Lizzy Yarnold

Elizabeth Yarnold
OBE
Yarnold in 2017
Personal information
Full nameElizabeth Anne Yarnold
Nickname(s)
She-Ra, OC
Nationality Great Britain
Born (1988-10-31) 31 October 1988
Sevenoaks, Kent, England
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Sport
SportSkeleton
Coached byEric Bernotas
Medal record
Olympic Games
2014 Sochi Women
2018 Pyeongchang Women
World Championships
2015 Winterberg Women
2012 Lake Placid Women
2017 Königssee Women
World Cup
2013–2014 Women
2014–2015 Women
European Championships
2015 Igls Women

Elizabeth Anne Yarnold (born 31 October 1988) is a British former skeleton racer. She won consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, making her the first British Winter Olympian to win two gold medals.

Yarnold won the 2013–14 Skeleton World Cup, followed by a gold medal in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. The following year, she triumphed at both the World and European Championships to complete the grand slam of major titles in the sport. She successfully defended her Olympic title at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, setting a new track record as she became the first person to defend an Olympic title in skeleton. Yarnold was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours, and Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours.

Early life and education

Elizabeth Anne Yarnold was born on 31 October 1988 in Sevenoaks, Kent.[1] She has two sisters.[2] She grew up on a farm,[3] and was educated at St Michael's Preparatory School in Otford, Kent,[4] and Maidstone Grammar School for Girls.[5] She then studied Geography, Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Gloucestershire.[6]

During her childhood, Yarnold competed as a heptathlete, having taken inspiration from watching Denise Lewis at the 2000 Summer Olympics.[7] In 2015, she named Lewis as her sporting idol.[8] Yarnold reached 54th in the national shot-put rankings but did not make a career from athletics.[9]

Career

Introduction to skeleton

In 2008, Yarnold took part in UK Sport's Girls4Gold talent search scheme,[10][11] where they identified skeleton as an option for her. She had hoped to be picked for the modern pentathlon.[12] She was initially invited to a test session at Loughborough before being selected to attend a subsequent camp at the University of Bath. Yarnold and nine other athletes were then selected to attend a camp in Lillehammer. She later admitted that she was "petrified" of doing her second skeleton run in Lillehammer after completing her first. She then began training in Bath alongside Amy Williams who won a gold medal in the skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics.[12][10] In 2009, Yarnold took a summer job at an insurance firm in London where an underwriter showed an interest in her ambitions and offered to help fund her. She began competing in October 2010, and the following month, claimed two victories in the second-tier Europa Cup. In 2011, she finished runner-up at the World Junior Championships.[12]

Yarnold's sled is named Mervyn after the underwriter who helped fund her at the beginning of her career.[13] She was given the nickname She-Ra by her teammates, after a cartoon character known as the Princess of Power.[14]

2011/2012 and 2012/13 seasons

In January 2012, Yarnold claimed victory at the World Cup event in St. Moritz in her second appearance in a World Cup event.[15] She followed this up by winning the final leg of the 2011–12 series in Calgary,[16] and securing victory at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Innsbruck. Yarnold was still working full-time for an insurance company in the off-season and revealed that she needed a good performance at the forthcoming senior World Championships to achieve extra funding.[17] At the senior World Championships, she finished third to earn the bronze medal.[18]

In the 2012–13 World Cup meeting in Park City, she won the silver medal,[19] before securing a bronze medal at a subsequent event in the competition at Whistler.[20] At the 2013 World Championships, she finished in fourth position,[21] and she concluded the season at ninth position in the world rankings.[22]

2013/14 season: Olympic champion

Yarnold won the opening race of the 2013–14 World Cup in Calgary after her rival Noelle Pikus-Pace was disqualified for having an illegal piece of tape on her sled. Yarnold had initially finished second but was promoted to first by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation following a post-race inspection.[23] She then won silver and bronze medals respectively at subsequent meetings of the competition in Park City and Lake Placid which were both won by Pikus-Pace.[24][25] Yarnold won a second meeting held in Lake Placid, before securing another victory in Winterberg.[26][27] She also finished on the podium at St. Moritz after finishing runner-up to Pikus-Pace.[28] Yarnold was victorious at the next meeting in Igls,[29] before securing overall World Cup victory at the last race of the season with a ninth-place finish in Königssee. It was the first time in eight World Cup events that she missed out on a top-3 finish but she finished the series 152 points clear of second-placed Pikus-Pace.[30]

Yarnold then won the Olympic gold medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, finishing 0.97 seconds clear of Pikus-Pace. She set the fastest time on each of the four runs and set new track records on her first and third runs. Yarnold's gold was the tenth gold medal achieved by a British athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics. Her victory also meant that Great Britain retained the women's skeleton title following Amy Williams success in 2010. A "chuffed" Yarnold declared: "My fourth run I was totally relaxed and enjoyed it. It was a bit of a messy one but I'm just so thrilled I got myself here after five years hard work."[2][7] Her teammates then gave her the new nickname, OC — Olympic Champion.[31] Yarnold was then chosen to be flag bearer for Great Britain at the Games' closing ceremony.[32] At the end of the year, she was nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.[13]

2014/15 season: World and European Championship victories

In 2014, Eric Bernotas was appointed as the Lead Coach of British Skeleton.[33] In December, Yarnold won a gold medal at the season-opening World Cup meeting in Lake Placid; her first competitive appearance since becoming Olympic champion.[34] A few days later, she was forced to withdraw from the next World Cup event in Calgary after experiencing dizziness,[35] but returned the following month, to secure a silver medal in Altenberg.[36] She then claimed victory at Königssee to move into fifth position in the overall World Cup standings.[37] Yarnold claimed her third and fourth victories of the World Cup season at the meetings in Igls[38] and Sochi; the victory at Sochi was achieved on the same track that she had won her Olympic gold on a year earlier. She finished the World Cup in second position overall, losing out to Janine Flock in the standings by 20 points.[39]

Following her gold medal in the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2013–14 World Cup success, Yarnold completed a career grand slam in the 2014/15 season with victories in both the European and World Championships. Competing at Igls, she became European champion for the first time in February 2015. She beat Janine Flock into second place, with her success coming one day after her World Cup win on the same track. After the race, Yarnold revealed: "Being European champion was a huge goal of mine. I desperately wanted to add that crown."[40] The following month, she won her maiden World Championship, breaking the track record at Winterberg twice in the course of her victory.[41] She won the event by a margin of 0.67 seconds from Jacqueline Lölling, and afterwards, Yarnold proclaimed: "I can't quite take it all in. It's all I ever wanted."[21]

In September 2015, Yarnold announced that she would take a year-long break and miss the 2015/16 skeleton season due to burnout. Describing herself as "emotionally fatigued", she explained that it was "the right time to refresh, take stock and come back even more motivated for the future".[42]

2016/17 season: Return to the sport

After missing a year of competition, Yarnold finished fourth on her return at the 2016–17 World Cup event at Whistler in December 2016.[43] Two weeks later, she won a silver medal in the meeting at Lake Placid to take the lead at the top of the overall standings.[44] This was her only podium finish during the World Cup series,[45] and she finished the competition in ninth position overall.[46] In the World Championships held at Königssee in February 2017, Yarnold won the bronze medal. Reflecting on the result, she stated: "This is where I want and need to be - and is a major stepping stone."[45]

2017/18 season: Second Olympic title

Having suffered from dizzy spells for several years, in September 2017, Yarnold disclosed that she had been diagnosed with a vestibular disorder which affects the inner ear. She explained that the condition sometimes leaves her disorientated while racing but was not career threatening.[47] In the opening event of the 2017–18 World Cup in Lake Placid, she claimed the bronze medal.[48] Her form then dipped as she recorded finishes of 23rd, 13th, 16th and 19th at subsequent World Cup events.[49][50] At the series ending event in Königssee, Yarnold's final race before the forthcoming Olympics, she finished in fourth place and declared that she was "super happy" with her result. She finished the World Cup in overall ninth place.[51] Yarnold was then chosen to be the flag bearer for Great Britain at the opening ceremony for the 2018 Winter Olympics.[52]

She arrived at the Games in Pyeongchang suffering from several health concerns. These included a chest infection, which worsened to the point that she was having trouble speaking and breathing, and on the first day of competition she suffered from dizziness due to a flare-up of her vestibular condition.[53] In the women's skeleton, Yarnold took the lead with a new track record on the first run, but her medical issues left her on the verge of pulling out of the competition. She then fell to third place overall after the second run, one tenth of a second behind overnight leader Jacqueline Lölling. Her health improved for the second day, and she subsequently moved up to second after the third run, two hundredths of a second behind new leader Janine Flock.[54][55] On the final run, she set another track record to win the gold medal by 0.45 seconds.[14][56]

She became the first British Winter Olympian to win two gold medals, and the first skeleton competitor to defend their Olympic title.[57] She admitted after her victory that she had had self-doubts about whether she could get back to where she wanted to be, adding: "Honestly, after the last few years the aim was to get to the Olympics, I wasn't thinking about medals."[14] Her teammate Laura Deas finished in third position; this marked the first time that Great Britain had ever won two medals in the same event in the history of the Winter Olympics.[58] At the end of 2018, she was nominated for BBC Sports Personality of the Year.[59]

Post-Pyeongchang activities and retirement

Just weeks after the conclusion of the 2018 Winter Olympics, Yarnold underwent surgery to remove a tumour in her knee which had been discovered six months before the Games. Following this, her use of crutches worsened the back pain that she had suffered for several years; this was diagnosed as being the result of two displaced discs. She was left struggling to sit, unable to drive and was prescribed powerful painkillers for several months.[53] She subsequently underwent a successful operation on her back in July 2018.[31]

In September 2018, Yarnold stated that she was planning to return to training,[60] but the following month she announced her retirement from the sport. She said that she had lived the dream and desired a fresh challenge.[31] She ended her career as the only British Winter Olympian to have won two gold medals.[61] After retiring, she began mentoring young athletes and working for the British Olympic Association's athlete commission.[31]

Personal life

After taking up skeleton, Yarnold lived in Bath, Somerset, in a flat owned by former skeleton athlete and Olympic gold medallist, Amy Williams.[13]

On 1 May 2016, Yarnold married her partner, who worked as a sled designer for the British team.[62][63] In 2023, the couple announced that they were expecting a third child.[64] In her spare time she enjoys knitting.[65][66]

Honours

After winning her first Olympic gold medal in 2014, Yarnold was given an open-top bus parade through her hometown of Sevenoaks, Kent in her honour.[67] She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to skeleton racing.[68][69] Also that year, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Canterbury Christ Church University.[70] In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE),[71] and later that year, she was made an honorary doctorate in science by the University of Kent.[72]

Career Victories

Winter Olympics

Year Event Location Runner-up Margin Ref
2014 Winter Olympics Sochi Noelle Pikus-Pace 0.97 [7]
2018 Winter Olympics Pyeongchang Jacqueline Lölling 0.45 [14]

World Championships

Year Event Location Runner-up Margin Ref
2015 World Championships Winterberg Jacqueline Lölling 0.67 [21]

European Championships

Year Event Location Runner-up Margin Ref
2015 European Championships Igls Janine Flock 0.3 [73]

World Cup overall

Year Event Location Runner-up Margin Ref
2013–14 World Cup Various Noelle Pikus-Pace 152 points [30]

World Cup races

No. Season Round Date Location Margin Runner-up Ref
1 2011–12 6 20 January 2012 St. Moritz, Switzerland 0.25 Shelley Rudman [15]
2 8 10 February 2012 Calgary, Canada 0.54 Anja Huber [16]
3 2013–14 1 30 November 2013 Calgary, Canada 0.24 Elena Nikitina [74]
4 4 15 December 2013 Lake Placid, USA 0.34 Janine Flock [26]
5 5 4 January 2014 Winterberg, Germany 0.57 Noelle Pikus-Pace [27]
6 7 18 January 2014 Igls, Austria 0.32 Noelle Pikus-Pace [29]
7 2014–15 1 13 December 2014 Lake Placid, USA 0.77 Elisabeth Vathje [34]
8 4 16 January 2015 Königssee, Germany 0.71 Anja Huber [37]
9 6 7 February 2015 Igls, Austria 0.18 Elisabeth Vathje [38]
10 7 8 February 2015 Igls, Austria 0.30 Janine Flock [73]
11 8 14 February 2015 Sochi, Russia 0.04 Maria Orlova [39]

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