Shaun White

About Shaun White

Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986) is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder. He is a two-time Olympic gold medalist.  He holds the X-Games records for gold medals and highest overall medal count, and has won 10 ESPY Awards.

Career Highlights:

2006 

At the 2006 Winter Olympics, White won gold in the half-pipe.After his first run in qualifications, White was almost out of competition, scoring  only 37.7. On his second run, he recorded a score of 45.3. In the finals, White recorded a score of 46.8 (50 is the highest possible score) to win.  Fellow American Danny Kass won the silver with a points total of 44.0.

2008

Executing a near-flawless second run, White captured his third consecutive snowboard halfpipe title at the 2008 U.S. Open Snowboarding  Championships to go along with his third US Open slopestyle competition. This followed White's win at the 25th (2007) Burton US Open, where he  placed third in slopestlyle and first in the halfpipe. At the 2007 Open, White was also crowned the first "Burton Global Open Champion". His take for  the event was $100,000 (Global Open Champ), $20,000 (1st Place Halfpipe), $90,000 (3rd Place Slopestyle), and a new Corvette.On November 16, 2008, White released his first videogame "Shaun White Snowboarding" in North America (November 14, 2008, in Europe). Shaun  

2009

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

2010 

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, White again won gold in the halfpipe.In the finals, White recorded a score of 46.8 on his first run,  which proved a high enough score to secure the gold medal without a second run. He performed his second run anyway, as a victory lap, ending  his run with a well-anticipated Double McTwist 1260 which he named The Tomahawk.This second run resulted in a record score of 48.4 (50 is  the highest possible score) enlarging his margin of victory. His nearest competitor won the silver with a points total of 45.0, 3.4 behind White.

2011

After a sub-par performance in the Slopestyle, failing to reach the finals, White "redeemed" himself in the Superpipe. With an 89, he sat in second  place going into his 2nd of three runs. He completed the run, landing his infamous Double McTwist 1260 and finishing with a score of 97.33 to take  the lead and claim the historical 4th straight Gold in the Winter X Games, held in Aspen Colorado. The score tied an X Games record which was set  by White one year before. His 3rd run was a simple victory run featuring mostly straight air.

2012

At Winter X, White became the first person to score a perfect 100 in the men's Snowboard Superpipe in the history of Winter X Games.

2013

White won his 6th consecutive SuperPipe victory, placing him as the second participant to ever achieve this, with SnoCross racer Tucker Hibbert  achieving his 6th consecutive victory earlier in the same day.

In December 2013, he won the third place in the Pipe & Slope contest at the FIS Snowboard World Cup in Copper Mountain, Colorado.

2014 

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

During the winter games, he was the most talked about Olympic athlete on Facebook.

Shaun White Achievements

Athletic achievements:

• In 2003, White was the first to compete and medal in both the Summer and Winter X Games in two different sports.
  
• White is the first snowboarder ever to land back to back double corks, at the Red Bull superpipe.
  
• He remains the only skater to land the frontside heelflip 540 body varial. (The Armadillo).
  
• He was the first to land a Cab 7 Melon Grab in vert skateboarding.
  
• He is the first snowboarder to win back-to-back gold medals in the Winter X-Games Superpipe.
  
• He is also the first athlete ever (on snowboard or skis) to win gold medals four years in a row in the Winter X-Games Superpipe.
  
• He is the first (and only) person to win both a Summer and Winter Dew Cup.
  
• White was the first to "three-peat" in SuperPipe at the Winter X Games.
  
• Shaun White holds the record for the highest score in the men's halfpipe at the Winter Olympics. In 2006, his 46.8 points bested Ross Powers'  
  
• previous record of 46.1 from 2002. In 2010, during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he improved his own record with 48.4 points in his final run.
  

Non-competition awards and accolades:

• White was named the "Chairman of the Board" on the Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards on June 13, 2007 and again on June 19, 2010.
  
• In the March 2009 issue of Snowboarder Magazine, he was named the ninth-best snowboarder in the World.
  
• He won the Revolver Golden Gods Award for "Most Metal Athlete".
  
• White has been named Transworld Snowboarding's Rider Of The Year twice.