Team USA Olympian Chloe Kim has won an ESPY Award for the Best Female Athlete.
According to Bleacher Report, Olympic snowboarder and gold medalist Chloe Kim has won the ESPY Award for the Best Female Athlete.
The ESPY (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly) Award is an annual award that commemorates individual and team athletic achievement.
Fellow finalists Sylvia Fowles, Mikaela Shiffrin and Julie Ertz were nominated also nominated for the award.
Kim won gold in SuperPipe at the X Games in Aspen and became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding medal. She was only 17 when she won gold in the women’s snowboard halfpipe in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
The Korean American pulled off tricks including as a frontside 1080, McTwist and frontside inverted 720, cruising past much of the field.
In May, Kim wrote an emotional letter to her mother Boran Yun Kim for Mother’s Day, bringing her to tears.
