76 Facts About Gracie Gold

Gracie Gold is a 2014 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event, a six-time Grand Prix medalist, and a two-time US national champion.

Gracie Gold placed 4th at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

At the junior level, Gold is the 2012 World Junior silver medalist, the 2011 JGP Estonia champion, and the 2012 US junior national champion.

In 2014, Gracie Gold became the first American woman to win the NHK Trophy title on the Grand Prix Series circuit and holds the record for the highest short program score ever recorded by an American woman which she achieved at the 2016 World Championships in Boston.

Gracie Gold is a mental health advocate and was recognized with the 2022 Bell of Hope Award.

Grace Elizabeth Gracie Gold was born on August 17,1995, in Newton, Massachusetts.

Gracie Gold is the daughter of Denise, an ER nurse, and Carl Gold, an anesthesiologist.

Gracie Gold grew up in Springfield, Missouri before she and her family moved to Springfield, Illinois.

Gracie Gold said that she has lived in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Gracie Gold attended ninth grade at Glenwood High School in Chatham, Illinois, before switching to online education through the University of Missouri.

Gracie Gold has taken ballet lessons to improve her performance in skating.

Gracie Gold has been open about her mental health struggles, including her treatment for anxiety, depression, and an eating disorder.

Gracie Gold discussed having suicidal thoughts after moving alone to Michigan in 2017 and isolating herself in her apartment.

Gracie Gold said that she slept for as long as 24 hours at a time and then stayed up for the next 3 nights.

Gracie Gold said that she had reported the incident to a US Figure Skating official, who passed this on to the US Center for SafeSport.

The public ruling revealed that the man Gracie Gold alleged to have violated her was Australian figure skater Brendan Kerry.

Gracie Gold came out as bisexual in her memoir, claiming to have dated both men and women.

Gracie Gold dated two-time British junior ice dance national champion James Hernandez.

Gracie Gold started skating at age 8 after attending a friend's birthday party at her local rink in Springfield, Missouri.

Gracie Gold then began training with Amy Vorhaben and Max Liu before changing coaches to work with Alexia Griffin.

Gracie Gold was fourth on the novice level at the 2010 US Championships.

Gracie Gold made her international debut at the Junior Grand Prix in Tallinn, Estonia, winning gold.

Gracie Gold scored 178.92 points, a record for a junior in the women's US Championships.

Gracie Gold won gold in all seven of her competitions for the season leading into the US Championships.

Gracie Gold competed at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Minsk, Belarus.

Gracie Gold was named to the US team for the 2012 World Team Trophy.

Gracie Gold finished seventh in her senior Grand Prix debut at the 2012 Skate Canada.

Gracie Gold then worked with a sports psychologist on her focus and refined her programs in Canton, Michigan.

Gracie Gold was named to compete at the 2013 Four Continents, where she finished sixth.

At the 2013 World Team Trophy in Tokyo, Gracie 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.

Gracie Gold took silver at her first event of the season, the US International Figure Skating Classic.

Gracie Gold was the third alternate for the Grand Prix Final.

At the 2014 US Championships, Gracie Gold placed first in the short program with 72.12 points, the highest-ever ladies' score earned at the US Championships under the ISU Judging System.

Gracie Gold won the free skate with another record score of 139.57, securing her first senior national title.

Gracie Gold was named to the US team for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Gracie Gold won a bronze medal in the Olympic team event and controversially finished fourth and off the podium in the ladies singles event with a score of 205.53 points.

Gracie Gold was assigned to the 2014 World Championships in Saitama, Japan where she placed fifth overall.

Gracie Gold began her season at the 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy, an ISU Challenger Series event, winning the bronze medal behind Russians Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Alena Leonova.

Gracie Gold won bronze at Skate America and gold at the NHK Trophy, the latter marking her first win at a Grand Prix event, and the first time an American woman won the event.

Gracie Gold won a silver medal at the 2015 US Championships with a score of 205.54 after finishing second in both the short program and free skate.

At the 2015 Four Continents Championships, Gracie 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.

Gracie Gold 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.

Gracie Gold finished fourth overall, her highest placement at a World Championship so far.

Gracie Gold competed on Team USA at the 2015 World Team Trophy.

Gracie Gold 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.

Gracie Gold won the silver medal at Skate America, behind Russia's Evgenia Medvedeva.

Gracie Gold continued her season placing first in the short program at Trophee Eric Bompard, with a score of 73.32.

On January 23, Gracie Gold earned her second National title at the 2016 US Championships in Saint Paul.

Gracie Gold then competed at the 2016 World Championships in Boston where she placed first in the short program with a score of 76.43, the highest short program score ever recorded by an American woman.

Gracie Gold was assigned to two Grand Prix events, 2016 Skate America and the 2016 Trophee de France.

Gracie Gold began her season at the 2016 Japan Open.

Gracie Gold struggled in the free skate, suffering multiple falls and dropped to 5th overall with a total score of 184.22.

Gracie Gold cited "post worlds summer depression" as a reason for not being prepared, commenting she had only recently "felt like herself again".

Gracie Gold's struggles continued at the Trophee de France; she scored a combined total of 165.89 for 8th place, the worst Grand Prix finish of her career.

In late December 2016, Gracie Gold resumed her collaboration with her former coach, Alex Ouriashev, training with him in Chicago before returning to Los Angeles, where she was coached by Frank Carroll.

Gracie Gold finished 6th at the 2017 US Championships, and was left off the Four Continents and World Championship teams for the first time in her senior career; she had previously been on every world championship team beginning in 2013.

Gracie Gold didn't inform Gold before telling the media, causing major backlash on social media.

However, Gracie Gold still said that despite being surprised about Carroll's decision to tell the media before informing her, she maintained the "upmost respect for Frank" and would take the time to make the right decision on coaching arrangements heading into the Olympic season.

On February 8,2017, Gracie Gold announced that Marina Zoueva and Oleg Epstein would be her trainers at the Arctic Edge ice rink in Canton.

Gracie Gold wrote that pressure from Nike's coaches helped to trigger Gold to show disordered eating so profound that she considered taking her own life.

Gracie Gold withdrew from the 2017 Japan Open, set to be her season opening and withdrew from the 2017 CS Ondrej Nepela Trophy for personal reasons.

Gracie Gold had been assigned to two Grand Prix events, the 2017 Cup of China and the 2017 Internationaux de France, both of which she withdrew from in October due to ongoing treatment for anxiety, depression, and an eating disorder.

Gracie Gold later withdrew from US nationals saying that she would not have proper training beforehand.

Gracie Gold's coach was Vincent Restencourt based at IceWorks in Aston, Pennsylvania southwest of Philadelphia.

Gracie Gold 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.

Gracie 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.

Restencourt began posting promising videos of Gracie Gold attempting triple Axels and quadruple salchows in harness on his Instagram, as well as all of her triple jumps.

At the 2020 US South Atlantic Regional Atlantic Championships, Gracie Gold placed third in the short program and fourth in the free program after making significant errors in both programs.

Gracie Gold was assigned to compete at 2020 Skate America.

Gracie Gold was sixth in the short program at the 2022 US Championships, but dropped to tenth place overall after the free skate.

Gracie Gold was twelfth at the 2022 CS Nebelhorn Trophy, and placed sixth at 2022 Skate America.

At the 2023 US Figure Skating Championships, Gracie Gold again landed a triple Lutz-triple toe loop combination in her short program and placed 5th.

Gracie Gold was 11th in the free skate to place 8th overall, her best result since 2017.

In October 2013, Gracie Gold was named as a face of CoverGirl.

Gracie Gold appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated's February 2014 issue, GQ Japan, and Teen Vogue.

Gracie Gold is an ambassador for KOSE Infinity, a beauty product.