Chloe Kim ( cor. 김선 ; born April 23, 2000 ) - American snowboarder , champion of the 2018 Winter Olympics in the halfpipe discipline , world champion of 2019, four-time winner of the Winter Extreme Games , and also two-time champion of the Winter Youth Olympic Games of 2016 . The games in Phenchhang were Kim's debut at the adult level, she became the youngest winner in the history of games in snowboard competitions.
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| general information | |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Date of Birth | April 23, 2000 (19 years) |
| Place of Birth | Long Beach , California , USA |
| Growth | 157 cm |
| Career | |
| Discipline | Slopestyle , Halfpipe |
| In the national team | 2013 — n. at. |
| Status | is competing |
| results | |
| Olympic Games |  ( 2018 ) |
| Last updated: February 13, 2018 | |
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Biography
Kim was born in Long Beach , California, in a family of immigrants from South Korea . Kim's father began to teach her to snowboard at the age of 4 at the local mountain resort of Mountain Hai, in the first competition she took part in 6 years. Then from 8 to 10 years old, she trained at Valais before returning to California to study at Mammoth Mountain. Kim joined the country's united team in 2013.
Kim is the second generation of the Korean-American family. The family still lives in South Korea, where the 2018 Winter Olympics were held. She is fluent in Korean, French and English.
Sports career
X Games
Being too young to compete at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Kim earned silver at the 2014 Winter X-Games, second only to Kelly Clark . In 2015, Chloe won the gold in the halfpipe, beating an eminent athlete. With this victory, at the age of 14, Kim became the youngest gold medalist, until she lost the record because of the victory of Kelly Sildaru, who won the gold in 2016 at the age of 13. In the 2016 X-Games, she became the first person under the age of 16 who won two gold medals. In the United States in the same year at the Grand Prix, she became the first woman to complete a 1080 degree turn. She scored a perfect 100 points and is considered the second rider ever to do it, after Sean White .
Winter Youth Olympic Games 2016
In 2016, she became the first American girl to win a gold medal in snowboarding at the Winter Youth Olympic Games , and earned the highest score in the history of the Youth Olympic Games. In these competitions, Kim was chosen as the standard bearer of the US team for the opening ceremony of the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games , thus becoming the first snowboarder chosen as the standard bearer for the US team at the Winter Olympics or the Youth Olympic Games. Kim was nominated in 2016 for the award for best athlete breakthrough.
Olympics 2018
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Kim took the gold in the women's halfpipe final, leaving all her competitors far behind.