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Chloe Kim (born April 23, 2000) is an American snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women's snowboard halfpipe at 17 years old.
Snowboarding is an Olympic sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. [1] Snowboarding was one of five new sports or disciplines added to the Winter Olympic programme between 1990 and 2002, and was the only one not to have been a previous medal or demonstration event. [ 2 ]
Snowboarding is a sport at the Winter Olympic Games.It was first included in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. [1] Snowboarding was one of five new sports or disciplines added to the Winter Olympic program between 1992 and 2002, and was the only one not to have been a previous medal or demonstration event. [2]
Queralt Castellet of Spain won the silver medal and Sena Tomita of Japan the bronze, the first Olympic medals for both of them. The 2018 silver medalist, Liu Jiayu, qualified at the Olympics, but the bronze medalist, Arielle Gold, did not qualify. At the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, only three halfpipe events were held before the Olympics.
Shannon Dunn-Downing (born November 26, 1972) is an American snowboarder and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal in the halfpipe event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, becoming the first American woman to win a medal in snowboarding. [1] She finished 5th at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Jamie Louise Anderson (born September 13, 1990) is an American professional snowboarder.She won the gold medal in the inaugural Women's Slopestyle Event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and repeated the feat at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, making her the first female snowboarder to win more than one Olympic gold medal.
In May 2014, then aged 16, Ormerod became the first female snowboarder to land a double cork 1080, one of the most complex manoeuvres in snowboarding, which involves three rotations and two inverted flips. [8] [9] [10] In the 2018 Winter Olympics, she was due to compete in the slopestyle and big air snowboarding events. [4]
Hannah Teter (born January 27, 1987) is an American snowboarder.She is an Olympic champion, having won the gold medal in the halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy and silver at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. [2]