Taylor Riley "Ty" Gold was born on November 17,1993 and is an American Olympian snowboarder.
16 Facts About Taylor Gold
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Taylor Gold is a Mammoth Mountain US Grand Prix silver medalist, 2011 FIS Junior World Championships silver medalist, and 2013 Breckenridge Dew Tour iON Mountain bronze medalist.
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Taylor Gold competed for the United States in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.
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Taylor Gold's father, Ken Gold, who was a professional moguls skier, videotapes each of his practices.
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Taylor Gold became interested in competitive snowboarding after watching the sport during the 2002 Winter Olympics.
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Taylor Gold trained at the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and began competing at the age of nine.
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Taylor Gold is coached by Mike Jankowski, Spencer Tamblyn, and Ashley Berger.
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Taylor Gold was on the 2011 FIS World Championships team in Spain and earned a gold medal in halfpipe at the 2011 FIS Junior World Championships in Valmalenco, Italy.
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Taylor Gold won in halfpipe at the 2011 US Revolution Tour, in Mount Hood, Oregon, and at the United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association National Championships.
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Taylor Gold 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 Laax, Switzerland.
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Taylor Gold competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Sochi, Russia, in the halfpipe competition, after becoming the first snowboarder to qualify for the men's USA Team.
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On February 11,2014, at the Olympics Taylor Gold almost went to the finals of the snowboard halfpipe.
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Taylor Gold's sister was the youngest member of the US 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics halfpipe team at the age of 17.
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Not long after returning from Sochi, Taylor 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 Taku Hiraoka of Japan.
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Taylor Gold won a bronze medal in SBD SuperPipe at the X Games Aspen in 2017.
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In 2022, Taylor Gold competed in the men's halfpipe at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, placing in 5th.