Arielle Townsend Gold was born on May 4,1996 and is an American Olympic medalist snowboarder.
17 Facts About Arielle Gold
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Arielle Gold won a bronze medal in the superpipe at the 2013 Winter X Games XVII.
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Arielle Gold suffered a separated shoulder right before the Olympics and was unable to compete.
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Arielle Gold is Jewish and was born in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
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Arielle Gold competed in rodeos and horse jumping events before becoming involved in snowboarding.
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Arielle Gold later transferred to the Insight School of Colorado, a full-time online public charter school that allowed her to take her classes online.
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Arielle Gold learned to ski when she was three years old.
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Arielle Gold said: "Taylor made it look like so much fun".
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Arielle Gold is a member of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club.
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Arielle Gold won the gold medal in halfpipe at the FIS Junior Snowboarding World Championships in the Sierra Nevada at the age of 15.
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Arielle Gold won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2013 in Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 16, the second-youngest ever to win a World Championship.
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Later that week after replacing the injured Gretchen Bleiler, Arielle Gold won a bronze medal in the superpipe at the Winter X Games XVII in Aspen, Colorado.
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Arielle Gold won the Burton European Open in Laax, Switzerland, came in second in the 2013 Grand Prix in Park City, Utah in February, and won the bronze medal at X Games Europe in Tignes, France.
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Arielle Gold ranked second on the 2013 World Snowboard Tour and earned a place on the US Snowboarding pro team.
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Arielle Gold was the youngest member of the US 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics halfpipe team at the age of 17, and was considered a medal contender in the women's halfpipe.
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Arielle Gold was not able to compete in the qualification for the Olympic halfpipe finals, because of a separated right shoulder injury suffered on February 12,2014, when she caught an edge at the end of the pipe during a practice run and crashed at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, moments before the competition.
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Arielle Gold was ranked 6th in the 2017 FIS World Cup Halfpipe Standings.