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:
- Ascot 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
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, best-known of which is perhaps Scandinavian Gold Cup, annual nation race of 5.5 metre class yachts.
In contract bridge:
- Gold Cup (bridge), the premier open competition in the United Kingdom
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—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
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