Taylor Riley "Ty" Gold (born November 17, 1993) is an American Olympian

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. He competes in the

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. He is a two-time U.S. Revolution Tour champion, 2013 Copper Mountain Grand Prix/World Cup champion, 2014 Burton US Open champion, and 2014 Red Bull Double Pipe champion. He is also a

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U.S. Grand Prix silver medalist (2013–14), 2011 FIS Junior World Championships silver medalist, and 2013 Breckenridge Dew Tour iON Mountain bronze medalist. He competed for the United States in the

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, Russia, and in the

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, China. His younger sister is American Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion snowboarder Arielle Gold.

Personal life

Gold is Jewish, and was born in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. His father, Ken Gold, who was a professional moguls skier, videotapes each of his practices. His younger sister is American Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion

Arielle Gold. He and his family live part of the year in Steamboat Springs and part in

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Snowboarding career

Early years

Gold became interested in competitive snowboarding after watching the sport during the

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. He trained at the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and began competing at the age of nine. His home mountain is

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. He is coached by Mike Jankowski, Spencer Tamblyn, and Ashley Berger.

2011–12: Junior World Championships silver medalist

He was on the 2011 FIS World Championships team in Spain and earned a

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in halfpipe at the 2011 FIS Junior World Championships in Valmalenco, Italy. He won in halfpipe at the 2011 U.S. Revolution Tour, in Mount Hood, Oregon, and at the United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association (USASA) National Championships. For most of 2012, he was sidelined with a bruised heel injury.

2013–14: Olympian

In 2013, Gold won the halfpipe competition in the U.S. Revolution Tour/US Open Qualifiers in

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, and placed sixth in halfpipe at the Burton U.S. Open in Vail, Colorado. He also took second in halfpipe at the 2013 USASA Nationals in Copper Mountain, Colorado, and came in ninth in halfpipe in the 2013 Burton European Open in

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, Switzerland. He ranked 11th in the World Snowboard Tour standings in 2012–13 and was 5th in the world among men in reaching snowboard finals. He was also the 2013 Copper Mountain Grand Prix/World Cup champion, earned a silver medal in the

U.S. Grand Prix superpipe, and earned a bronze medal in the 2013 Breckenridge Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships. Gold competed at the

at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in

, Russia, in the halfpipe competition, after becoming the first snowboarder to qualify for the men's USA Team. On February 11, 2014, at the Olympics Gold almost went to the finals of the snowboard halfpipe. But, on the end of his second run in a two-round semi-final, he tried one last trick but ran out of halfpipe and fell. He was one of the first two athletes to compete at a Summer or Winter Olympics with the surname "Gold." His sister was the youngest member of the US 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics halfpipe team at the age of 17. But she was not able to compete in the qualification for the Olympic halfpipe finals, because of a separated right shoulder injury she suffered on February 12 when she caught an edge at the end of the pipe during a practice run and crashed moments before her competition. Not long after returning from Sochi, Gold won first place in the 32nd annual 2014 Burton US Open half-pipe competition in Vail and the Red Bull Double Pipe over second-place 2014 Olympic bronze medalist

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of Japan.

2015–present

In early 2015, Gold had his first Dew Tour win. He suffered a knee injury that included a broken

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, which kept him from competing in the 2015-16 season. Gold won a bronze medal in SBD SuperPipe at the

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Aspen in 2017. He had to sit out the 2017-18 season due to surgery that he had for two different injuries.">"Olympic cheat sheet: Meet Steamboat’s 2018 Olympians and find out when they’re on TV" , SteamboatToday.com
/ref> In 2022, Gold competed in the men's halfpipe at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, placing in 5th.

References

External links

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"Watch Taylor Gold's Victorious US Open Halfpipe Run" (video)
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