Daniel Yule
Yule at Zagreb in January 2015
Personal information
Born (1993-02-18) 18 February 1993
Martigny, Valais,
Switzerland[1]
OccupationAlpine skier
Height1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Skiing career
DisciplinesSlalom
ClubChampex-Ferret
World Cup debut22 January 2012 (age 18)
Websitedanielyule.com
Olympics
Teams3 – (2014, 2018, 2022)
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams5 – (201523)
Medals1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons12 – (20122023)
Wins6 – (6 SL)
Podiums14 – (14 SL)
Overall titles0 – (11th in 2019)
Discipline titles0 – (2nd in SL, 2019)
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing   Switzerland
World Cup race podiums
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Slalom 6 1 7
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2018 PyeongchangTeam event
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2019 ÅreTeam event
Junior World Ski Championships
Bronze medal – third place2014 JasnáSlalom

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

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom
Super-GDownhillCombinedParallel
2014218830
2015225116
2016235013
201724312116
201825225
201926112
202027133
202128501655
202229246
202330174
2024313511
Standings through 24 December 2023

Race podiums

  • 6 wins – (6 SL)
  • 15 podiums – (15 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 2019Andorra Soldeu, AndorraSlalom3rd
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
2022 16 January 2022  Switzerland  Wengen, Switzerland Slalom 2nd
9 March 2022 Austria Flachau, Austria Slalom 3rd
2023 22 December 2022 Italy Madonna di Campiglio, Italy Slalom 1st
22 January 2023 Austria Kitzbühel, Austria Slalom 1st
4 February 2023 France Chamonix, France Slalom 3rd

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombinedParallelTeam
event
201522DNF1
201724DNF2
201926DNF11
2021 28 5
2023 30 24

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombinedTeam
event
201421DSQ2
20182581
2022296

References

  1. 1 2 Website https://www.danielyule.com/daniel.html (14 January 2019).
  2. "Daniel Yule". Sochi2014. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  3. "Daniel Yule". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  4. 1 2 "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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