Eileen Gu

Eileen Gu


Eileen Feng Gu (born September 3, 2003), also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing (Chinese: 谷爱凌), is an American-born freestyle skier. She has competed for China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air events since 2019.


At age 18, Gu became the youngest Olympic champion in freestyle skiing after winning gold medals in big air and halfpipe and a silver medal in slopestyle at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She is the first freestyle skier to win three medals at a single Winter Olympics. Owing to geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China, her decision to switch from Team USA to China[6] drew international attention at the beginning of the 2022 Winter Olympics. She is the first U.S. citizen with Chinese ancestry to win a Gold Medal in any Winter Olympic event, accomplishing this feat on 7 February 2022. 


Time named her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world under the 'Pioneers' category on its annual list in 2022.


Eileen Gu was born on September 3, 2003, in San Francisco, California, United States,[9] to a Chinese first-generation immigrant mother, Yan Gu (Chinese: 谷燕; pinyin: Gǔ Yàn), and an American father. Chinese media refers to her father as a Harvard University graduate; Gu has declined to comment about him.[10] Her mother gave birth to Gu at the age of 40[11] and raised her as a single parent.[5] A member of the short-track speed skating team and a ski coach, her mother attended Peking University in the 1980s[12] for her undergraduate and master's degrees in chemical engineering.[13] Yan emigrated to the United States as a student in her twenties, enrolling at Auburn University and Rockefeller University. 


To pursue an MBA at Stanford University, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she enrolled Gu in ski lessons at Lake Tahoe and thereby, according to Gu, "accidentally created a pro skier."[14] Yan had a career working for U.S. investment banks and as a venture capitalist between China and California.

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