Born in 2000, Chloe Kim is a second generation Korean American who started snowboarding when she was 4 years old. At the 2018 Winter Olympics Kim became known for being the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal. However, even before the PyeongChang Olympics Kim was breaking records; in 2015 when she was 14 years old she was the youngest ever to win a gold medal at that year's X Games, and at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games she was the first American woman to win gold and earned the highest snowboarding score.