Gracie Gold
Gracie Gold (born August 17, 1995) is an American figure skater.
Childhood
Gracie Gold was born on August 17, 1995 in Newton, Massachusetts. When she was four years old her family moved to Springfield, Illinois. At a skating birthday party when she was eight years old, she began to try figure skating. After that party she signed up for lessons. She was a natural; she soon was landing double axels.
Before Olympics and other competitions
After a while her hard work wasn't paying off. She kept getting low scores! Around a year before the Sochi, Olympics Gracie's relationship with her coach, Alex Ouriashev had completely crumbled. A little while after that Gracie switched coaches. She switched to Frank Carroll and this switch took her mother and sister Carly Gold with her to Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles. Frank Carroll’s experience with coaching other Olympians like Evan Lysacek, Michelle Kwan, Tim Goebel, Linda Fratianne and Denis Ten helped and inspired Gracie. Going to the Olympics gave a lot of stress to her. She would stress about being an Olympian and would stress out about all of the mistakes she would make in practice. Sometimes to calm down Gracie would juggle. She had to learn how to relax while doing her triple axels and how to save a jump if she started off wrong. Gracie also had to learn how to make her performance still look good to the judges, even after a fall. Later, after all of this training Gracie was ready to compete in competitions like the Midwestern sectional, The U.S. Championships, and the U.S. International Classic. In almost all of her later competitions she did better than the firsts. This helped her earn her spot in the 2014 Sochi, Olympics.
Sochi, Olympics
Gracie got a bronze medal from the Olympics, she got this from the team event. In the Ladies free skate, and short program she was placed fourth. Gracie is eager to return to Olympic Ice in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Gracie Gold Media
- 2012 World Junior FS – Ladies.jpg
Gold (left) won the silver medal at the 2012 Junior World Championships
- 2012 Rostelecom Cup 02d 249 Gracie Gold.JPG
Gracie Gold skates her free program at the 2012 Rostelecom Cup
- U.S. Championships Ladies FSVC - Gracie Gold (3).jpg
Gold at the 2014 US Championships
- Skate America 2014 – Ladies.jpg
Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Elena Radionova, and Gold (left to right) during the medal ceremony at Skate America 2014
- Skate America 2015 – Ladies.jpg
Gold (left) on the podium at 2015 Skate America, with Evgenia Medvedeva (center) and Satoko Miyahara (right)
- 2015 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final Gracie Gold IMG 9308.JPG
Gold performing her free skate at the 2015 GPF
- 2018 Rostelecom Cup Gracie Gold 2018-11-16 20-27-26 (2).jpg
Gracie Gold at the 2018 Rostelecom Cup
- Skate America 2014 – Ladies.jpg
Gracie Gold at the 2014 Skate America podium
- Skate Canada 2013 – Ladies.jpg
Gracie Gold at the 2013 Skate Canada podium
- 2012 Rostelecom Cup – Ladies.jpg
Gracie Gold at the 2012 Rostelecom Cup podium
References
- Hersh, Philip. "A Brave New World for Gold." Chicago Tribune. 19 Feb. 2014: 12. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 06 May. 2014.
- "Gracie Gold." Gale Biography in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Biography in Context. Web. 6 May 2014
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