Ariel Gold

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Ariel Gold Snowboard
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday May 4, 1996
place of birth Steamboat Springs ,  United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
size 162 cm
Weight 57 kg
Career
discipline Halfpipe, slopestyle
society Steamboat Springs WSC
National squad since 2010
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
X-Games 0 × gold 2 × silver 3 × bronze
Youth Olympic Games 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
JWM medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2018 Pyeongchang halfpipe
FIS Snowboard world championships
gold 2013 Stoneham halfpipe
Winter X Games logo X-Games
bronze 2013 Aspen SuperPipe
bronze 2013 Tignes SuperPipe
silver 2016 Aspen SuperPipe
bronze 2016 Oslo SuperPipe
silver 2018 Aspen SuperPipe
Olympic rings Youth Olympic Winter Games
silver 2012 Innsbruck halfpipe
silver 2012 Innsbruck Slopestyle
FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships
gold 2012 Sierra Nevada halfpipe
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup August 28, 2011
 Freestyle World Cup 6. ( 2012/13 , 2014/15 )
 Halfpipe World Cup 2. ( 2014/15 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 halfpipe 0 5 1
TTR logo TTR World Snowboard Tour
 Overall rating 15th (2012/13)
 Halfpipe rating 2. (2012/13, 2013/14)
last change: January 29, 2019

Arielle Gold (born May 4, 1996 in Steamboat Springs , Colorado ) is an American snowboarder . It starts in the disciplines halfpipe and slopestyle .

Career

Gold made her international debut in February 2010 at the FIS races in Copper. With seventh place she reached the top 10. In December of the same year she started for the first time in the same place in the Nor-Am Cup and reached place 21 in the halfpipe.

At the Snowboard Junior World Championships 2011 in Chiesa in Valmalenco , Gold took eighth place in the halfpipe. On August 28, 2011, she made her debut in the Snowboard World Cup . In the halfpipe in Cardrona , she was eighth to collect her first World Cup points. Also in Saas-Fee in November, Gold achieved a good result in tenth place. At the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck , she won the silver medal in the halfpipe and slopestyle.

After a fourth place in the Nor-Am Cup at Mammoth Mountain , gold won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the Snowboard Junior World Championships 2012 in Sierra Nevada, Spain . At the national championships in 2012 she won gold on the halfpipe. In August 2012 she started again in the World Cup in Cardrona after a long break. Since she was able to win points with 14th place, but not convincing, it took until January 2013 until she was part of the World Cup team again. In Copper Mountain , she clearly won the halfpipe qualification, but narrowly missed a podium finish in fourth place.

At the following Snowboard World Championships in 2013 in Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury , gold was world champion in the halfpipe on January 20, 2013. In the same week she won a bronze medal in the SuperPipe at the XVII. Winter X Games after taking the starting place of the injured Gretchen Bleiler .

On February 1, 2013, she was second in Park City for the first time on the podium in a World Cup competition. At the following World Cup in Sochi , Gold was once again one of the favorites for the podium after winning the qualification, but clearly missed it in eleventh place. At the Burton European Open 2013 in Laax , she won on the halfpipe. Third places followed at the Burton US Open in Vail and the Winter X Games Europe 2013 in Tignes . As in the previous year, she finished second in the World Snowboard Tour halfpipe rating. Gold started again in Cardrona in August, but was again behind the top places in ninth place.

With the second podium of her career in the FIS World Cup in Copper Mountain in December 2013, Gold reached the qualification for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi . During a training run before the qualification rounds in the halfpipe in Rosa Chutor , Gold fell badly and was unable to take part in the competition because of the broken shoulder.

In the 2014/15 season she finished second in the World Cup in Copper Mountain and Park City . In March 2015, she finished third at the 2015 Burton US Open in Vail . In the FIS halfpipe evaluation, she reached second place. In the following season she won the Laax Open 2016 in Laax on the halfpipe and won the silver medal in the superpipe competition at the Winter X Games 2016 in Aspen . In February 2016 she won the bronze medal in the superpipe competition at the X-Games Oslo 2016 in Oslo . In the 2016/17 season she took second place at the Laax Open 2017 and sixth place at the Winter X Games 2017 . She finished fifth at the 2017 Snowboard World Championships in Sierra Nevada . After finishing third on the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge at the start of the 2017/18 season, she won the silver medal at the 2018 Winter X Games and the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .

Gold's older brother is snowboarder Taylor Gold .

successes

2009/10 season

2010/11 season

2011/12 season

2012/13 season

2013/14 season

2014/15 season

2015/16 season

Season 2016/17

  • 2nd place - Laax Open and Snowboard World Cup in Laax , halfpipe

Season 2017/18

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At 16, snowboarder Arielle Gold is flying high , USA Today . January 22, 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2013. 
  2. ↑ Kelly Clark three-peats in SuperPipe , ESPN . January 26, 2013. 
  3. ↑ Gnarly crash ended teen snowboarder Arielle Gold's Olympics before they started , Yahoo Sports . February 13, 2014. Retrieved May 13, 2014. 
personal data
SURNAME Gold, Ariel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American snowboarder
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Steamboat Springs , Colorado , United States