Chloe Kim

American snowboarder Chloe Kim was born, in Long Beach, Calif. She got her snowboarding start at age 4 on a local mountain when her father wanted to try the sport. She took to it right away, and began competing at age 6, winning a junior nationals competition just a year later. Although she was too young to compete in the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi (despite having scores that qualified her for the team), she won a silver medal in superpipe in the 2014 Winter X Games. In 2015 she took gold in the same event, becoming the youngest gold medalist in the history of the Winter X Games at that time. In 2016 she became the first person under age 16 to earn three gold medals at the X Games. That same year she became the first woman to land back-to-back 1080 spins in a snowboarding event, earning a perfect score. She became the first American woman to win a gold medal in snowboarding at the Winter Youth Olympic Games, earning the highest snowboarding score in Youth Olympic Games history at that time. She was chosen to be Team USA's flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games, becoming the first snowboarder selected for the honor at either the Olympic Winter Games or Youth Olympic Games for Team USA. She was nominated for the 2016 ESPYS award for Best Breakthrough Athlete, and in January 2018 she qualifed for the U.S. Olympic team, representing the U.S. at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. After arriving in PyeongChang, Kim took home a medal for the U.S. team, winning the gold in the ladies' halfpipe event. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Kim became the first woman to win two gold medals in halfpipe.