Arielle Gold

Taylor is, in many ways, responsible for Arielle’s success because he ... told her: 'Look, most of the girls do things the way the other girls do. You need to do things the way the guys do. You need to grab your snowboard, you need to go big, you have style, you need to have aggression in your riding.'

Competing for the United States in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, she won a bronze medal in the women's halfpipe event.

She was ranked 6th in the 2017 FIS World Cup Halfpipe Standings.

In 2016 she won a silver medal in the X Games in Aspen, and a bronze medal in the X Games in Oslo, Norway.

In 2015 she finished second in the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix in Park City, Utah, third in the Burton US Open in Vail, Colorado, and fourth in the X Games in Aspen, Colorado.

Gold was the youngest member of the US 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics halfpipe team at the age of 17, and was considered a medal contender in the Women's halfpipe. But she was not able to compete in the qualification for the Olympic halfpipe finals, because of a separated right shoulder injury suffered on February 12, 2014, when she caught an edge at the end of the pipe during a practice run and crashed at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, moments before the competition.

She won a bronze medal in the superpipe at the 2013 Winter X Games XVII. In 2014, she was the youngest member of the US Sochi Winter Olympics halfpipe team, at the age of 17. However, she suffered a separated shoulder directly before the competition, and was unable to compete. Competing for the US in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, she won a bronze medal in the women's halfpipe event

She won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2013 in Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Quebec, Canada, at the age of 16, the second-youngest ever World Championship winner. Later that week, after replacing the injured Gretchen Bleiler, Gold won a bronze medal in the superpipe at the Winter X Games XVII in Aspen, Colorado.

She won the Burton European Open in Laax, Switzerland, came in second in the 2013 Grand Prix in Park City, Utah, in February, and won the bronze medal at X Games Europe in Tignes, France. She ranked second on the 2013 World Snowboard Tour. She also earned a place on the U.S. Snowboarding pro team.

In 2012, she won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the FIS Junior Snowboarding World Championships, at the age of 15. The next year, she won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2013, at the age of 16, becoming the second-youngest snowboarder to win a world championship.

In 2012 at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria, she won silver medals in slopestyle and halfpipe. She then won the gold medal in halfpipe at the FIS Junior Snowboarding World Championships in the Sierra Nevada (Spain), at the age of 15. For 2012, she ranked 14th on the World Snowboard Tour.

In 2010, she won the Burton US Open Junior Jam halfpipe contest. In 2011, she won a silver medal at the U.S. Revolution Tour, Copper Mountain, Colorado, United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association (USASA) National Championships.

Arielle Townsend Gold (born May 4, 1996) is an American Olympic medalist snowboarder.