Chloe Kim

Chloe Kim (born April 23, 2000) is an American snowboarder. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women's snowboard halfpipe at 17 years old.[2] She is a four-time X Games gold medalist and the first woman to win two gold medals in snowboarding at the Winter Youth Olympic Games.[3][4] She is the current World, Olympic, Youth Olympic, and X Games champion in the halfpipe, and the first to win the title at all four major events.

Chloe Kim
Kim in 2017
Personal information
NationalityAmerican
Born (2000-04-23) April 23, 2000
Long Beach, California, U.S.
Chloe Kim
Hangul
Revised RomanizationKulloi Kim
McCune–ReischauerK'ŭlloi Kim
Birth name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationGim Seon
McCune–ReischauerKim Sŏn

Early life

Kim was born in Long Beach, California and raised in nearby Torrance.[5] Her parents are from South Korea. Kim's father quit his job to drive her to the mountains and also to be able to travel with her when she competes. He started her on a snowboard at age four at the southern California resort of Mountain High; she started competing at age six as a member of Team Mountain High.[6] She trained in Geneva, Switzerland[7] from ages eight to ten before returning to California and training at Mammoth Mountain. Kim joined the U.S. Snowboarding Team in 2013.[8]

Career

X Games

While too young to compete in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Kim earned a silver medal in superpipe in the 2014 Winter X Games behind Kelly Clark. In 2015, Chloe won Gold in the superpipe at the Winter X Games, besting Clark.[9] With this win, at age 14, Kim became the youngest gold medalist until she lost the record to Kelly Sildaru, who won gold in 2016 at the age of 13.[10][11] In the 2016 X Games, she became the first person under the age of 16 to win two gold medals (and also the first person to win back-to-back gold medals) at an X Games.[12][13] At that year's U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, she became the first woman to land back-to-back 1080 spins in a snowboarding competition.[13][5] She scored a perfect 100 points, and is believed to be the second rider ever to do so, after Shaun White.[14]

2016 Winter Youth Olympics
See also: 2016 Winter Youth Olympics

In 2016, Kim 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.[4] She was selected as Team USA's flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games, becoming the first snowboarder chosen to serve as flag bearer for Team USA at either the Olympic Winter Games or Youth Olympic Games.[15] Kim was nominated for the 2016 ESPYS award for Best Breakthrough Athlete.[16]

2018 Winter Olympics
See also: 2018 Winter Olympics

At Kim’s first Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, she won the gold medal in the Women's Halfpipe finals with Ricky Bower as her coach.[17] Her first score was 93.75 points, 8.5 points ahead of second place. Her last score in the halfpipe was close to a perfect score at 98.25 points. She was nearly 10 points ahead of Liu Jiayu, who placed 2nd.[18] Kim became the youngest woman to ever land two 1080-degree spins in a row at the Olympics.[19] At age 17 she became the youngest woman to ever win gold at the Olympics in the halfpipe, surpassing the past record holder, Kelly Clark, who was 18.[20] This record landed her a position on Time magazine's annual Time 100 list.[21]

Other

In 2018, she became the first woman to land a frontside double cork 1080 in halfpipe.[22]

Kim was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated following her Olympic gold medal win.[23][24] Her appearance on a special edition of the Kellogg's Corn Flakes box set a new record for "fastest-selling cereal box in Kellogg Company history."[25]

In 2018, Mattel began producing a Shero Barbie in her likeness in a new line of dolls highlighting inspiring women that also includes Amelia Earhart.[26] In February 2019, she was featured in Nike's "Dream Crazier" ad with Serena Williams, Simone Biles, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Megan Rapinoe, and other women athletes. The ad appeared during the 2019 Oscars.[27]

Awards and honors

In July 2018, Kim won three ESPYs for Best Female Athlete, Best Female Olympian, and Best Female Action Sports Athlete.[28]

Personal life

Kim is Korean American, being a first-generation American; her parents emigrated from South Korea. In 1982, her father arrived in the United States with just $800 cash and eventually earned a college degree in manufacturing engineering technology.[29] Kim has extended family living in South Korea, where she competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics. Her relatives, including her grandmother, watched her compete for the first time at the Olympics.[30] Kim stated: "I have this different opportunity because I'm Korean-American, but I'm riding for the States. ... I'm starting to understand that I can represent both countries."[29] She is trilingual, fluent in Korean, French, and English.[31] Kim was admitted to Princeton University's Class of 2022. After deferring the offer of admission until the Class of 2023, she stated she wants to study science.[32]

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
2018 Double Dare Herself / Contestant Episode: "Board Bombs vs. Team Over Your Head"
2018 Ridiculousness Herself Episode: "Chloe Kim"
2019 Charlie's Angels Angel Recruit Cameo appearance
2020 #KidsTogether: The Nickelodeon Town Hall Herself Television special

Music videos
Year Title Artist(s) Role Ref.
2018 "Girls Like You" (Original, Volume 2 and Vertical Video versions) Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B Herself (cameo) [33][34][35]
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gollark: ```pythonbot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='++', description="AutoBotRobot, the most useless bot on the planet.", case_insensitive=True)@bot.eventasync def on_message(message): print(message.content) await bot.process_commands(message)```is the particularly relevant bit.
gollark: It is not.
gollark: ++exec```python3q = "``" + "`"print(f"++exec\n{q}python3\nprint('hi')\n{q}")```
gollark: Hmm, didn't respond to itself.

See also

References
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  2. "ESPN Twitter". Mobile.twitter.com. February 12, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
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  18. "Snowboard | Results Ladies' Halfpipe Final Run 3 – Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games". www.olympic.org. Retrieved March 30, 2018.
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  23. Age of Miracles: Chloe Kim and Other Young Olympic Stars Are Set to Shine for Longer Than Ever Before MICHAEL ROSENBERG, Sports Illustrated, February 19, 2018
  24. Chloe Kim's Sports Illustrated Cover Outtakes: USA snowboarder Chloe Kim, who captured gold in PyeongChang, appears on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated. Here are the outtakes from Robert Beck's photo shoot with Kim. Sports Illustrated, February 20, 2018
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  27. "Serena Williams stars in Nike ad celebrating female athletes set to air during Oscars". The Washington Post. February 24, 2019.
  28. "ESPYS 2018 Winners: The Complete List". E! News. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  29. "Snowboard phenom Chloe Kim has a lot riding on the Winter Olympics". ESPN. February 6, 2018.
  30. "How Chloe Kim became the next Shaun White of the Olympics: 7 things to know". CBSSports.com. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
  31. Nate Clark. "Who is Chloe Kim?". NBC. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  32. Pinelli, Brian (2019-02-12). "Chloe Kim's Next Big Challenge: College". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
  33. Amatulli, Jenna. "Maroon 5, Cardi B's 'Girls Like You' Video Is a Star-Studded Dance Party". HuffPost. Archived from the original on May 31, 2018. Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  34. Glicksman, Josh (October 16, 2018). "Maroon 5 Releases New Version of 'Girls Like You' Music Video: Watch". Billboard. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  35. "Maroon 5 – Girls Like You (Vertical Video) featuring Cardi B". Spotify.
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