At the 2016
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 2024, Kim became the first woman to land a 1260 in competition history.
X Games While too young to compete in the
2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Kim earned a silver medal in
superpipe at 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. In 2025 at the X Games, Kim won her eighth gold medal in the superpipe, which gave her the most wins of any woman in the superpipe at the X Games, and tied her with
Shaun White for most wins of any person in the superpipe at the X Games.
2016 Winter Youth Olympics 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. Kim was nominated for the 2016
ESPYS award for Best Breakthrough Athlete.
2018 Winter Olympics 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 half-pipe score 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.
2022 Winter Olympics 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.
Laax Open Kim has five
Laax Open titles. On January 18, 2025 at the Laax Open, Kim became the first woman to land a double cork 1080 in a snowboard halfpipe competition, landing a cab double cork 1080.
2026 Winter Olympics A month before the
2026 Winter Olympics, Kim dislocated her shoulder while training in
Switzerland, casting doubt on whether she would be able to compete. She later confirmed that she would still be able to compete and the injury was not as bad as originally feared. Kim went on to win the silver medal in the
women's halfpipe event. Later she revealed that she would need to get surgery for her shoulder injury, as she did not have time to do so during the Olympics and surgery was the only way to fix it. ==In popular culture==