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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 ]
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.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Jacobellis made her second Olympic snowboard cross final. After leading most of the way, she missed the podium by .003 seconds, finishing in 4th place. [15] In her fifth Olympics, Jacobellis finally became the Olympic champion in snowboard cross at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. This was the ...
Chloe Kim is 23 years old and already has a mighty compelling argument as the greatest female snowboarder to ever hit the halfpipe. The two-time Olympic gold medalist won her seventh career X ...
American snowboarding star Chloe Kim won her second-straight Olympic halfpipe gold medal with a dazzling performance in Beijing.
At the 2021–22 FIS Snowboard World Cup, only two big air events were held before the Olympics. Gasser was second in both, and was leading the ranking, followed by Reira Iwabuchi and Murase. Laurie Blouin was the 2021 world champion , with Sadowski-Synnott and Miyabi Onitsuka being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively.
Hediger, 26, competed at the Beijing Games in the women's snowboard cross and the mixed team version of the same event. Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger dies in avalanche, aged 26 Skip to ...
The women's snowboard cross competition in snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February, at the Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou. [1] Lindsey Jacobellis of the United States became the Olympic champion.