Daniel Yule
{{short description|Swiss alpine skier}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox alpine ski racer
|name = Daniel Yule
|image = Daniel Yule Grandvalira 2023 SL 2nd run (6).jpg
|image_size = 230
|caption = Yule in 2023
|disciplines = Slalom
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1993|2|18|df=y}}
|birth_place = Martigny, Valais,
Switzerland[https://www.danielyule.com/daniel.html Website https://www.danielyule.com/daniel.html] (14 January 2019).
|height = 1.87 m
|club = Champex-Ferret
|website = [http://www.danielyule.com danielyule.com]
|wcdebut = 22 January 2012 (age 18)
|olympicteams = 3 – (2014–2022)
|olympicmedals = 1
|olympicgolds = 1
|worldsteams = 6 – (2015–2025)
|worldsmedals = 1
|worldsgolds = 1
|wcwins = 7 – (7 SL)
|wcpodiums = 17 – (17 SL)
|wcoveralls = 0 – (11th in 2019)
|wctitles = 0 – (2nd in SL, 2019)
|show-medals = yes
|medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport|Men's alpine skiing}}
{{MedalCountry|{{SUI}}}}
{{MedalCount|total=no|type=World Cup race podiums
| Slalom | 7 | 1 | 7
}}
{{Medal|Competition|Olympic Games}}
{{Medal|Gold|2018 Pyeongchang|Team event}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2019 Åre|Team event}}
{{MedalCompetition|Junior World Ski Championships}}
{{MedalBronze|{{nowrap|2014 Jasná}}|{{nowrap|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.
Racing career
=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.{{cite web |url=http://sochi2014.arch.articul.ru/www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-daniel-yule.htm |title=Daniel Yule |author= |website=Sochi2014 |access-date=13 March 2016 |archive-date=14 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314051629/http://sochi2014.arch.articul.ru/www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-daniel-yule.htm |url-status=dead }} Twelfth after the first run, Yule was disqualified in the second.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/yu/daniel-yule-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418060603/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/yu/daniel-yule-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Daniel Yule |publisher=Sports Reference|accessdate=29 January 2015}} 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.{{cite news |url=https://www.nzz.ch/sport/yule-gewinnt-slalom-in-madonna-di-campiglio-ld.1447186 |title=Yule gewinnt Slalom in Madonna di Campiglio |author= |date=22 December 2018|website=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |language=German|trans-title=Yule wins slalom in Madonna di Campiglio|access-date=23 December 2018}}
=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.
=2024=
In a groundbreaking moment at the World Cup, Daniel Yule achieved a historic victory in the slalom event held in Chamonix. This remarkable triumph marked the first time in World Cup history that an athlete, initially ranking 30th after the initial run, secured a victory in such a competition.{{Cite web|title='Absolutely incredible': Yule skis from last to first in historic triumph|url=https://www.fis-ski.com/en/alpine-skiing/alpine-news-multimedia/news-multimedia/news/season-2023-24/absolutely-incredible-yule-skis-from-last-to-first-in-historic-triumph|access-date=4 February 2024|website=fis-ski.com}} Yule's accomplishment marked a significant milestone, surpassing the prior achievement of Lucas Braathen, who had managed to secure victory in the Wengen slalom event in 2022 after beginning the race from the 29th position following the initial run.
World Cup results
=Season standings=
| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
!Season !! Age !! Overall !! Slalom !! Giant | ||||||||
| 2014 | 21 | 88 | 30 | — | — | — | — | rowspan=6 {{n/a}} |
| 2015 | 22 | 51 | 16 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2016 | 23 | 50 | 13 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2017 | 24 | 31 | 21 | 16 | — | — | — | |
| 2018 | 25 | 22 | 5 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2019 | 26 | 11 | style="background:silver;"|2 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2020 | 27 | 13 | style="background:#c96;"|3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 28 | 50 | 16 | 55 | — | — | rowspan=9 {{n/a}} | — |
| 2022 | 29 | 24 | 6 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2023 | 30 | 17 | 4 | — | — | — | rowspan=7 {{n/a}} | |
| 2024 | 31 | 29 | 7 | — | — | — | ||
| 2025 | 32 | 30 | 14 | — | — | — |
:{{small|Standings through 17 February 2025}}
=Race podiums=
- 7 wins – (7 SL)
- 17 podiums – (17 SL); 56 top tens
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%;"
! Season ! Date ! Location ! Discipline ! Position | |||
| rowspan="2"| 2018
| align=right| 21 January 2018 | style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|AUT}} Kitzbühel, Austria | Slalom | 3rd | |||
| align=right| 23 January 2018
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|AUT}} Schladming, Austria | Slalom | 3rd | |||
| rowspan="3"| 2019
| align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|22 December 2018 | style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|ITA}} Madonna di Campiglio, Italy | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|Slalom | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|1st | |||
| align=right| 29 January 2019
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|AUT}} Schladming, Austria | Slalom | 3rd | |||
| align=right |17 March 2019 | align=left|{{flagicon|AND}} Soldeu, Andorra | Slalom | 3rd |
| rowspan="5"| 2020
| align=right|24 November 2019 | style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|FIN}} Levi, Finland | Slalom | 3rd | |||
| align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|8 January 2020
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|ITA}} Madonna di Campiglio, Italy | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|Slalom | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|1st | |||
| align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|11 January 2020
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|SUI}} Adelboden, Switzerland | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|Slalom | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|1st | |||
| align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|26 January 2020
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|AUT}} Kitzbühel, Austria | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|Slalom | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|1st | |||
| align=right| 28 January 2020
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|AUT}} Schladming, Austria | Slalom | 3rd | |||
| rowspan="2"| 2022
| align=right|16 January 2022 | style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|SUI}} Wengen, Switzerland | Slalom | 2nd | |||
| align=right| 9 March 2022
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|AUT}} Flachau, Austria | Slalom | 3rd | |||
| rowspan="3"| 2023
| align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|22 December 2022 | style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|ITA}} Madonna di Campiglio, Italy | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|Slalom | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|1st | |||
| align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|22 January 2023
| style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|AUT}} Kitzbühel, Austria | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|Slalom | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|1st | |||
| align=right| 4 February 2023
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|FRA}} Chamonix, France | Slalom | 3rd | |||
| rowspan="2"| 2024
| align=right|21 January 2024 | style="text-align:left;"|{{flagicon|AUT}} Kitzbühel, Austria | Slalom | 3rd | |||
| align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|4 February 2024
| style="text-align:left;"| {{flagicon|FRA}} Chamonix, France | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|Slalom | bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|1st |
World Championship results
| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
! Year !! Age !! Slalom !! Giant | |||||||||
| 2015 | 22 | DNF1 | — | — | — | — | rowspan=5 {{n/a}} | rowspan=3 {{n/a}} | — |
| 2017 | 24 | DNF2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2019 | 26 | DNF1 | — | — | — | — | bgcolor=gold|1 | ||
| 2021
|28 |5 |— |— |— |— |— |— | |||||||||
| 2023
|30 |24 |— |— |— |— |— |— | |||||||||
| 2025
|32 |DNF2 |— |— |— |{{n/a}} |DNF2 |{{n/a}} |— |
Olympic results
References
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External links
- {{sports links}}
- {{Ski-DB}}
- [https://www.swissolympicteam.ch/de/olympische-missionen/olympische-spiele/peking-2022/team/athletenportrait?athleteId=8047 Daniel Yule] at the Swiss Olympic Association {{in lang|de}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180125015204/https://www.swiss-ski.ch/ski-alpin/athleten/detail/athlete/daniel-yule/ Daniel Yule at the Swiss Ski Team] (archived) {{in lang|de}}
- {{Official website}} {{in lang|fr}}
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