Gracie Gold
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Gold at the 2015–16 Grand Prix Final
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| Full name | Grace Elizabeth Gold | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | ||||||||||||||||||
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August 17, 1995 Newton, Massachusetts |
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| Home town | Redondo Beach, California | ||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Marina Zueva, Oleg Epstein | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach | Frank Carroll, Alexander Ouriashev, Toni Hickey, Susan Liss, Amy Vorhaben, Alexia Griffin | ||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Lori Nichol | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former choreographer | Marina Zueva, Pasquale Camerlengo, Scott Brown, Oleg Epstein | ||||||||||||||||||
| Skating club | Wagon Wheel FSC | ||||||||||||||||||
| Training locations | Canton, Michigan | ||||||||||||||||||
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El Segundo, California Crystal Lake, Illinois Springfield, Illinois Springfield, Missouri |
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| Began skating | 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Combined total | 211.29 2016 Worlds |
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| Short program | 76.43 2016 Worlds |
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| Free skate | 137.41 2015 Skate America |
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Grace Elizabeth "Gracie" Gold (born August 17, 1995) is an American figure skater who competes in ladies' singles. She is the 2012 World Junior silver medalist and a two-time U.S. national champion (2014 and 2016). At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Gold received a bronze medal in the team event and placed fourth in the ladies' single skating competition. Her highest place at a World Championship is fourth, achieved consecutively in 2015 and 2016.
Grace Elizabeth Gold was born on August 17, 1995 in Newton, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Denise, an ER nurse, and Carl Gold, an anesthesiologist. Her fraternal twin sister, Carly Gold (named after their father), is younger by 40 minutes and also competed in figure skating.
Gold was raised in Springfield, Missouri, before moving to Springfield, Illinois. She attended ninth grade at Glenwood Senior High School in Chatham, Illinois, before switching to online education. She has taken ballet lessons.
Gold started skating at age 8. She began training with Amy Vorhaben and Max Liu before switching to work with Alexia Griffin. Later she joined Susan Liss and then switched to Toni Hickey in Springfield, Illinois. Her next coach was Alex Ouriashev, who worked with her at two rinks in the Chicago area.
Gold competed in pairs with Sean Hickey. They placed eighth in juvenile pairs at the 2007 U.S. Junior Championships.
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