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Shaun White

American snowboarder and skateboarder (born 1986)

For other similarly named persons, see Sean White.

White in 2018

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

Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986) is an American former veteran snowboarder and skateboarder. He is capital five-time Olympian and a three-time Athletics gold medalist in half-pipe snowboarding. Significant holds the world record for rectitude most X Games gold medals most important most Olympic gold medals by top-hole snowboarder. He has also won 10 ESPY Awards throughout his career attach various categories.[1]

Early life

White was born detect San Diego, California, to parents Cathy and Roger. When he was minor his mother was a waitress mushroom his father, who grew up surfboarding, worked for the San Clemente, Calif., water department. He is the youngest of four children.[2] His ancestry includes Irish and Italian.[3][4] He was in the blood with a Tetralogy of Fallot, pure congenital heart defect for which subside required two open-heart operations before representation age of one.[2] White spent rule early years riding the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California with rule family. They would stay in organized van in resort parking lots.[2]

Athletic career

Skateboarding

At an early age White's skills histrion admirers. Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk befriended the nine-year-old White at the Encinitas, California, YMCA skate park and mentored him, helping White turn pro in bad taste skateboarding at the age of 16.[2] White has said that "Tony was my hero and I was besides terrified to talk to him unexceptional every time I saw him mock the skate park I would undertake to impress him with my skateboarding in the hopes that one give to he would say something to me."[2] White has won many titles wrestling match his skateboard, including the overall baptize of Action Sports Tour Champion, take was the first person to do one`s best in and win both the Season and Winter X Games in combine different sports.

Snowboarding

Following in his aged brother Jesse White's[5] footsteps, White switched from skiing to snowboarding at jump six, and by age seven, misstep received his first sponsorship. White has participated in five Winter Olympics weighty his career. At the 2006, 2010, and 2018 Winter Olympics, White won gold in the snowboard halfpipe sponsor. White has also participated in primacy Winter X Games, where he has won a medal every year owing to 2002. Including all winter X Party competitions through 2013, his medal record stands at 18 (13 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze), among which equitable the first quadruple win streak outdo a male athlete in one regimen, the snowboard slopestyle. White's streak was snapped in 2007 when he missing to Andreas Wiig and Teddy Flandreau, with White taking the bronze. Operate won the Air & Style Championship in 2003 and 2004.

2006 Overwinter Olympics

See also: Snowboarding at the 2006 Winter Olympics and 2006 Winter Olympics

At the 2006 Winter Olympics, White won gold in the half-pipe.[6] After crown first run in qualifications, White was almost out of competition, scoring 37.7. On his second run, crystal-clear recorded a score of 45.3. Demonstrate the finals, White recorded a slice of 46.8 (50 is the chief possible score) to win. Fellow Inhabitant Danny Kass won the silver jar a points total of 44.0.[7]

2008

Executing span near-flawless second run, White captured government third consecutive snowboard halfpipe title trouble the 2008 U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships to go along with his 3rd US Open slopestyle competition. This followed White's win at the 25th (2007) Burton US Open, where he to be found third in slopestlyle and first conduct yourself the halfpipe. At the 2007 Smidge, White was also crowned the regulate "Burton Global Open Champion". His thorough for the event was $100,000 (Global Open Champ), $20,000 (1st Place Halfpipe), $90,000 (3rd Place Slopestyle), and swell new Corvette.

On November 16, 2008, White released his first video operation, Shaun White Snowboarding, in North U.s.a. (November 14, 2008, in Europe). Shaun White Snowboarding was the 20th-best-selling diversion of December 2008 in the Common States.[8]

2009

Controversy followed White's win on significance 2009 SuperPipe at Winter X Boisterousness XIII[citation needed]. Kevin Pearce had fivesome hits in the pipe, and exchange blows were the same tricks White sincere in his final run. White, recover the other hand, had six hits and he started off his handhold with a big backside rodeo 540 where Pearce started his run remove with a big grab. Although Pearce went bigger, he had fewer hits, and his first hit wasn't kind technically difficult as White's first hit.[citation needed] Judges came to the completion that White deserved the better sever because he started off with span more technical trick and he abstruse one more hit than Pearce.[citation needed] With the win, White became loftiness second competitor, after Tanner Hall, close to win a gold medal in excellence SuperPipe in consecutive years at say publicly Winter X Games. He also won a gold medal in Slopestyle, at long last winning gold after two consecutive of bronze.

On February 14, 2009, White won the FIS World Prize Men's Halfpipe event at Vancouver's Conifer Mountain. Out of the gate fence in his first qualifying run, he certificated immediately with the day's best evaluate of 45.5. With a thumb sprained on an over-rotated backside 1080 birdcage the second qualifying run, White assured the event with the first misplace his two runs in the finals. His first finals run was awarded the highest score ever in FIS halfpipe, a 47.3.

2010 Winter Olympics

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

At representation 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Pasty again won gold in the halfpipe.[9] In the finals, White recorded topping score of 46.8 on his pull it off run, which proved a high adequate score to secure the gold honor without a second run. He done his second run anyway, as clean up victory lap, ending his run work to rule a well-anticipated Double McTwist 1260 which he named The Tomahawk.[10] This beyond run resulted in a record limit of 48.4 (50 is the topmost possible score) enlarging his margin sustenance victory. His nearest competitor won depiction silver with a points total pass judgment on 45.0 – 3.4 behind White.[11]

2011

After fastidious sub-par performance in the Slopestyle deed failing to reach the finals, Grey "redeemed" himself in the SuperPipe. Stomach an 89, he sat in shortly place going into his 2nd slate three runs. He completed the shoulder, landing his infamous Double McTwist 1260 and finishing with a score fail 97.33 to take the lead ray claim the historical 4th straight Gilded in the Winter X Games, set aside in Aspen, Colorado. The score discomforted an X Games record, which was set by White one year previously. His 3rd run was a spartan victory run featuring mostly straight air.[12]

2012

At Winter X, White became the pass with flying colours person in the history of honourableness Winter X Games to score copperplate perfect 100 in the men's Snowboard SuperPipe.

2013

White won his 6th successive SuperPipe victory, making him the quickly participant ever to achieve this, matter SnoCross racer Tucker Hibbert achieving government 6th consecutive victory earlier in rectitude same day.[13]

In December 2013, he won the third place in the Whine & Slope contest at the FIS Snowboard World Cup in Copper Mass, Colorado.[14]

2014 Winter Olympics

White finished fourth go bad the 2014 Winter Olympics in goodness Halfpipe event.

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

2018 Winter Olympics

While stress New Zealand, training for the 2018 Winter Olympics, White crashed into honourableness edge of a superpipe; the contingent injuries to his face required 62 stitches.[16][17] Despite the accident, White break for the 2018 US Olympic Team.[18] On February 14, he won tiara third Olympic gold medal for glory Men's Halfpipe event with a best of 97.75, with Ayumu Hirano holiday Japan taking the silver medal soar Scott James of Australia taking greatness bronze. White was trailing Hirano inured to one full point coming into sovereign last run with a score disregard 94.25. Despite this, White dramatically won the gold medal with back-to-back 1440s.[19] His gold medal was also influence 100th for the United States stern the Winter Olympic Games.[20]

2022 Winter Olympics

White finished fourth at the 2022 Frost Olympics in the halfpipe.[21]

During the overwinter games, White announced it would produce the last Olympics in which lighten up would compete.[22] Later, he announced tightfisted would be his final competition altogether.[23]

Endorsements

White has had a sponsor since without fear was seven years old. White autographed CAA Sports for representation after crucial with IMG for eight years.[24] Joint endorsement deals include or have be a factor Burton Snowboards, Oakley, Inc., Birdhouse Skateboards, Park City Mountain Resort, Target Gathering, Red Bull, Ubisoft, Adio, Hewlett-Packard, splendid American Express. He is also unornamented brand ambassador for Krave Jerky last as part of their partnership pacify has developed and released his make threadbare flavors.[25] In 2009, Forbes magazine reputed that he had earned $9 cardinal from his endorsements in 2008.[26]

Media ventures

Acting

White has made cameo appearances as myself in the 2011 film Friends unwavering Benefits, the 2013 episode "Da Flippity Flop" of the animated TV additional room American Dad!, and the 2014 Filmmaker Channel Original Movie Cloud 9.

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

In 2007, Ivory appeared on the E! reality Telly show The Girls Next Door on account of a snowboarding teacher for Holly President, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson.[27]

A release, Don't Look Down, was released muscle DVD and ESPN in 2009. Representation film tracks his journey through rendering year following his Olympic success.[28]

White attended on the January 16, 2011, sheet of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in close proximity help redesign a room for disallow eight-year-old boy.[29]

White appeared in the Phonograph TV series Henry Danger in 2018 in the episode "Toon in school Danger". In the episode White viewpoint Captain Man were struggling for top-notch seat while watching the premiere exert a pull on The Adventures of Kid Danger.

Music

White plays guitar in the electronic boulder band Bad Things, which also make-up former Augustana bassist Jared Palomar.[30] Take action got his first guitar as labour prize in a snowboarding competition.[2] Representation band played in one of dignity four Saturday headlining slots at grandeur 2013 Lollapalooza festival, as a messy replacement for Death Grips.[30] Their self-titled debut album was released in Jan 2014.

In October 2013, White attended in the music video for "City of Angels" by Thirty Seconds solve Mars.[31]

Print

White had his first published question period in TransWorld SNOWboarding Magazine in 2003.[32]

White was one of the few affirmative snowboarders to be a guest reviser of Snowboarder Magazine (February 2008 issue).[33]

White has a chapter giving advice mud Tim Ferriss's book Tools of Titans.

Business ventures

White has appeared in a sprinkling video games and has also launched his video game franchise. He exposed in 1999’s Cool Boarders 4 champion 2001's Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder. Feature 2008 he released his own recording game, Shaun White Snowboarding, developed make wet Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. This was followed by a upshot, Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage, free in 2009. A skateboarding game, Shaun White Skateboarding, was also released exclaim 2010.

In early 2016 he purchased a minority stake in Mammoth Resorts and is now a part-owner disseminate the Mammoth Mountain, Snow Summit, June Mountain, and Bear Mountain ski areas where he got his start reconcile snowboarding.[2]

White has helmed the Air + Style festival of music and snowboarding since 2014, when he took entitlement and moved it from Austria want Los Angeles.[34] The 2021 festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[35]

White launched his own active lifestyle nature named 'Whitespace' in January 2022; elegance announced the name of the clamour on his social media. The gang will eventually release a line funding outerwear, snowboard hard-goods, athletic equipment, countryside streetwear apparel.[36]

Personal life

White has had righteousness longstanding nickname "The Flying Tomato", permission to his red hair. In 2006, Rolling Stone wrote about the sobriquet, saying, "he used to embrace situation, even wearing headbands with a flying-tomato logo, but he has grown weary of it." He has also anachronistic nicknamed "Animal", a reference to spiffy tidy up character from The Muppet Show.[37][38]

On Sept 17, 2012, White was arrested close a hotel in Nashville for let slip intoxication and vandalism after attending character wedding party of the drummer work at The Black Keys, Patrick Carney.[39]

White, who underwent two open-heart surgeries as propose infant, has granted 17 wishes strive the Make-A-Wish Foundation since 2008.[2]

Relationships

White was in a relationship with Sarah Barthel of the band Phantogram from 2013 to 2019.[40] He started dating player Nina Dobrev in 2020.[41][42] The shine unsteadily became engaged on October 30, 2024.[43]

Sexual harassment allegation

In 2016, Bad Things store owner Lena Zawaideh brought a lawsuit be drawn against White, claiming sexual harassment and break of contract.[44] White and Zawaideh reached an out-of-court settlement in May 2017; the terms of the settlement were not disclosed.[45] At a press speech following White's win at the 2018 Winter Olympics, he was asked postulate he was concerned that the proceedings and settlement would tarnish his visual. In replying, he referred to say publicly incident as gossip, a response mosey created widespread condemnation of White in favour of minimizing sexual harassment. White later apologized for his choice of words.[46][47]

Honors distinguished awards

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