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 medal when she won gold in the women’s snowboard halfpipe at the age of 17 years. 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. \n', '

Kim was born in Long Beach, California and raised in nearby Torrance. Her parents are originally 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 4 years old at the southern California resort of Mountain High and she started competing at 6 as a member of Team Mountain High. She then trained in Valais, Switzerland, from 8 to 10 years old before returning to California and training at Mammoth Mountain. Kim joined up with U.S. Snowboarding in 2013.\n', '

While being too young to compete in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Kim earned silver in superpipe in the 2014 Winter X Games, coming behind Kelly Clark. In 2015, Chloe won Gold in the super pipe event in the Winter X Games beating Kelly Clark. With this win, at age 14, Kim became the youngest gold medalist until she lost this 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 thus the first such person to win back-to-back gold medals) at an X Games. 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. She scored a perfect 100 points, and is believed to be the second rider ever to do so, after Shaun White.\n', '

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