Early years Gold became interested in competitive snowboarding after watching the sport during the
2002 Winter Olympics .
2013–14: Olympian In 2013, Gold won the halfpipe competition in the U.S. Revolution Tour/US Open Qualifiers in
Seven Springs, Pennsylvania, and placed sixth in halfpipe at the
Burton U.S. Open in
Vail, Colorado. Gold competed at the
2014 Winter Olympics at
Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in
Sochi, Russia, in the
halfpipe competition, after becoming the first snowboarder to qualify for the men's USA Team. On February 11, 2014, at the Olympics Gold almost went to the finals of the snowboard halfpipe. But, on the end of his second run in a two-round semi-final, he tried one last trick but ran out of halfpipe and fell. Not long after returning from Sochi, Gold won first place in the 32nd annual 2014 Burton US Open half-pipe competition in Vail and the Red Bull Double Pipe over second-place 2014 Olympic bronze medalist
Taku Hiraoka of Japan.
2015–present In early 2015, Gold had his first Dew Tour win. He suffered a knee injury that included a broken
kneecap, which kept him from competing in the 2015-16 season. Gold won a bronze medal in SBD SuperPipe at the
X Games Aspen in 2017. He had to sit out the 2017-18 season due to surgery that he had for two different injuries. In 2022, Gold competed in the
men's halfpipe at the
XXIV Olympic Winter Games, placing in 5th. ==See also==