the 2018 season, Yule took his first World Cup podium finishes, taking third at both Kitzbühel and Schladming.[4]

2019[]

Yule started his 2019 season with a fifth place in Levi and a sixth in Saalbach-Hinterglemm. He earned his first win on the World Cup circuit in the Madonna di Campiglio night slalom after finishing fourth in the first run. He benefited from both Marcel Hirscher and Henrik Kristoffersen straddling. Yule's victory was the first World Cup slalom win for a Swiss male skier since Marc Gini's first place in Reiteralm in November 2007.[4]

World Cup results[]

Season standings[]

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2014 21 88 30 — — — —
2015 22 51 16 — — — —
2016 23 50 13 — — — —
2017 24 34 11 — — — —
2018 25 22 5 — — — —
2019 26 11 2 — — — —
2020 27 13 3 — — — —
2021 28 40 14 49 — — —
Standings through 17 January 2021

Race podiums[]

  • 4 wins – (4 SL)
  • 10 podiums – (10 SL);
Season Date Location Discipline Position
2018 21 January 2018 Austria Kitzbühel, Austria Slalom 3rd
23 January 2018 Austria Schladming, Austria Slalom 3rd
2019 22 December 2018 Italy Madonna di Campiglio, Italy Slalom 1st
29 January 2019 Austria Schladming, Austria Slalom 3rd
17 March 2019 Andorra Soldeu, Andorra Slalom 3rd
2020 24 November 2019 Finland Levi, Finland Slalom 3rd
8 January 2020 Italy Madonna di Campiglio, Italy Slalom 1st
11 January 2020  Switzerland  Adelboden, Switzerland Slalom 1st
26 January 2020 Austria Kitzbühel, Austria Slalom 1st
28 January 2020 Austria Schladming, Austria Slalom 3rd

World Championship results[]

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 		 Super-G Downhill Combined
2015 22 DNF1 — — — —
2017 24 DNF2 — — — —
2019 26 DNF1 — — — —
2021 28 5 — — — —

Olympic results[]

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 slalom 		 Super-G Downhill Combined Team
event
2014 21 DSQ2 — — — — N/A
2018 25 8 — — — — 1

References[]

  1. ^ a b Website https://www.danielyule.com/daniel.html (14 January 2019).
  2. ^ "Daniel Yule". Sochi2014. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Daniel Yule". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Yule gewinnt Slalom in Madonna di Campiglio" [Yule wins slalom in Madonna di Campiglio]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 22 December 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.

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