Ulbing started in Schönberg-Lachtal for the first time in the European Cup in December 2013 and finished 27th and 24th in the parallel slalom. In 2014, the 16-year-old made the leap into the ÖSV junior squad. In the 2014/15 season she came on the podium six times, including three wins and thus won the parallel overall ranking in the European Cup. She made her debut in the Snowboard World Cup in January 2015 in Bad Gastein and achieved 36th place in the parallel slalom. In January 2016 she came in tenth place in the parallel slalom in Moscow for the first time in the World Cup in the top ten. After finishing second in the parallel slalom at the beginning of the 2016/17 season in the European Cup in Landgraaf , she achieved her first podium finish in the World Cup in Cortina d'Ampezzo with second place in the parallel slalom .
In January 2017 Ulbing celebrated her first World Cup victory in the home race in the parallel slalom in Bad Gastein and just one day later the then 18-year-old also won her second World Cup victory in the team competition with Benjamin Karl from Lower Austria . In the same month she became Austrian champion in parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom in Hochficht in the Bohemian Forest (alongside Lukas Mathies in the men). At the 2017 Junior World Championships in Klínovec , she won the bronze medal in the parallel slalom and the silver medal in the parallel giant slalom. At the season highlight of the 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada , she prevailed in the final against Czech Ester Ledecká and won gold in the parallel slalom. She finished seventh in the parallel giant slalom. At the end of the season she won the Parallel Slalom World Cup and finished eighth in the Parallel World Cup.
The Carinthian was nominated for a starting place at the Olympic Winter Games in February 2018 , as the Carinthian Sabine Schöffmann had to cancel at the end of January after a fall due to an injury. In the parallel giant slalom, she made it to the quarter-finals on February 24 and finished in seventh place. In March 2018 she was third in the parallel giant slalom in Kayseri and at the end of the season she finished ninth in the parallel world cup and fourth in the parallel slalom world cup. At the 2018 Junior World Championships in Cardrona , she won the gold medal in the parallel slalom. In the 2018/19 season she won three team competitions and at the end of the season she took ninth place in the parallel slalom World Cup. At the 2019 World Championships in Park City , she finished 32nd in the parallel giant slalom and tenth in the parallel slalom. At the end of March 2019 she became Austrian champion in the parallel giant slalom in Radstadt . In the 2019/20 season she achieved seven top ten placements, including third place in the parallel giant slalom in Blue Mountain , tenth place in the parallel giant slalom world cup and fifth place in both the parallel world cup and parallel slalom world cup.
In 50 individual World Cup races, Ulbing has so far achieved 19 top ten placements (as of the end of the 2019/20 season).
Daniela Ulbing visits the Sport-BORG in Spittal an der Drau ("Sportgymnasium Spittal").
↑ After fracture of the fibula: Olympia-Aus for snowboarder Schöffmann . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . January 29, 2018 ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed February 1, 2018]).