Gracie Gold

Gracie Gold is an American figure skater, born Grace Elizabeth Gold on 17 August 1995 in Newton, Massachusetts. She won the United States national title in 2014 and 2016, placed fourth in the individual event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and took bronze with the American team in the team event there. She won six Grand Prix medals (two gold, two silver, two bronze), was the first American woman to win the NHK Trophy, and holds the record for the highest short program score by an American woman, 76.43, set at the 2016 World Championships in Boston. She has spoken openly about anxiety, depression and an eating disorder, received the 2022 Bell of Hope Award, appeared in the HBO documentary The Weight of Gold in 2020 and published a memoir in February 2024.