Gracie Gold

Career Gold started skating at age 8 after attending a friend's birthday party at her local rink in Springfield, Missouri. She won a silver medal 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, she placed eighth place in the short program with a score of 60.73, her lowest score of the season. She came back in the free skate with a score of 128.23, which was her season's best and the second highest free skate score of the ladies event. She finished fourth overall, her highest placement at a World Championship so far. She 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 2015 Skate America and the 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard. She won the silver medal at Skate America, behind Russia's Evgenia Medvedeva. She continued her season placing first in the short program at Trophée Éric Bompard, with a score of 73.32. thumb Gold performing her free skate at the 2015 GPF The event was canceled on November 14 due to a state of emergency in France after the November 2015 Paris attacks. On November 23, the ISU announced that the short program standings would stand as final placements securing Gold a 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. Her coach was Vincent Restencourt based at IceWorks in Aston, Pennsylvania southwest of Philadelphia. At the 2018 Rostelecom Cup, in the short program, she doubled the triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination, under-rotated, and fell on her triple flip. She also popped her planned double Axel. She scored 37.51, the lowest short program score that she has ever received since the start of her junior career, placing her in 10th and last place. Gold announced her withdrawal from the free skate via Twitter saying it would benefit her mental health to leave because of her failure in the short program. She later said that she was planning to compete in the 2019 US Championships; however on January 9, 2019, she announced her withdrawal from nationals in order to further prepare for the 2019–2020 season. She said she was working towards the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Videos taken by her coach posted on Instagram showed that she had begun practicing jumps without the harness and was successfully landing them.

2019–2020 season Being ineligible for a spot at a Grand Prix event, Gold competed at domestic regional competitions in an attempt to earn a spot at the 2020 U.S. Championships. Restencourt began posting promising videos of Gold attempting triple Axels and quadruple salchows in harness on his Instagram, as well as all of her triple jumps. At the 2020 U.S. South Atlantic Regional Atlantic Championships, Gold placed third in the short program and fourth in the free program after making significant errors in both programs. However she placed third overall and advanced to the 2020 Eastern Sectional Championships, where she won the bronze medal. That earned her a qualifying spot for the 2020 U.S. Championships. She placed twelfth at the national championships. She was 11th in the free skate to place 8th overall, her best result since 2017.

Endorsements In October 2013, Gold was named as a face of CoverGirl. She appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated February 2014 issue, GQ Japan, and Teen Vogue. Later, she was named the 2014 Sportswoman of the Year by the Los Angeles Council, and received an award in March 2014 during the L.A. Sports ceremony. She is an ambassador for KOSÉ Infinity, a beauty product.

Gold is sponsored by John Wilson, her blade manufacturer, Pattern-99 (she is the brand ambassador); Edea, her skating boot manufacturer; Visa; United Airlines; Procter & Gamble; Red Bull; and Nike. On November 23, the International Skating Union announced that the short program results would be considered as the final results for the competition.

Junior level