Chloe Kim Soars to New Heights | Woman of the Year 2022
glamour.comBy Photography by Chloe Kim—the 22-year-old **snowboarding phenom—**needs little introduction. She’s been the in snowboarding circles for more than six years, the first athlete in the sport’s history to take home all four major snowboarding titles—gold in the Olympics, the Youth Olympics, the FIS Snowboarding World Championships, and the X Games.
She is the Simone Biles of snow, a genre-redefining athlete with air awareness that leaves judges’ mouths agog every time she drops into the halfpipe.
she became the first woman to land back-to-back 1080s in competition—that’s three full rotations, accomplished by launching herself a stomach-churning 30 feet in the air above the icy slopes.
When she won gold at the PyeongChang Olympics in 2018—then just 17—she became the youngest woman in the sport’s history to take home Olympic gold.
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