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Taylor Gold

Taylor Riley "Ty" Gold (born November 17, 1993) is an American Olympian snowboarder. He competes in the halfpipe.

He is a two-time U.S. Revolution Tour champion, 2013 Copper Mountain Grand Prix/World Cup champion, 2014 Burton US Open champion, and 2014 Red Bull Double Pipe champion. He is also a Mammoth Mountain U.S. Grand Prix silver medalist (2013–14), 2011 FIS Junior World Championships silver medalist, and 2013 Breckenridge Dew Tour iON Mountain bronze medalist. He competed for the United States in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China.

His younger sister is American Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion snowboarder Arielle Gold.

Gold is Jewish, and was born in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. His father, Ken Gold, who was a professional moguls skier, videotapes each of his practices. His younger sister is American Olympic bronze medalist and World Champion snowboarder Arielle Gold. He and his family live part of the year in Steamboat Springs and part in Breckenridge, Colorado.

Gold became interested in competitive snowboarding after watching the sport during the 2002 Winter Olympics . He trained at the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club and began competing at the age of nine.

His home mountain is Steamboat. He is coached by Mike Jankowski, Spencer Tamblyn, and Ashley Berger.

He 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. He won in halfpipe at the 2011 U.S. Revolution Tour, in Mount Hood, Oregon, and at the United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association (USASA) National Championships.

For most of 2012, he was sidelined with a bruised heel injury.

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