Snowboarding Superstar

Chloe Kim became a household name after winning a gold medal at the 2018 Olympics held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Her epic final half-pipe run was nearly perfect. She received a jaw-dropping score of 98.25 points out of 100. Her score was 10 points ahead of her nearest rival. The win made her the youngest Olympic half-pipe gold medalist at just 17 years old. “I don’t really care much about the score, I just wanted to do the best I could,” Kim said after the event.

This wasn’t her first big win. In 2015, Kim won her first gold at the X Games at age 14, making her the youngest gold medalist in the history of the X Games. Since then she has continued to bring home a slew of gold medals from other competitions. Kim was also the first female snowboarder to land back-to-back 1080s at the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix in 2016. In a 1080, the athlete makes three full rotations while in the air.

In 2018, snowboarder Chloe Kim won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Her final run on the U-shaped half-pipe was nearly perfect. She received a jaw-dropping score of 98.25 points out of 100. That put her 10 points ahead of her closest competitor. At 17, Kim was the youngest ever Olympic half-pipe gold medalist. “I don’t really care much about the score,” she said after the event. “I just wanted to do the best I could.”

This wasn’t her first big win. In 2015, when she was 14, Kim won gold at the X Games. That made her the youngest gold medalist in the competition’s history. Since then, she has brought home gold medals from many other competitions. In 2016, Kim participated in the U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix. She became the first female snowboarder to land back-to-back 1080s. In a 1080, the athlete makes three full rotations while in the air.