Chloe Kim

Chloe Kim
Medal record
Women's Snowboarding
Representing the  United States
Winter X Games
2016 Oslo SuperPipe
2016 Aspen SuperPipe
2015 Aspen SuperPipe
2014 Aspen SuperPipe
2016 Winter Youth Olympics
2016 Lillehammer Halfpipe
2016 Lillehammer Slopestyle

Chloe Kim (Korean: 김선, born April 23, 2000) is an elite American snowboarder, currently sponsored by Target. While being too young to compete in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Kim earned silver in superpipe in the 2014 Winter X Games, coming behind Kelly Clark. In 2015 Chloe won Gold in the super pipe event in the Winter X Games beating Kelly Clark.[1] With this win, at age 14, Kim became the youngest gold medalist until she lost this record to Kelly Sildaru who won gold in 2016 at the age of 13.[2][3] In the 2016 X Games, she became the first person under the age of 16 to win three gold medals (and thus the first such person to win back-to-back gold medals) at an X Games.[4][5] Also in 2016, at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, she became the first woman to land back-to-back 1080 spins in a snowboarding competition.[5] Also in 2016, she became the first American woman to win a gold medal in snowboarding at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, and earned the highest snowboarding score in Youth Olympic Games history at the time.[6] She was selected as Team USA’s flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games, thus becoming the first snowboarder chosen to serve as flag bearer for Team USA at either the Olympic Winter Games or Youth Olympic Games.[7] Kim was nominated for the 2016 ESPYS award for Best Breakthrough Athlete [8]

References

  1. ↑ Scott WilloughbyThe Denver Post (January 25, 2014). "Kelly Clark wins superpipe, and Chloe Kim, 13, earns silver". The Denver Post. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ "X Games on Twitter". Twitter.
  3. ↑ Oliver Macklin (31 January 2016). "Kelly Sildaru, 13, becomes youngest athlete ever to win Winter X Games gold". Washington Post.
  4. ↑ "2016 A Year Of Firsts For X Games Snowboarder Chloe Kim". espnW.
  5. 1 2 Charles Lam. "Chloe Kim Becomes First Woman to Land Two 1080 Spins, Wins U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix". NBC News.
  6. ↑ "Led By Teen Sensation Chloe Kim, Team USA Wins Three Snowboarding Medals at Youth Olympics". Team USA.
  7. ↑ "Chloe Kim Selected As Team USA Flag Bearer For Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games". Team USA.
  8. ↑ "List of 2016 ESPYS Nominees". ESPN MediaZone. Retrieved 18 July 2016.


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