Contents. Early life White was born in San Diego, California. His ancestry includes and Italian. He was born with a, a congenital heart defect for which he endured two open-heart operations before the age of one. He stands 5'8' (1.73 m) tall. White spent his formative years riding and, small ski resorts found in, and the of Southern California. Career White quickly drew the eyes of many in the skateboarder scene, including professional skateboarder.

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Hawk befriended the nine-year-old White at a local skatepark and mentored him, helping him turn pro in skateboarding at the age of 17. White has won many titles on his skateboard, including the overall title of Action Sports Tour Champion, and was the first person to compete in and win both the Summer and Winter X Games in two different sports. Snowboarding career Following in his older brother's footsteps, White switched from skiing to snowboarding at age six, and by age seven he received his first sponsorship. White has participated in three Winter Olympics in his career. At both the and, White won gold in the event.

White has also participated in the Winter, where he has won a medal every year since 2002. Including all winter X Games competitions through 2013, his medal count stands at 18 (13 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze), among which is the first quadruple win streak by a male athlete in one discipline, the snowboard slopestyle. White's streak was snapped in 2007 when he lost to and Teddy Flandreau, with White taking the bronze. He won the Air & Style Contest in 2003 and 2004. 2006 Winter Olympics. See also: and 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 won the silver with a points total of 44.0. 2008 Executing a near-flawless second run, White captured his third consecutive 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. On November 16, 2008, White released his first videogame ' in North America (November 14, 2008, in Europe).

Shaun White:Snowboarding was the 20th best-selling game of December 2008 in the United States. White with in 2009 There was a lot of controversy over who won the 2009 SuperPipe at. Had 5 hits in the pipe, and all were the same tricks White did in his final run. White, on the other hand, had 6 hits and he started off his run with a big backside rodeo 540 where Pearce started his run off with a big grab. Although Pearce went bigger, he had only 5 hits, and his first hit wasn't as technical as White's first hit. Judges came to the conclusion that White deserved the better score because he started off with a more technical trick and he had 1 more hit than Pearce. With the win, White became the second competitor, after, to win a gold medal in the in consecutive years at the Winter X Games.

He also won a gold medal in Slopestyle, finally winning gold after 2 straight years of bronze. 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 Winter Olympics. See also: and 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.

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

2014 Winter Olympics White finished fourth at the in the event. During the winter games, he was the most talked-about Olympic athlete on. 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 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 Superpipe. He is also the first athlete ever (on snowboard or skis) to win gold medals four years in a row in the Superpipe.

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He is the first (and only) person to win both a Summer and. 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. In, his 46.8 points bested ' previous record of 46.1 from. In, 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 on June 13, 2007 and again on June 19, 2010.

In the March 2009 issue of, he was named the ninth-best snowboarder in the World. He won the for 'Most Metal Athlete'. White has been named 's Rider Of The Year twice. Endorsements White has had a sponsor since he was seven years old. White signed CAA Sports for representation after working with IMG for eight years. Corporate endorsement deals include or have included, and. White also has his own character on the game as well as the video games and.

In 2009, magazine estimated that he had earned $9 million from his endorsements in 2008. Acting career White has made cameo appearance as himself in the 2011 film, the 2013 episode ' of the animated TV series, and the 2014 Disney Channel Original Movie. In a 2007 interview with magazine, White stated that he had turned down numerous film roles in which 'the first lines for his character are always 'What up, brah?'

Music career White plays guitar in the band, which also features former bassist Jared Palomar. The band played in one of the four Saturday headlining slots at the 2013 festival, as a last minute replacement for. Their self-titled debut album was released in January 2014. In 2016, Bad Things drummer Lena Zawaideh brought a lawsuit against White, claiming sexual harassment and breach of contract. White and Zawaideh reached an out-of-court settlement in May 2017; the terms of the settlement were not disclosed. In October 2013, White appeared in the music video for '. Media appearances.

He had his first published interview in TransWorld SNOWboarding Magazine in 2003. White starred in the 2004 documentary The White Album and the 2005 snowboarding documentary. In 2007, White appeared on the E! Reality TV show ' as a snowboarding teacher for Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson. White was one of the few pro snowboarders to be a guest editor of Snowboarder Magazine (February 2008 issue).

Shaun White has appeared in several video games and even had his own franchise. He appeared in in 2001. was released in 2008.

A sequel, was released in 2009. A skateboarding game, was released in 2010. A film, Don't Look Down has been released on DVD and ESPN. The film tracks his journey through the year following his Olympic success.

White was on the cover for The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. White appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, March 2, 2010, recounting the story of how his mother had his first Olympic gold medal dry cleaned.

White appeared on the January 16, 2011 episode of to help redesign a room for an eight-year-old boy. Personal life White has had the longstanding nickname 'The Flying Tomato', due to his shock of red hair. In 2006, Rolling Stone wrote about the nickname, 'he used to embrace it, even wearing headbands with a flying-tomato logo, but he has grown tired of it.'

He has also been nicknamed 'animal', a reference to from. In February 2009, built White a completely out of natural snow in the back country of on the backside of, coordinates (37.838801,-107.710299). On September 17, 2012, White was arrested near a hotel in Nashville for and after attending the wedding party of the drummer of,. See also. References. O'Shea, Sean. Retrieved June 13, 2011.

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