Daniel Yule

Yule in 2023
Personal information
Born	(1993-02-18) 18 February 1993 (age 31) Martigny, Valais, Switzerland[1]
Occupation	Alpine skier
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Skiing career
Disciplines	Slalom
Club	Champex-Ferret
World Cup debut	22 January 2012 (age 18)
Website	danielyule.com
Olympics
Teams	3 – (2014–2022)
Medals	1 (1 gold)
World Championships
Teams	5 – (2015–2023)
Medals	1 (1 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	12 – (2012–2023)
Wins	7 – (7 SL)
Podiums	17 – (17 SL)
Overall titles	0 – (11th in 2019)
Discipline titles	0 – (2nd in SL, 2019)
Medal record Men's alpine skiing Representing  Switzerland World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Slalom 7 1 7 Olympic Games 2018 Pyeongchang Team event World Championships 2019 Åre Team event Junior World Ski Championships 2014 Jasná 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.^[1]

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.

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.

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.

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.

During the 2018 season, Yule took his first World Cup podium finishes, taking third at both Kitzbühel and Schladming.^[4]

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]

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.^[5] 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.

Standings through 17 March 2024

• 7 wins – (7 SL)
• 17 podiums – (17 SL); 53 top tens

Season	Date	Location	Discipline	Position
2018	21 January 2018	Kitzbühel, Austria	Slalom	3rd
	23 January 2018	Schladming, Austria	Slalom	3rd
2019	22 December 2018	Madonna di Campiglio, Italy	Slalom	1st
	29 January 2019	Schladming, Austria	Slalom	3rd
	17 March 2019	Soldeu, Andorra	Slalom	3rd
2020	24 November 2019	Levi, Finland	Slalom	3rd
	8 January 2020	Madonna di Campiglio, Italy	Slalom	1st
	11 January 2020	Adelboden, Switzerland	Slalom	1st
	26 January 2020	Kitzbühel, Austria	Slalom	1st
	28 January 2020	Schladming, Austria	Slalom	3rd
2022	16 January 2022	Wengen, Switzerland	Slalom	2nd
	9 March 2022	Flachau, Austria	Slalom	3rd
2023	22 December 2022	Madonna di Campiglio, Italy	Slalom	1st
	22 January 2023	Kitzbühel, Austria	Slalom	1st
	4 February 2023	Chamonix, France	Slalom	3rd
2024	21 January 2024	Kitzbühel, Austria	Slalom	3rd
	4 February 2024	Chamonix, France	Slalom	1st

• Daniel Yule at FIS (alpine)
• Daniel Yule at Olympics.com
• Daniel Yule at Olympedia
• Daniel Yule at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Daniel Yule at the Swiss Olympic Association (in German)
• Daniel Yule at the Swiss Ski Team (archived) (in German)
• Official website (in French)