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{{Short description|American skeleton racer (born 1980)}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name             = Tristan Gale
| image            = 2002 Olympic Gold medalist visits Yokota (3) (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Gale in 2021
| fullname         = 
| birth_date       = {{birth-date and age|August 10, 1980}}<ref name=sports-reference>{{cite web |title=Tristan Gale |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/tristan-gale-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418020751/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ga/tristan-gale-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |website=sports-reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=6 June 2015}}</ref>
| birth_place      = [[Ruidoso, New Mexico]]<ref name=sports-reference />
| headercolor      = lightsteelblue
| height           = 5 ft 1+1/2 in<ref name=sports-reference />
| weight           = 115 lb<ref name=sports-reference />
| show-medals      = yes
| medaltemplates   = 
{{MedalSport | Women's [[Skeleton (sport)|skeleton]] }}
{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Olympic Games]] }}
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{{MedalGold | [[2002 Winter Olympics|2002 Salt Lake City]] | [[Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's|Women]] }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[FIBT World Championships|World Championships]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[FIBT World Championships 2003|2003 Nagano]] | Women }}
}}

'''Tristan Gale''' (born August 10, 1980) is an American [[skeleton (sport)|skeleton racer]] who competed from 2001 to 2006. At the [[2002 Winter Olympics]], she became the inaugural women's skeleton champion. Gale dyed her hair with streaks of red, white and blue for the 2002 Olympics. During the 2002–2003 season, Tristan won a second gold medal on her home track in Salt Lake during a World Cup stop. She remains undefeated at the [[Utah Olympic Park bobsleigh/luge/skeleton track|track]] in Utah since the Olympics.

Gale also won a bronze medal in the women's skeleton event at the [[FIBT World Championships 2003|2003 FIBT World Championships]] in [[Nagano (city)|Nagano]]. She retired before the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] in [[Turin]]. Gale's best overall seasonal finish in the [[List of Skeleton World Cup champions|Skeleton World Cup]] was third in 2002–3.

A native of [[Ruidoso, New Mexico]], Gale lives in [[Salt Lake City]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050104231752/http://www.olympic-usa.org/1413_28528.htm 20 Questions with Tristan Gale]
* [http://www.sportresult.com/sports/bs/db/biography.asp?p_id=100691&nat=&sport=&sex=&season=&stat=&venue=&events= FIBT profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071124051538/http://www.sportresult.com/sports/bs/db/biography.asp?p_id=100691&nat=&sport=&sex=&season=&stat=&venue=&events= |date=2007-11-24 }}
* [http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Olympic-Athletes/All-Athletes/Athletes-GA-to-GM/-Tristan-GALE-/ IOC profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124115624/http://www.olympic.org/en/content/Olympic-Athletes/All-Athletes/Athletes-GA-to-GM/-Tristan-GALE-/ |date=2010-01-24 }}
* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105170232/http://sports123.com/ske/wwc.html |date=mdy |title=List of women's skeleton World Cup champions since 1997 (sports123.com)}}
* [http://www.tristangale.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.thatoneplace.net/tristan/ Thatoneplace.net profile]
* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060325102137/http://www.usolympicteam.com/26_1020.htm |date=mdy |title=Tristan Gale at the United States Olympic Committee (usolympicteam.com)}}
* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208213056/http://sports123.com/ske/wo.html |date=mdy |title=Women's skeleton Olympic medalists since 2002 (sports123.com)}}
* {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105170507/http://sports123.com/ske/ww.html |date=mdy |title=Women's skeleton world championship medalists since 2000 (sports123.com)}}

==External links==
* {{IBSF}}
* {{Olympics.com profile}}
* {{Olympedia}}

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[[Category:1980 births]]
[[Category:American female skeleton racers]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for the United States in skeleton]]
[[Category:Olympic skeleton racers for the United States]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Salt Lake City]]
[[Category:Skeleton racers at the 2002 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:People from Ruidoso, New Mexico]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in skeleton]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics]]
[[Category:21st-century American sportswomen]]

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