Choi Ga On

Choi ga-on (born 3 november 2008) is a south korean snowboarder. Choi competed at the 2022 fis snowboarding junior world championships where she won a gold medal in the halfpipe event. 6 hours agochoi ga-on clinched korea’s first olympic gold medal in snowboarding on thursday, dethroning her role model, two-time olympic champion chloe kim, in the women’s halfpipe final held.

8 hours agosouth korean teenage sensation gaon choi returned from a first-run crash to spoil mentor chloe kim's olympic halfpipe three-peat thursday night in an epic snowboard shocker under the. 5 hours agokorea’s rising women’s snowboard halfpipe star choi ga-on, 17, pulled off a come-from-behind victory at the 2026 milan–cortina d’ampezzo winter olympics, capturing the nation’s first. 2 days agochoi ga-on confidently passed her olympic debut.

Choi ga-on (sehwa girls’ high school) scored 82.25 points in the women’s halfpipe snowboard preliminary round of the 2026 milan-cortina. 3 days agofour-time world cup halfpipe winner choi gaon, who is just 17-years-old, became the first korean female athlete to win an olympic medal in snow sports. Choi ga-on, 18, collapsed on the olympic final stage.

8 hours agoseventeen-year-old choi ga-on denies american great chloe kim snowboarding history as she brushes off an early fall to win winter olympic halfpipe gold. 12 (yonhap) -- choi gaon captured the women's halfpipe snowboard title at the milan-cortina winter olympics on thursday for south korea's first gold medal.