Chris Klug

Chris Klug, born on November 18, 1972, is a professional alpine snowboarder who received a liver transplant in 2000 to treat primary sclerosing cholangitis and then went on to compete in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, winning a bronze medal in the Parallel Giant Slalom. It was the first and so far only time a transplantee had competed in the Olympics, summer or winter. He is an alumnus of Deerfield Academy and released a book in 2004 titled To the Edge and Back: My Story from Organ Transplant Survivor to Olympic Snowboarder. In 2003 he started the Chris Klug Foundation, which promotes lifesaving organ and tissue donation, and he lives in Aspen, Colorado, and Sisters, Oregon, with his wife Melissa April and their two children.