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Choi Ga-on (15, Sehwa Girls' Middle School), a rising star in Korean snowboarding, enjoyed the joy of becoming the youngest ever champion at the X Games Super Pipe, an extreme sports event held in the United States.



On the 29th (Korean time), Choi Ga-on took first place out of eight contestants at the 27th X Games Women's Superpipe event held at the Buttermilk Ski Resort in Aspen, Colorado, USA.



Choi Ga-on, the first Korean snowboarder invited to participate in the event, vomited her spirits by winning a gold medal in her first appearance.



The X Games is an extreme sports event hosted by ESPN, an American sports media, and is held every year in winter and summer.



Winter competitions include skiing, snowboarding, slopestyle, and big air Olympic events, and superpipe is a kind of halfpipe, an official Olympic event.



Gaon Choi, the youngest of the eight female athletes in this Super Pipe event, made a strong impression by rising to the top in her own adult debut.



In particular, Choi Ga-on, who was born on November 3, 2008 and is now less than 14 years and 3 months old, has also held the 'youngest win record' in the X Games, which was held by Chloe Kim (USA), the current women's snowboard halfpipe player. Changed it.



Chloe Kim, born to Korean parents, won the women's superpipe championship at the X Games in January 2015, when she was 14 years and 9 months old.



Chloe Kim, who made her presence known through this, has since achieved two consecutive gold medals in the women's halfpipe at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.



Choi Ga-on won the women's halfpipe championship at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Park and Pipe Junior World Championships in March last year, and she was selected as a national team member in May and established herself as a next-generation prospect.



It is also part of the ski and snowboard team established at the end of last year by Lotte Group, the chairman of the Korea Ski Association, to nurture next-generation medalists in snow sports.



In the X Games, one of the best events in extreme sports that her eminent athletes, including Chloe Kim, have gone through, she achieved her first appearance and even won the championship. revealed.



In the match, he succeeded in the 1,080-degree technique of three laps in the air and the 900-degree combo technique of two and a half laps in the last attempt out of a total of four, beating Maddy Maslow (USA) and others.



Choi Ga-on's management company, All That Sports, also reported that he was the only female player who participated in this competition to succeed in the 'Switch Back Nine' technique, in which he floats in the air in the opposite direction and turns two and a half times.



Choi Ga-on said, "I'm happy to win her adult debut. I'm very happy to be able to reap the results of my efforts so far in the world's best competition, the X Games."



Having been invited to the Dew Tour, a world-class extreme sports event to be held next month in Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA, he said, "I will continue to train like I have been working hard so that I can get good results in the Dew Tour."



(Photo = Provided by All That Sports, Yonhap News)