Gracie Gold

Gracie Gold

Personal information
Full name Grace Elizabeth Gold[1]
Country represented United States
Born (1995-08-17) August 17, 1995
Newton, Massachusetts
Home town Redondo Beach, California[2][3]
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[4]
Coach Frank Carroll
Former coach Alexander Ouriashev, Toni Hickey, Susan Liss, Amy Vorhaben, Alexia Griffin
Choreographer Lori Nichol
Former choreographer Marina Zueva, Pasquale Camerlengo, Scott Brown, Oleg Epstein
Training locations El Segundo, California
Former training locations Crystal Lake, Illinois Springfield, Illinois Springfield, Missouri[5]
Began skating 2003
World standing 6 (2015–16) 4 (As of 26 April 2015)[6]
Season's bests 6 (2015–16)
3 (2014–15)
6 (2013–14)[7]
9 (2012–13)[8]
12 (2011–12)[9]
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 211.29
2016 Worlds
Short program 76.43
2016 Worlds
Free skate 137.41
2015 Skate America
Medal record
Representing  United States
Figure skating: Ladies' singles
Olympic Games
2014 Sochi Team
World Junior Championships
2012 Minsk Ladies' singles

Grace Elizabeth "Gracie" Gold[10] (born August 17, 1995) is an American figure skater who competes in ladies' singles. She is the 2012 World Junior silver medalist and a two-time U.S. national champion (2014 and 2016). At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Gold received a bronze medal in the team event and placed fourth in the ladies' single skating competition. Her highest place at a World Championship is fourth, achieved consecutively in 2015 and 2016.

Personal life

Grace Elizabeth Gold was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Denise, an ER nurse, and Carl Gold, an anesthesiologist.[11][12] Her fraternal twin sister, Carly Gold, is younger by 40 minutes and is also a competitive figure skater.[13][14]

Gold was raised in Springfield, Missouri, before moving to Springfield, Illinois.[11] She attended ninth grade at Glenwood Senior High School in Chatham, Illinois, before switching to online education.[12][15] She has taken ballet lessons.[16]

Career

Gold started skating at age 8.[3] She began training with Amy Vorhaben and Max Liu before switching to work with Alexia Griffin. Later she joined Susan Liss and then switched to Toni Hickey in Springfield, Illinois.[11][17] Her next coach was Alex Ouriashev, who worked with her at two rinks in the Chicago area.[12]

Gold competed in pairs with Sean Hickey. They placed eighth in juvenile pairs at the 2007 U.S. Junior Championships.[3][18]

Gold was fourth on the novice level at the 2010 U.S. Championships. The next season, she competed on the junior level but finished sixth at the Midwestern Sectionals and failed to qualify for the national championships.[19] After the event, she began preparing for the following season by working to increase her technical content.[19]

2011–12 season: International debut

Gold made her international debut at the Junior Grand Prix in Tallinn, Estonia, winning gold. She then qualified for the 2012 U.S. Championships on the junior level, where she won both the short and long programs to win the gold medal. Her total of 178.92 points is a record for a junior lady at the U.S. Championships. Gold won gold in all seven of her competitions this season leading into the U.S. Championships. She then competed at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Minsk, Belarus. Her luggage was delayed for two days but not her skates.[20] Gold won the silver medal at the event. She signed with International Management Group.[21]

Gold was named to the U.S. team for the 2012 World Team Trophy.[21] At her senior international debut, she finished fifth overall behind fellow Junior Worlds medalist Adelina Sotnikova. Team USA finished second overall.

2012–13 season

Gold finished seventh in her senior Grand Prix debut at the 2012 Skate Canada. She then worked with a sports psychologist on her focus and refined her programs in Canton, Michigan.[22] At her second event, the 2012 Rostelecom Cup, she won the silver medal.[23] At her first senior U.S. Nationals, Gold placed ninth in the short program and first in the free skate, winning the silver medal overall with a score of 186.57 points.[24][25] She was named to compete at the 2013 Four Continents, where she finished sixth. At the 2013 World Championships, she placed ninth in the short program, fifth in the free skate, and sixth overall setting a new personal best total score of 184.25 points. Gold's sixth-place finish along with teammate Ashley Wagner's fifth-place finish secured three spots for the U.S. women at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

At the 2013 World Team Trophy in Tokyo, Gold placed third in the short program and third in the free skate to finish third overall, setting a personal and season best score total of 188.03 points. Team USA won the team gold for the second time since 2009.

In July 2013, Gold became a Pandora Jewelry ambassador.[26]

2013–14 season: First national title

Gold at the 2014 US Championships

After parting ways with coach Alex Ourashiev in late August 2013, Gold trained with Marina Zueva and Oleg Epstein in Canton, Michigan, while searching for a new permanent coach.[27] She took silver at her first event of the season, the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic. After the event she traveled to California for a week-long tryout with Frank Carroll at the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo.[27] On September 25, 2013, it was announced that Carroll would be her permanent coach.[28]

During the 2013–14 ISU Grand Prix series, Gold competed at the 2013 Skate Canada, placing first in the short program with a personal best of 69.45 and third in the free skate, winning the bronze medal overall. At the 2013 NHK Trophy, she finished fourth. Gold was the third alternate for the Grand Prix Final.

At the 2014 U.S. Championships, Gold placed first in the short program with 72.12 points, the highest-ever ladies' score earned at the U.S. Championships under the ISU Judging System. She went on to win the free skate with another record score of 139.57, thus securing her first senior national title. She was named to the U.S. team for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. She won a bronze medal in the Olympic team event and finished fourth in the ladies singles event with a score of 205.53 points.[29] Gold was assigned to the 2014 World Championships in Saitama, Japan, where she placed fifth overall. At the end of the season, she performed with Stars On Ice.[30]

2014–15 season

Gold began her season at the 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series event, where she won the bronze medal behind Russians Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Alena Leonova. For the 2014–15 ISU Grand Prix season, Gold was assigned the 2014 Skate America and the 2014 NHK Trophy. She won bronze at Skate America[31] and gold at NHK Trophy, the latter marking her first win at a Grand Prix event, and the first time an American woman won the event. She qualified for her first Grand Prix Final, but withdrew on December 4, 2014, due to a stress fracture in her left foot.[32]

Gold won silver at the 2015 U.S. Championships with a score of 205.54 after finishing second in both the short program and free skate. At the 2015 Four Continents Championships, Gold placed second in the short program with a score of 62.67 but fifth in the free skate with a score of 113.91, finishing fourth overall with a score of 176.58.

At the 2015 World Championships, Gold placed eighth place in the short program with a score of 60.73, her lowest score of the season. Gold came back in the free skate with a score of 128.23, which was her season's best and second highest free skate score of the ladies event. She finished fourth overall, her highest placement at a World Championship so far.

Gold competed on Team USA at the 2015 World Team Trophy. She placed first in the short program with a score of 71.26, the highest score ever recorded for an American woman in an ISU event. However, she placed fifth in the free skate. Overall, Team USA placed first.

2015–16 season: Second national title

Gold's 2015–16 Grand Prix Series assignments were the 2015 Skate America and 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard. Gold won the silver medal at Skate America, behind Russia's Evgenia Medvedeva. She then continued her season placing first in the short program at Trophée Éric Bompard, with a score of 73.32. Unfortunately, the event was cancelled on November 14 due to the state of emergency in France following the November 2015 Paris attacks.[33] On November 23, the ISU announced that the short program standings would stand as final placements. This secured Gold her spot in the 2015 Grand Prix Final, where she placed 5th in both the short and free programs, ranking 5th overall.

On January 23, Gold earned her second National title at the 2016 U.S. Championships in Saint Paul, Minnesota. After regaining her national crown, she placed fifth at the 2016 Four Continents Championships in Taipei, Taiwan.

Gold went on to competing at the 2016 World Championships in Boston, MA, where placed first in the short program with a score of 76.43, the highest short program score ever recorded by an American woman. Placing sixth in the free program, she dropped to fourth place overall. To finish her season, Gold competed at the inaugural 2016 KOSÉ Team Challenge Cup, where she would help Team North America win the gold medal.

2016–2017 season

Gold was assigned to two ISU Grand Prix assignments, Skate America and Trophée de France. Gold began her season at the 2016 Japan Open. In the freeskate, she earned a score of 108.24, and helped Team North America win the bronze medal. At 2016 Skate America, Gold placed third in the short program with a score of 64.87 behind American Ashley Wagner and Japan's Mai Mihara after a fall on her triple flip. She struggled in the freeskate, suffering multiple falls, and dropped to 5th overall, with a total score of 184.22. Gold cited "post worlds summer depression" as a reason for not being prepared, commenting that she had only recently "felt like herself again". Her struggles continued at the 2016 Tropheé de France, putting a hand down on her triple lutz and double footing and underrotatng her triple toe, doubling a triple flip and not even performing a planned double axel, scoring a 54.87 for the short program. In the free skate she fell twice and singled a planned triple lutz, scoring 111.02, and getting a combined total of 165.89, placing 8th. This is the worst Grand Prix finish of her career thus far.

Programs

Gold won the silver medal at the 2012 Junior World Championships
Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2016–17
[34]
2015–16
[2][35][36][37]
  • El Choclo
    performed by Cello Project
    choreo. by Lori Nichol
2014–15
[4][16]
  • I Was Here
    by Beyoncé
2013–14
[39][40]
2012–13
[21][41]
2011–12
[3][42]
  • The Show
    by Lenka

Competitive highlights

Gracie Gold at the 2014 Skate America podium
Gracie Gold at the 2013 Skate Canada podium
Gracie Gold at the 2012 Rostelecom Cup podium

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

International[43]
Event 09–10 10–11 11–12 12–13 13–14 14–15 15–16 16–17
Olympics 4th
Worlds 6th 5th 4th 4th
Four Continents 6th 4th 5th
GP Final WD 5th
GP NHK Trophy 4th 1st
GP Rostel. Cup 2nd
GP Skate America 3rd 2nd 5th
GP Skate Canada 7th 3rd
GP Trophée 1st 8th
CS Golden Spin TBD
CS Nebelhorn 3rd
U.S. Classic 2nd 2nd
International: Junior[43]
Junior Worlds 2nd
JGP Estonia 1st
National[3]
U.S. Champ. 4th N 1st J 2nd 1st 2nd 1st
Midwestern 6th J 1st J
Team events
Olympics 3rd
World Team
Trophy 		2nd T
5th P 		1st T
3rd P 		1st T
3rd P
Japan Open 2nd T
6th P 		3rd T
6th P
Team Challenge
Cup 		1st T
4th P
TBD: Assigned; WD: Withdrew
Levels – N: Novice; J: Junior
T: Team result; P: Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

Detailed results

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships. Pewter medals for fourth-place finishes awarded only at U.S. national and regional events. At team events, medals awarded for team results only.

Gold at the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final
Gold at the 2012 World Team Trophy
Gold at the 2012 Rostelecom Cup
2016–17 season
Date Event SP FS Total
November 11–13, 2016 2016 Trophée de France 10
54.87		 8
111.02		 8
165.89
October 21–23, 2016 2016 Skate America 3
64.87		 5
119.35		 5
184.22
October 1, 2016 2016 Japan Open - 6
108.24		 3
2015–16 season
Date Event SP FS Total
April 22–24, 2016 2016 Team Challenge Cup 2T/3P
71.34		 1T/4P
142.00		 1
March 28 – April 3, 2016 2016 World Championships 1
76.43		 6
134.86		 4
211.29
February 16–21, 2016 2016 Four Continents Championships 9
57.26		 3
121.13		 5
178.39
January 15–23, 2016 2016 U.S. Championships 2
62.50		 1
147.96		 1
210.46
December 10–13, 2015 2015–16 Grand Prix Final 5
66.52		 5
128.27		 5
194.79
November 13–15, 2015 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard 1
73.32		 C 1
73.32
October 23–25, 2015 2015 Skate America 2
65.39		 1
137.41		 2
202.80
October 3, 2015 2015 Japan Open – 6
114.53		 2
2014–15 season
Date Event SP FS Total
April 16–19, 2015 2015 World Team Trophy 1
71.26		 5
124.29		 1T/3P
195.55
March 23–29, 2015 2015 World Championships 8
60.73		 2
128.23		 4
188.96
February 9–15, 2015 2015 Four Continents Championships 2
62.67		 5
113.91		 4
176.58
January 18–25, 2015 2015 U.S. Championships 2
67.02		 2
138.52		 2
205.54
November 28–30, 2014 2014 NHK Trophy 1
68.16		 1
123.00		 1
191.16
October 24–26, 2014 2014 Skate America 3
60.81		 3
118.57		 3
179.38
September 25–27, 2014 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy 3
61.82		 2
120.49		 3
182.31
2013–14 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 24–30, 2014 2014 World Championships 5
70.31		 7
124.27		 5
194.58
February 7–23, 2014 2014 Winter Olympics – Singles 4
68.63		 5
136.90		 4
205.53
February 7–23, 2014 2014 Winter Olympics – Team event – 2
129.38		 3
January 5–12, 2014 2014 U.S. Championships 1
72.12		 1
139.57		 1
211.69
November 8–10, 2013 2013 NHK Trophy 4
62.83		 3
114.98		 4
177.81
October 25–27, 2013 2013 Skate Canada International 1
69.45		 3
117.20		 3
186.75
September 11–15, 2013 2013 U.S. Classic 1
58.49		 3
106.19		 2
164.68
2012–13 season
Date Event SP FS Total
April 11–14, 2013 2013 World Team Trophy 3
60.98		 3
127.05		 1T/3P
188.03
March 11–17, 2013 2013 World Championships 9
58.85		 5
125.40		 6
184.25
February 8–11, 2013 2013 Four Continents Championships 5
60.36		 6
106.30		 6
166.66
January 19–27, 2013 2013 U.S. Championships 9
54.08		 1
132.49		 2
186.57
November 9–11, 2012 2012 Rostelecom Cup 1
62.16		 2
112.87		 2
175.03
October 26–28, 2012 2012 Skate Canada International 9
52.19		 6
99.38		 7
151.57
September 12–16, 2012 2012 U.S. Classic 2
59.37		 1
111.78		 2
171.15
2011–12 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
April 18–22, 2012 2012 ISU World Team Trophy Senior 4
59.07		 5
110.58		 5
169.65
February 27 – March 4, 2012 2012 World Junior Championships Junior 2
58.00		 2
113.85		 2
171.85
January 22–29, 2012 2012 U.S. Championships Junior 1
60.21		 1
118.17		 1
178.92
November 15–19, 2011 2012 Midwestern Sectionals Junior 1
59.18		 1
115.72		 1
174.90
October 12–15, 2011 2011 JGP Estonia Junior 1
60.18		 1
112.51		 1
172.69
2010–11 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
November 9–13, 2010 2011 Midwestern Sectionals Junior 6
40.52		 6
75.55		 6
116.07
2009–10 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
November 9–13, 2010 2010 U.S. Championships Novice 6
–		 4
–		 4
123.61

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