Eileen Gu

She scored 1580 out of 1600 on her SAT.

Gu landed a double cork 1620, her first attempt in competition.

She was the second woman to land the trick and the first woman to land a left-turn 1620; Tess Ledeux first successfully completed a double cork 1620 on 21 January 2022, at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado, Go landed it again in her first run of the big air final at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Gu Won the silver medal in the slopestyle event.

She won a second gold medal in the women's freeski halfpipe competition, becoming the first freestyle skier to win three medals at a Winter Olympics.

She was awarded the Best Breakthrough Athlete and Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Awards at the 2022 ESPY Awards.

Eileen Feng Gu (born September 3, 2003), also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing, is a freestyle skier.

Eileen Gu was born on September 3, 2003, in San Francisco, California, United States.

Her mother, Yan Gu, is a first-generation Chinese immigrant.

Her father is American.

Her maternal grandfather was the chief electrical engineer of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China.

Yan emigrated to the United States after receiving a master's degree in chemical engineering at Peking University, where she was a member of the short-track speed skating team.

She moved to the Bay Area to attend Stanford University Graduate School of Business and worked in finance after earning her MBA.

Yan raised her daughter as a single mother in San Francisco's Sea Cliff neighborhood.

At 3, Gu began skiing in Lake Tahoe, where Yan once worked as part-time ski instructor.

She joined the Northstar California Resort free-ski team at eight, and won her first national championship at nine.

Gu attended primary and middle school at the Katherine Delmar Burke School and went to high school at San Francisco University High.

Every summer, she attended cram school in Bejing for mathematics.

In 2018, he became the technical coach guide to the Chinese national team for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Her personal coach for the 2022 Olympics was Misra Noto Torniainen, the former coach of the Swiss freeski team.

Torniainen had coached Olympic medalists Sarah Höfflin and Mathilde Gremaud for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

At the 2021 Winter X Games, Gu Won a bronze medal in Big Air and two gold medals in SuperPipe and Slopestyle, becoming the first rookie to win a gold medal in Women's Ski SuperPipe, the first rookie to medal in three events, and the first athlete representing China to win a gold medal at the X Games.

At the 2024 Winter X Games, Gu Won gold in SuperPipe despite being injured on her right hip during the X Games Slopestyle training.

She wrote "Pain is Temporary" on her hand, and showed it to the cameras during the finals.

Due to the pain, she did not participate in Slopestyle.

Gu competed at the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships 2021, winning two gold medals in Freeski Halfpipe and Freeski Slopestyle and a bronze medal in Freeski Big Air.

Gu became the first freeskier to win two golds at the FIS Freeski World Championship.

She competed without poles for the first time due to a broken hand, having fractured a finger and tearing the UCL in her thumb.

At the 2022 Winter Olympics, Gu became the youngest gold medalist in freestyle skiing, winning the big air event, the first to be held at the Olympics.

Born in the United States, she has competed for China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air events since 2019.

At age 18, Gu became the youngest Olympic champion in freestyle skiing after winning gold medals in big air and halfpipe, and a silver medal in slopestyle, at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

She is the first freestyle skier to win three medals at a single Winter Olympics.

Her decision to compete for China was controversial, drawing international attention.

Time named her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world under the 'Pioneers' category on its annual list in 2022.

Forbes listed her as the second-highest earning female athlete in the world in 2023.

Gu earned early admittance to Stanford University, her mother's alma mater, in December 2020.

She entered the freshman class in 2022.

the same year she was presented as a debutante at Le Bal des débutantes in Paris.

In 2021, Gu became the first woman to land a forward double cork 1440 in competition history.

Gu's coaches have included Jamie Melton, head coach of the Chinese National Slopestyle and Big Air Training Team for the 2022 Winter Olympics, and Brad Prosser, who met Gu when she was ten.