Daniel Yule
Daniel Yule 
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| birthday | 18th February 1993 (age 27) | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Martigny , Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||
| size | 187 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 87 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | slalom | ||||||||||||||||||
| society | SC Champex Ferret | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||
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Daniel Yule (born February 18, 1993 in Martigny ) is a Swiss ski racer . He specializes in the slalom discipline. He has celebrated his greatest successes so far in the team competition , with the 2018 Olympic victory and the 2019 world championship title. He is also the first Swiss ever to have won more than two World Cup slaloms.
biography
Origin and youth
Yule is of British descent: his English father and Scottish mother settled in Branche-d'en Haut, a small village in Val Ferret south of Orsières in the French-speaking part of the canton of Valais . There he grew up with an older brother and a younger sister. He contested his first race at the age of five. In 2008 he won three Swiss and two British youth championship titles. In order to be able to be included in the Swiss-Ski junior squad, he was naturalized ; he also gave up playing football. He attended high school in Saint-Maurice and graduated in 2012 with the Matura .
As a member of the National Training Center West, Yule took part in FIS races and junior races from December 2008 . A specialization in the technical disciplines became apparent early on, as he hardly ever competed in Super-G races and downhill runs . His first appearance in the European Cup was in January 2011. A month later, he won his first FIS race, a slalom in Val-d'Isère . In the points of the European Cup he drove for the first time on January 16, 2012 in the slalom of Méribel . Six days later, his was followed by World Cup debut at the Hahnenkamm slalom of Kitzbuhel , but he was eliminated in the first run. At the end of January he won the Swiss Slalom Junior Championship. Supported by his coaches Didier Plaschy and Steve Locher , he gradually established himself in the European Cup in the 2012/13 season and achieved two ninth places as the best results; in addition, he was able to defend his Swiss slalom title among the juniors.
Approaching the world's best
On December 4, 2013, Yule succeeded in the slalom of Vemdalen, the first victory in a European Cup race. He won his first World Cup points on January 6, 2014 with 17th place in the slalom in Bormio . At the slalom in Kitzbühel on January 24th he achieved his first top result in the World Cup when he improved from 30th to seventh place with the fastest time in the second run. After he was eliminated in the second round of slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics - after finishing 12th in the first run - he won the slalom bronze medal at the 2014 Junior World Championship . In the European Cup he won the slalom discipline in the 2013/14 season . In the 2014/15 World Cup season, he was classified as tenth three times.
Yule reached a new career high on January 6, 2016 with sixth place in the slalom of Santa Caterina . At the season finale in St. Moritz on March 20, 2016, after a courageous first run, he was one hundredth of a second ahead of Marco Schwarz in the lead, but did not make the second run flawlessly and fell back to eleventh place ( André won the race Myhrer ). Nevertheless, the 2015/16 season was his most successful to date, as he finished 50th in the overall World Cup and 13th in the Slalom World Cup. He was also a member of the victorious Swiss team that won the team competition against Germany on March 18, 2016 .
Olympic and world champions
In the 2016/17 World Cup season , Yule finished in the top ten six times, with fourth place in the Zagreb slalom on January 5, 2017 being his best result. The 2017 World Championship in St. Moritz was disappointing , where he was eliminated in the second round of the slalom and just missed a medal in fourth place in the team competition. In the World Cup Winter 2017/18 followed by six other top 10 finishes. On January 21, 2018, he made it onto the podium in a World Cup race for the first time as third in the Kitzbühel slalom . Two days later he also finished the Schladming night slalom in third place. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he won the gold medal in the team competition held for the first time with the Swiss team (together with Wendy Holdener , Denise Feierabend , Luca Aerni and Ramon Zenhäusern ) on February 24, and finished eighth in the slalom.
After two top 10 placements at the beginning of the 2018/19 World Cup season , Yule won his first World Cup victory in the Madonna di Campiglio slalom on December 22, 2018 , ending an eleven-year lull for the Swiss slalom team; the last Swiss slalom World Cup winner before him was Marc Gini on November 11, 2007 on the Reiteralm . As the winter progressed, he was always among the top ten with one exception, including two thirds. At the 2019 World Championships in Åre , Yule won another gold medal in the team competition (together with Aline Danioth , Wendy Holdener, Ramon Zenhäusern, Andrea Ellenberger and Sandro Simonet ), but he was eliminated in the first run of the slalom.
In the 2019/20 season, Yule finally established itself at the top of the world's slalom riders . At the beginning he classified himself as third on November 24, 2019 in Levi . On January 8, 2020, he repeated his previous year's success in Madonna di Campiglio. Four days later, he also won the slalom at Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden , which was historically significant in two respects: Most recently, in 2007, Marc Berthod was the last Swiss man on the podium, and Yule was also the first Swiss ski racer with more than two slalom World Cup victories. He had previously shared the record of two victories with Dumeng Giovanoli , Pirmin Zurbriggen and his former coach Didier Plaschy. Two weeks later, on January 26th in Kitzbühel, he secured his fourth World Cup victory; it was also the first Swiss slalom victory on the Ganslernhang after 52 years.
Private
Yule studied economics at a British distance learning university , which he successfully completed in 2019. In February of the same year he sharply criticized FIS President Gian Franco Kasper after he had questioned climate change in an interview . Yule then donated half of the prize money from two races to an environmental organization. He has been the athletes spokesman since June 2019.
successes
Olympic games
- Pyeongchang 2018 : 1st team competition, 8th slalom
World championships
- St. Moritz 2017 : 4th team competition
- Åre 2019 : 1st team competition
World cup
- 10 podium places in individual races, including 4 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| 22nd December 2018 | Madonna di Campiglio | Italy | slalom |
| January 8, 2020 | Madonna di Campiglio | Italy | slalom |
| January 12, 2020 | Adelboden | Switzerland | slalom |
| January 26, 2020 | Kitzbühel | Austria | slalom |
- 2 wins in team competitions
World Cup ratings
| season | total | slalom | ||
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| space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2013/14 | 88 | 50 | 30th | 50 |
| 2014/15 | 51. | 153 | 16. | 153 |
| 2015/16 | 50. | 201 | 13. | 201 |
| 2016/17 | 34. | 259 | 11. | 259 |
| 2017/18 | 22nd | 370 | 5. | 370 |
| 2018/19 | 11. | 551 | 3. | 551 |
| 2019/20 | 13. | 495 | 3. | 495 |
European Cup
- 2013/14 season : 10th overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking
- Season 2014/15 : 4th slalom ranking
- 8 podium places, including 4 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| 4th December 2013 | Vemdalen | Sweden | slalom |
| 2nd January 2015 | Chamonix | France | slalom |
| January 3, 2015 | Chamonix | France | slalom |
| 15th December 2016 | Fassa Valley | Italy | slalom |
Junior World Championships
- Roccaraso 2012 : 20th Super-G
- Jasná 2014 : 3rd slalom
More Achievements
- 12 victories in FIS races
- 2 Swiss junior championship titles (slalom 2012 and 2013)
Web links
- Daniel Yule's website (French)
- Daniel Yule in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Daniel Yule in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Marcel W. Perren: "I've already achieved more than previous coaches thought I would." Interview in: Blick.ch from January 13, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daniel Yule is not just a ski racer. Bote der Urschweiz , November 22, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Petite notice biographique. Fans Club Daniel Yule, 2013, accessed January 7, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Heartbeat finals in St. Moritz: Yule from 1 to 11. Swiss radio and television , March 20, 2016, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Gold in the team event: The Swiss Alps cannot be stopped. Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen , February 24, 2018, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Daniel Yule wins sensationally and ends an eleven year old Swiss slalom slump. watson.ch , December 22, 2018, accessed on December 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Gold for the team around Holdener and Zenhäusern: A boost for the technicians. Luzerner Zeitung , February 12, 2019, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
- ^ Mathias Kainz: Daniel Yule celebrates an Adelboden victory for the history books. Nau , January 12, 2020, accessed January 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Remo Geisser: Daniel Yule conquers the Ganslernhang. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Marco Oppliger: This is how Adelboden's ski hero ticks. 20 minutes, January 14, 2020, accessed January 14, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Yule, Daniel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1993 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Martigny |