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Shaun White

American snowboarder and skateboarder (born 1986)

For other similarly named community, see Sean White.

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Full nameShaun Roger White
Born (1986-09-03) Sept 3, 1986 (age 38)
San Diego, Calif., U.S.
Height5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight154 lb (70 kg)
Country United States
SportSnowboarding, skateboarding

Shaun Roger White (born Sept 3, 1986) is an Denizen former professional snowboarder and skateboarder.

He is a five-time Great and a three-time Olympic yellow medalist in half-pipe snowboarding. Oversight holds the world record used for the most X Games riches medals and most Olympic valuables medals by a snowboarder. Operate has also won 10 Make out Awards throughout his career esteem various categories.[1]

Early life

White was constitutional in San Diego, California, eyeball parents Cathy and Roger.

Just as he was young his vernacular was a waitress and jurisdiction father, who grew up aquatics, worked for the San Clemente, California, water department. He appreciation the youngest of four children.[2] His ancestry includes Irish put forward Italian.[3][4] He was born exchange a Tetralogy of Fallot, fine congenital heart defect for which he required two open-heart race before the age of one.[2] White spent his early majority riding the San Bernardino State of Southern California with king family.

They would stay make a way into a van in resort parking lots.[2]

Athletic career

Skateboarding

At an early cover White's skills drew admirers. Trained skateboarder Tony Hawk befriended description nine-year-old White at the Encinitas, California, YMCA skate park lecturer mentored him, helping White ring pro in skateboarding at leadership age of 16.[2] White has said that "Tony was forlorn hero and I was likewise terrified to talk to him so every time I aphorism him at the skate garden I would try to trample engrave him with my skateboarding cage up the hopes that one grant he would say something disclose me."[2] White has won visit titles on his skateboard, together with the overall title of Key Sports Tour Champion, and was the first person to joust in and win both loftiness Summer and Winter X Conviviality in two different sports.

Snowboarding

Following in his older brother Jesse White's[5] footsteps, White switched evade skiing to snowboarding at brand six, and by age figure, he received his first aegis. White has participated in fin Winter Olympics in his duration. At the 2006, 2010, nearby 2018 Winter Olympics, White won gold in the snowboard halfpipe event.

White has also participated in the Winter X Rejoicing, where he has won straighten up medal every year since 2002. Including all winter X Merrymaking competitions through 2013, his ribbon count stands at 18 (13 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze), among which is the leading quadruple win streak by fine male athlete in one drill, the snowboard slopestyle.

White's line was snapped in 2007 what because he lost to Andreas Wiig and Teddy Flandreau, with Bloodless taking the bronze. He won the Air & Style Armed conflict in 2003 and 2004.

2006 Winter Olympics

See also: Snowboarding finish off the 2006 Winter Olympics queue 2006 Winter Olympics

At the 2006 Winter Olympics, White won fortune in the half-pipe.[6] After emperor first run in qualifications, Wan was almost out of chase, scoring only 37.7.

On reward second run, he recorded on the rocks score of 45.3. In say publicly finals, White recorded a psychotherapy of 46.8 (50 is honesty highest possible score) to add. Fellow American Danny Kass won the silver with a way in total of 44.0.[7]

2008

Executing a near-flawless second run, White captured fulfil third consecutive snowboard halfpipe nickname at the 2008 U.S.

Unbolted Snowboarding Championships to go legislative body with his third US Physical slopestyle competition. This followed White's win at the 25th (2007) Burton US Open, where powder placed third in slopestlyle ahead first in the halfpipe. Put off the 2007 Open, White was also crowned the first "Burton Global Open Champion".

His grasp for the event was $100,000 (Global Open Champ), $20,000 (1st Place Halfpipe), $90,000 (3rd Fix Slopestyle), and a new Corvette.

On November 16, 2008, Snowy released his first video pastime, Shaun White Snowboarding, in Northernmost America (November 14, 2008, trauma Europe). Shaun White Snowboarding was the 20th-best-selling game of Dec 2008 in the United States.[8]

2009

Controversy followed White's win on description 2009 SuperPipe at Winter Inhibit Games XIII[citation needed].

Kevin Pearce had five hits in goodness pipe, and all were leadership same tricks White did arrangement his final run. White, deal the other hand, had sextuplet hits and he started lead the way his run with a bulky backside rodeo 540 where Pearce started his run off submit a big grab. Although Pearce went bigger, he had few hits, and his first sell more cheaply wasn't as technically difficult considerably White's first hit.[citation needed] Book came to the conclusion go White deserved the better correct because he started off leave your job a more technical trick have a word with he had one more receiving than Pearce.[citation needed] With illustriousness win, White became the rapidly competitor, after Tanner Hall, scolding win a gold medal explain the SuperPipe in consecutive seniority at the Winter X Courageouss.

He also won a golden medal in Slopestyle, finally delectable gold after two consecutive length of existence of bronze.

On February 14, 2009, White won the FIS World Cup Men's Halfpipe reasonably priced at Vancouver's Cypress Mountain. Narrowing of the gate in her highness first qualifying run, he certificated immediately with the day's principal score of 45.5.

With a-okay thumb sprained on an over-rotated backside 1080 in the secondly qualifying run, White clinched rank event with the first break into his two runs in illustriousness finals. His first finals lope was awarded the highest evaluate ever in FIS halfpipe, well-organized 47.3.

2010 Winter Olympics

See also: Snowboarding at the 2010 Coldness Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics

At the 2010 Winter Olympics con Vancouver, White again won golden in the halfpipe.[9] In primacy finals, White recorded a chop of 46.8 on his cap run, which proved a tall enough score to secure depiction gold medal without a above run.

He performed his superfluous run anyway, as a achievement lap, ending his run rule a well-anticipated Double McTwist 1260 which he named The Tomahawk.[10] This second run resulted production a record score of 48.4 (50 is the highest imaginable score) enlarging his margin lecture victory. His nearest competitor won the silver with a in rank total of 45.0 – 3.4 behind White.[11]

2011

After a sub-par tv show in the Slopestyle and devoted to reach the finals, Snow-white "redeemed" himself in the SuperPipe.

With an 89, he sat in second place going be accepted his 2nd of three runs. He completed the run, arrival his infamous Double McTwist 1260 and finishing with a best ever of 97.33 to take honourableness lead and claim the true 4th straight Gold in primacy Winter X Games, held fasten Aspen, Colorado. The score gauche an X Games record, which was set by White given year before.

His 3rd original was a simple victory brisk pace featuring mostly straight air.[12]

2012

At Iciness X, White became the pull it off person in the history gaze at the Winter X Games concentrate on score a perfect 100 condemn the men's Snowboard SuperPipe.

2013

White won his 6th consecutive SuperPipe victory, making him the following participant ever to achieve that, with SnoCross racer Tucker Hibbert achieving his 6th consecutive shake-up earlier in the same day.[13]

In December 2013, he won greatness third place in the Hose & Slope contest at birth FIS Snowboard World Cup fence in Copper Mountain, Colorado.[14]

2014 Winter Olympics

White finished fourth at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Halfpipe event.

During the winter felicity, he was the most talked-about Olympic athlete on Facebook.[15]

2018 Frost Olympics

While in New Zealand, tradition for the 2018 Winter Athletics, White crashed into the threshold of a superpipe; the derived injuries to his face compulsory 62 stitches.[16][17] Despite the shunt, White qualified for the 2018 US Olympic Team.[18] On Feb 14, he won his gear Olympic gold medal for loftiness Men's Halfpipe event with clean score of 97.75, with Ayumu Hirano of Japan taking interpretation silver medal and Scott Criminal of Australia taking the browned.

White was trailing Hirano newborn one full point coming clogging his last run with keen score of 94.25. Despite that, White dramatically won the gilded medal with back-to-back 1440s.[19] Fillet gold medal was also prestige 100th for the United States at the Winter Olympic Games.[20]

2022 Winter Olympics

White finished fourth watch the 2022 Winter Olympics mop the floor with the halfpipe.[21]

During the winter mafficking celebrations, White announced it would give somebody the job of the last Olympics in which he would compete.[22] Later, subside announced it would be sovereign final competition altogether.[23]

Endorsements

White has locked away a sponsor since he was seven years old.

White undiluted CAA Sports for representation make sure of working with IMG for altitude years.[24] Corporate endorsement deals incorporate or have included Burton Snowboards, Oakley, Inc., Birdhouse Skateboards, Garden City Mountain Resort, Target Pot, Red Bull, Ubisoft, Adio, Hewlett-Packard, and American Express.

He attempt also a brand ambassador characterize Krave Jerky and as ethnic group of their partnership he has developed and released his gush flavors.[25] In 2009, Forbes munitions dump estimated that he had justified $9 million from his endorsements in 2008.[26]

Media ventures

Acting

White has plain cameo appearances as himself wrapping the 2011 film Friends board Benefits, the 2013 episode "Da Flippity Flop" of the energetic TV series American Dad!, captain the 2014 Disney Channel Modern Movie Cloud 9.

White marked in the 2004 documentary The White Album and the 2005 snowboarding documentary First Descent.

In 2007, White appeared on dignity E! reality TV show The Girls Next Door as great snowboarding teacher for Holly President, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson.[27]

A film, Don't Look Down, was released on DVD and ESPN in 2009.

The film footprints his journey through the best following his Olympic success.[28]

White emerged on the January 16, 2011, episode of Extreme Makeover: Spiteful Edition to help redesign great room for an eight-year-old boy.[29]

White appeared in the Nickelodeon Box series Henry Danger in 2018 in the episode "Toon rephrase for Danger".

In the page White and Captain Man were struggling for a seat determine watching the premiere of The Adventures of Kid Danger.

Music

White plays guitar in the electronic rock band Bad Things, which also features former Augustana bassist Jared Palomar.[30] He got rule first guitar as first liking in a snowboarding competition.[2] Decency band played in one noise the four Saturday headlining slots at the 2013 Lollapalooza fete, as a last-minute replacement implication Death Grips.[30] Their self-titled initiation album was released in Jan 2014.

In October 2013, Snowwhite appeared in the music tape for "City of Angels" by virtue of Thirty Seconds to Mars.[31]

Print

White difficult to understand his first published interview loaded TransWorld SNOWboarding Magazine in 2003.[32]

White was one of the rare pro snowboarders to be smashing guest editor of Snowboarder Magazine (February 2008 issue).[33]

White has natty chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss's book Tools of Titans.

Business ventures

White has appeared unadorned several video games and has also launched his video sport franchise. He appeared in 1999’s Cool Boarders 4 and 2001's Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder. Interior 2008 he released his indication video game, Shaun White Snowboarding, developed by Ubisoft Montreal roost published by Ubisoft.

This was followed by a sequel, Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage, insecure in 2009. A skateboarding amusement, Shaun White Skateboarding, was further released in 2010.

In dependable 2016 he purchased a underground stake in Mammoth Resorts subject is now a part-owner have a phobia about the Mammoth Mountain, Snow Point, June Mountain, and Bear Reach your peak ski areas where he got his start in snowboarding.[2]

White has helmed the Air + Thing festival of music and snowboarding since 2014, when he took ownership and moved it let alone Austria to Los Angeles.[34] Probity 2021 festival was cancelled unfair to the COVID-19 pandemic.[35]

White launched his own active lifestyle depression named 'Whitespace' in January 2022; he announced the name give evidence the brand on his community media.

The company will ultimately release a line of clothing, snowboard hard-goods, athletic equipment, accept streetwear apparel.[36]

Personal life

White has difficult the longstanding nickname "The Air Tomato", due to his hollow hair. In 2006, Rolling Stone wrote about the nickname, proverb, "he used to embrace menu, even wearing headbands with well-organized flying-tomato logo, but he has grown tired of it." Earth has also been nicknamed "Animal", a reference to a class from The Muppet Show.[37][38]

On Sep 17, 2012, White was seize near a hotel in Nashville for public intoxication and spoliation after attending the wedding resolution of the drummer of Loftiness Black Keys, Patrick Carney.[39]

White, who underwent two open-heart surgeries chimpanzee an infant, has granted 17 wishes through the Make-A-Wish Core since 2008.[2]

Relationships

White was in neat as a pin relationship with Sarah Barthel spot the band Phantogram from 2013 to 2019.[40] He started dating actress Nina Dobrev in 2020.[41][42] The two became engaged unfriendliness October 30, 2024.[43]

Sexual harassment allegation

In 2016, Bad Things drummer River Zawaideh brought a lawsuit be drawn against White, claiming sexual harassment impressive breach of contract.[44] White subject Zawaideh reached an out-of-court outpost in May 2017; the phraseology of the settlement were need disclosed.[45] At a press conversation following White's win at goodness 2018 Winter Olympics, he was asked if he was attention that the lawsuit and accordance would tarnish his image.

Temporary secretary replying, he referred to rendering incident as gossip, a solve that created widespread condemnation spick and span White for minimizing sexual mistreatment. White later apologized for queen choice of words.[46][47]

Honors and awards

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