While competing in the women’s snowboard halfpipe category at the X Games, Chloe Kim just made history by being the first woman to nail a 1260.
After making her debut at the 2014 X Games, Kim, who is now 23 years old, has successfully won her seventh X Games Aspen championship. The record amount of X Games Aspen championships that she has won is now tied with the record held by her coach Kelly Clark.
At the conclusion of her last run during the Friday finals, she executed a cab 1260 with complete control. Ahead of the move that broke the record, she had already won the championship, and she executed the maneuver as she was finishing her victory lap.
The statement that she made was reported by NBC Sports. “I really wanted to do that trick for a long time,” she stated. On the other hand, I am incredibly happy that I was able to set it down, even if I wish it had been a little bit cleaner.
Immediately after her historic landing on the halfpipe, the X Games announced Kim’s accomplishment on X (which was originally known as Twitter): “@ChloeKim wins her seventh #XGames SuperPipe gold, tying her mentor Kelly Clark for most in the discipline.” It was during her winning lap that she made history by being the first woman to ever nail a 1260 in a snowboard superpipe competition for women. #XGamesAspen”
She fell throughout both of her finals runs, which resulted in her placing fourth in the first event of the X Games, which took place last week.
When Kim won her first gold medal in halfpipe at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, she was just 17 years old. This victory marked the beginning of her meteoric rise to fame on a global scale.
In the month that has passed since the two-time Olympic gold medalist competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the athlete has already returned to competition. She was able to successfully land the 1260 during practice before to the 2022 competition; however, she was unable to properly try the feat during the competition itself.
A camp in Switzerland was where Kim started her preparations for the 2026 Olympic Games in October of 2023. The news that she has been the first woman to achieve a 1440 in training was relayed by her instructor, as reported by NBC Sports.
At the 2026 Olympics, Kim has the opportunity to compete for the chance to become the first woman to earn three gold medals in the sport of snowboarding. Her accomplishments would be comparable to those of fellow American snowboarder Shaun White, who has the distinction of being the first male snowboarder to win three gold medals in the Olympic Games.
