Chloe Kim
Chloe Kim was born in Long Beach, California, United States on April 23rd, 2000 and is the Snowboarder. At the age of 24, Chloe Kim biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Chloe Kim (born April 23, 2000) is an American snowboarder.
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 at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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.
She is the current World, Olympia, Youth Olympic, and X Games champion in the halfpipe, and the first to win the championship at all three major tournaments.
Early life
Kim was born in Long Beach, California, on April 23, 2000, and raised in nearby Torrance. Erica and Tracy are her older sisters. Her parents are from South Korea. Kim's father started snowboarding at age four at Mountain High in southern California; she began competing at age six as a member of Team Mountain High. She spent third and fourth grade in Geneva, Switzerland, where her aunt lived, before returning to California and training at Mammoth Mountain. She is fluent in French, English, and Korean. Kim's dad left his job to bring her to the mountains and then be able to travel with her when she competes. Chloe Kim attended Dana Middle School. In 2013, Kim joined the US Snowboarding Team.
Personal life
Kim is a second-generation Korean-American; her parents, Boran Yun Kim and Jong Jin Kim, emigrated from South Korea during the country's totalitarian period. Her father began with just $800 in cash and worked minimum wage jobs, eventually earning a college degree in manufacturing engineering technology at El Camino College. He resigned from his career to help his daughter pursue her snowboarding dream.
Kim has extended family in South Korea, where she competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics. For the first time at the Olympics, her relatives, as well as her grandmother, watched her compete. Kim said, "I have this unique opportunity because I'm Korean-American, but I'm racing for the United States." ... "I'm starting to understand that I will represent both countries." Kim was accepted to Princeton University in 2018, but the college did not announce him until 2019. She intends to study science.
Despite being born in the United States and having consistently represented the country on international stage, Kim said, up to 30 a day, as far back as she was age 13. People would often discount her achievements because she was Asian, as well as saying "go back to China" for her black American girls on the team.
She has also spoke out about the increase of anti-Asian hate crime and violence in the region since the COVID-19 pandemic, noting that she is primarily concerned about her parents' safety. When she goes outdoors to do her errands, she also avoids crowded places in general, she said she'll always carry a knife, pepper spray, and tasers.
Career
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. 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. 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. At that year's U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix, Kim became the first woman to land back-to-back 1080 spins in a snowboarding competition. She scored a perfect 100 points and is the second rider ever to do so, after Shaun White.
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. 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. Kim was nominated for the 2016 ESPYS award for Best Breakthrough Athlete.
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. Her first score was 93.75 points, which was 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 second. Kim became the youngest woman to ever land two 1080-degree spins in a row at the Olympics. 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 had won the gold when she was 19. This record landed Kim a position on Time magazine's annual Time 100 list.
Kim became a two-time Olympian when she competed at her second consecutive Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. Kim entered the women's halfpipe event. She successfully defended her Olympic title, thus becoming the first female snowboarder to win back-to-back gold medals at the snowboard halfpipe event.
After qualifying for the final in first place with a score of 87.75, achieved in her first run, Kim won the event with a score of 94.00, also achieved in her first run. She used her additional two runs in the final to attempt a new trick, but in both attempts was unable to stick the landing. As a result, her scores for the second and third runs were low (27.00 and 26.25 respectively) and thus discarded, with the score from her first run counted to secure the Olympic title.