Choi Ga-on

Choi Ga-on is a South Korean snowboarder born on 3 November 2008 who competes in the halfpipe. She won gold in the halfpipe at the 2022 FIS Snowboarding Junior World Championships and, in January 2023 at the Winter X Games XXVII, won the SuperPipe event, breaking Chloe Kim's record as the youngest X Games snowboard halfpipe gold medalist at 14 years and two months. She won the halfpipe on her World Cup debut on 16 December 2023 with 92.75 points. At the 2026 Winter Olympics she won the halfpipe with 90.25 points despite a leg injury, defeating two-time Olympic champion Chloe Kim, and became the first South Korean to win Olympic gold in snowboarding and, at 17 years and 101 days, the youngest Olympic snowboarding gold medalist.