Kim, Chloe (2000-…), is an American snowboarder. She became the youngest woman to win a snowboarding gold medal in the Winter Olympic Games. Kim won the gold medal in the women’s halfpipe event at the 2018 Winter Olympics held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, when she was 17 years old. The halfpipe is an acrobatic event performed in a deep trough. Kim also won the gold medal in the women’s halfpipe event at the 2022 Winter Olympics held in Beijing, China.
Kim has also gained international success in slopestyle events. In slopestyle, competitors perform on special courses that feature various obstacles. Kim was too young to compete in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. However, at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, she won gold medals in both the halfpipe and slopestyle. She thus became the first American woman to win a snowboarding gold medal at the Youth Olympic competition.
Kim had previously earned international recognition for her performances in the X Games, an action sports competition held in the summer and winter and modeled on the Olympics. She won a silver medal in the superpipe, a variation of the halfpipe, at the 2014 Winter X Games. She won the X Games gold medal in the superpipe in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2024. In 2016, Kim also won a superpipe gold medal in the European X Games. That same year, she became the first female to score a perfect 100 in the superpipe at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix.
Kim was born on April 23, 2000, in Long Beach, California. Her parents had immigrated to the United States from South Korea. Kim began snowboarding at the age of 4 and began competing as a member of Team Mountain High in California at the age of 6. She trained in Switzerland from the ages of 8 to 10 and then returned to the United States. In the fall of 2019, Kim enrolled at Princeton University, in New Jersey. She took a leave of absence from her studies in 2020 to concentrate on snowboarding.
