Torin Yater-Wallace
Torin Yater-Wallace 
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| birthday | 2nd December 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Aspen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Halfpipe, slopestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Torin Yater-Wallace (born December 2, 1995 in Aspen ) is an American freestyle skier . He starts in the disciplines halfpipe and slopestyle .
Career
Yater-Wallace has been participating in FIS and AFP World Tour competitions since 2010 . He had his first international success in January 2011 at the Winter X Games 2011 in Aspen by winning the silver medal in the halfpipe competition. At the following Freestyle Skiing World Championships 2011 in Park City , he finished 13th on the halfpipe. In March 2011 he won the bronze medal at the Winter X Games Europe in Tignes . In the same month he completed his first World Cup in Tignes, which he was able to win. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, he came in second at the US Grand Prix and World Cup in Copper Mountain . In the further course of the season he took third place in the Winter Dew Tour in Snowbasin and first place in Killington . He won the bronze medal on the halfpipe at the Winter X Games 2012 and the gold medal at the Winter X Games Europe 2012 . At the Aspen / Snowmass Open, he took second place in slopestyle. He finished the season in second place in the AFP World Tour overall ranking and the World Cup half pipe ranking and first place in the AFP World Tour half pipe ranking.
At the beginning of the 2012/13 season, Yater-Wallace won the World Cup in Cardrona . This was followed by another victory in Sochi and a second place in Park City in the World Cup . In January 2013 he won the silver medal at the Winter X Games . Two months later he won the silver medal on the halfpipe at the Freestyle Skiing World Championships in Voss and the gold medal at the Winter X Games Europe . At the end of the season he finished second in the Halfpipe World Cup and in the AFP halfpipe rating. In his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014, he reached 26th place in the first ever halfpipe competition. In the 2014/15 season he won the Dew Tour Mountain Championships in Breckenridge and the AFP World Tour Finals in Whistler . At the World Cup in Copper Mountain , he came second in the halfpipe competition and third in Big Air at the Jon Olsson Invitational in Åre . In the 2015/16 season he finished fifth on the halfpipe at the Winter X Games 2016 in Aspen and won the gold medal on the superpipe at the X Games Oslo 2016 in Oslo . In the following season he won the World Cup in Mammoth and Pyeongchang and thus reached 19th place in the overall World Cup and fourth place in the Halfpipe World Cup. At the Winter X Games 2017 , he took sixth place. In January 2018 he won the bronze medal at the Winter X Games and took third place at the World Cup in Mammoth. He finished ninth at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
successes
2010/11 season
- 1st place FIS World Cup in La Plagne , halfpipe
- 2nd place Winter X Games 2011 in Aspen , halfpipe
- 3rd place Winter X Games Europe 2011 in Tignes , halfpipe
2011/12 season
- 1st place Winter X Games Europe 2012 in Tignes , halfpipe
- 1st place Winter Dew Tour in Killington , Halfpipe
- 1st place AFP World Tour halfpipe evaluation
- 2nd place FIS World Cup and US Grand Prix in Copper Mountain , Halfpipe
- 2nd place Aspen / Snowmass Open in Aspen , Slopestyle
- 2nd place AFP World Tour overall ranking
- 2nd place FIS Halfpipe World Cup
- 3rd place Winter X Games 2012 in Aspen , halfpipe
- 3rd place Winter Dew Tour in Snowbasin , halfpipe
2012/13 season
- 1st place FIS World Cup and New Zealand Winter Games in Cardrona , halfpipe
- 1st place FIS World Cup in Sochi , halfpipe
- 1st place Winter X Games Europe 2013 in Tignes , halfpipe
- 2nd place FIS World Cup and US Grand Prix in Park City , halfpipe
- 2nd place Freestyle Skiing World Championships 2013 in Oslo , halfpipe
- 2nd place in the Winter X Games 2013 in Aspen , halfpipe
- 2nd place AFP World Tour halfpipe evaluation
- 2nd place FIS Halfpipe World Cup
2014/15 season
- 1st place Dew Tour Mountain Championships in Breckenridge , Halfpipe
- 1st place AFP World Tour Final in Whistler , halfpipe
- 2nd place FIS World Cup and US Grand Prix in Copper Mountain , Halfpipe
- 3rd place at the Jon Olsson Invitational in Åre , Big Air
2015/16 season
- 1st place X-Games Oslo 2016 in Oslo , halfpipe
Season 2016/17
- 1st place FIS World Cup in Mammoth , halfpipe
- 1st place FIS World Cup in Pyeongchang , halfpipe
Season 2017/18
- 3rd place FIS World Cup in Mammoth , halfpipe
- 3rd place Winter X Games 2018 in Aspen , halfpipe
Web links
- Torin Yater-Wallace in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Torin Yater-Wallace in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile of Torin Yater-Wallace on afpworldtour.com
- Torin Yater-Wallace on usfreeskiing.com
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| SURNAME | Yater-Wallace, Torin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American freestyle skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd December 1995 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aspen |