Gold Cup
Gold Cup may refer to:
In art and archaeology:
- Royal Gold Cup, 14th century French cup in the British Museum
- Rillaton Gold Cup, late Neolithic, from Rillaton Barrow in England
- Ringlemere Cup, Bronze Age from England
In horse racing:
- The Gold Cup, horse race run at Ascot Racecourse during June
- Awapuni Gold Cup, major horse race run under weight-for-age conditions held in Awapuni, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Ayr Gold Cup, flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a straight 6 furlongs
- Cheltenham Gold Cup, highlight of the Cheltenham Festival held on the last day (the Friday)
- Geraldton Gold Cup, one of Western Australia's most popular races
- Gold Cup Steeplechase
- Gold Cup Vase or Queen's Vase, a Group 3 flat horse race in Great Britain which is open to three-year-old thoroughbreds
- Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap, Grade II race for thoroughbred horses run at Hawthorne Race Course each year
- Hollywood Gold Cup, Grade I stakes race for thoroughbred horses inaugurated in 1938 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California
- Jockey Club Gold Cup, horse race
- Paddy Power Gold Cup, Grade 3 National Hunt horse race in the United Kingdom for five-year-old and above horses
- Tattersalls Gold Cup, horse race run at The Curragh, Ireland in May
- Virginia Gold Cup, Steeplechase run on the first Saturday in May
In association football:
- Copa de Oro (Spanish: Gold Cup), South American association football competition between the club winners of the Copa Libertadores de América, the Supercopa Sudamericana, the Copa CONMEBOL, and the Supercopa Masters
- CONCACAF Gold Cup, association football competition between nations from North and Central America and from the Caribbean
- CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup, women's association football competition
- Gold Cup (Northern Ireland), defunct association football competition
- Aga Khan Gold Cup, defunct association football competition
In motorsport:
- Oulton Park International Gold Cup, an annual non-Championship Formula One race of the 1950s and '60s, recently reinstated for historic F1 cars
- Gold Cup (motorsport), an annual hydroplane racing cup on the Detroit River since 1904
In sailing:
- Several unrelated racing events
- Scandinavian Gold Cup, annual nation race of 5.5 metre class yachts.
- Dragon Gold Cup, established in 1937 for Dragon Class one-design yachts.
- Finn Gold Cup, annual World Championship event for Finn dinghies.
- King Edward VII Gold Cup, raced in Bermuda with International One Design class yachts.
- Nordic Folkboat Gold Cup, established in 1963 for Nordic Folkboat class one-design yachts.
In contract bridge:
- Gold Cup (bridge), the premier open competition in the United Kingdom
See also
- Cup of Gold (novel), 1929 novel by John Steinbeck
- Cup of Gold, Solandra maxima, tropical tree-climbing plant