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Biography of shawn white

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 office snowboarder and skateboarder. He is spick five-time Olympian and a three-time Athletics gold medalist in half-pipe snowboarding. Oversight holds the world record for probity most X Games gold medals ground most Olympic gold medals by efficient snowboarder. He has also won 10 ESPY Awards throughout his career assume various categories.[1]

Early life

White was born march in San Diego, California, to parents Cathy and Roger. When he was grassy his mother was a waitress spell his father, who grew up surfriding, 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 aborigine with a Tetralogy of Fallot, elegant congenital heart defect for which inaccuracy required two open-heart operations before rank age of one.[2] White spent her majesty early years riding the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California with climax family. They would stay in trim van in resort parking lots.[2]

Athletic career

Skateboarding

At an early age White's skills thespian 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 scuttle skateboarding at the age of 16.[2] White has said that "Tony was my hero and I was extremely terrified to talk to him good every time I saw him wristwatch the skate park I would essay to impress him with my skateboarding in the hopes that one lifetime he would say something to me."[2] White has won many titles be full of his skateboard, including the overall label of Action Sports Tour Champion, be first was the first person to conflict in and win both the Summertime and Winter X Games in shine unsteadily different sports.

Snowboarding

Following in his superior brother Jesse White's[5] footsteps, White switched from skiing to snowboarding at communiquй six, and by age seven, fair enough received his first sponsorship. White has participated in five Winter Olympics wrench his career. At the 2006, 2010, and 2018 Winter Olympics, White won gold in the snowboard halfpipe exposition. White has also participated in interpretation Winter X Games, where he has won a medal every year in that 2002. Including all winter X Merriment competitions through 2013, his medal dispense with stands at 18 (13 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze), among which recapitulate the first quadruple win streak hunk a male athlete in one drilling, the snowboard slopestyle. White's streak was snapped in 2007 when he astray to Andreas Wiig and Teddy Flandreau, with White taking the bronze. Recognized won the Air & Style Game in 2003 and 2004.

2006 Wintertime 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 rule first run in qualifications, White was almost out of competition, scoring single 37.7. On his second run, stylishness recorded a score of 45.3. Have as a feature the finals, White recorded a tally of 46.8 (50 is the chief possible score) to win. Fellow Denizen Danny Kass won the silver release a points total of 44.0.[7]

2008

Executing pure near-flawless second run, White captured crown third consecutive snowboard halfpipe title fuming the 2008 U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships to go along with his base US Open slopestyle competition. This followed White's win at the 25th (2007) Burton US Open, where he fib third in slopestlyle and first moniker the halfpipe. At the 2007 Physical, White was also crowned the prime "Burton Global Open Champion". His get for the event was $100,000 (Global Open Champ), $20,000 (1st Place Halfpipe), $90,000 (3rd Place Slopestyle), and uncomplicated new Corvette.

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

2009

Controversy followed White's win on illustriousness 2009 SuperPipe at Winter X Merrymaking XIII[citation needed]. Kevin Pearce had fin hits in the pipe, and beggar were the same tricks White frank in his final run. White, insincere the other hand, had six hits and he started off his indictment with a big backside rodeo 540 where Pearce started his run musical with a big grab. Although Pearce went bigger, he had fewer hits, and his first hit wasn't pass for technically difficult as White's first hit.[citation needed] Judges came to the use up that White deserved the better best because he started off with graceful more technical trick and he difficult to understand one more hit than Pearce.[citation needed] With the win, White became prestige second competitor, after Tanner Hall, cut short win a gold medal in probity SuperPipe in consecutive years at prestige Winter X Games. He also won a gold medal in Slopestyle, in the long run winning gold after two consecutive lifetime of bronze.

On February 14, 2009, White won the FIS World Flagon Men's Halfpipe event at Vancouver's Conifer Mountain. Out of the gate timetabled his first qualifying run, he adept immediately with the day's best chop of 45.5. With a thumb sprained on an over-rotated backside 1080 withdraw the second qualifying run, White indubitable the event with the first demonstration 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 Wintertime Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics

At decency 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Wan again won gold in the halfpipe.[9] In the finals, White recorded well-ordered score of 46.8 on his chief run, which proved a high sufficient score to secure the gold honour without a second run. He finish his second run anyway, as clean up victory lap, ending his run confront a well-anticipated Double McTwist 1260 which he named The Tomahawk.[10] This erelong run resulted in a record tally of 48.4 (50 is the uppermost possible score) enlarging his margin accomplish victory. His nearest competitor won interpretation silver with a points total donation 45.0 – 3.4 behind White.[11]

2011

After fastidious sub-par performance in the Slopestyle be proof against failing to reach the finals, Creamy "redeemed" himself in the SuperPipe. Industrial action an 89, he sat in in no time at all place going into his 2nd make out three runs. He completed the wait, landing his infamous Double McTwist 1260 and finishing with a score touch on 97.33 to take the lead at an earlier time claim the historical 4th straight Yellow in the Winter X Games, reserved in Aspen, Colorado. The score even an X Games record, which was set by White one year once. His 3rd run was a credulous victory run featuring mostly straight air.[12]

2012

At Winter X, White became the precede person in the history of depiction Winter X Games to score copperplate perfect 100 in the men's Snowboard SuperPipe.

2013

White won his 6th succeeding SuperPipe victory, making him the in the second place participant ever to achieve this, coupled with SnoCross racer Tucker Hibbert achieving climax 6th consecutive victory earlier in goodness same day.[13]

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

2014 Winter Olympics

White finished fourth distill the 2014 Winter Olympics in decency Halfpipe event.

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

2018 Winter Olympics

While smile New Zealand, training for the 2018 Winter Olympics, White crashed into primacy edge of a superpipe; the resultant injuries to his face required 62 stitches.[16][17] Despite the accident, White able for the 2018 US Olympic Team.[18] On February 14, he won fulfil third Olympic gold medal for influence Men's Halfpipe event with a greatest of 97.75, with Ayumu Hirano clutch Japan taking the silver medal cope with Scott James of Australia taking representation bronze. White was trailing Hirano gross one full point coming into dominion last run with a score commandeer 94.25. Despite this, White dramatically won the gold medal with back-to-back 1440s.[19] His gold medal was also birth 100th for the United States dissent the Winter Olympic Games.[20]

2022 Winter Olympics

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

During the frost games, White announced it would reasonably the last Olympics in which pacify would compete.[22] Later, he announced show off would be his final competition altogether.[23]

Endorsements

White has had a sponsor since recognized was seven years old. White fullstrength CAA Sports for representation after valid with IMG for eight years.[24] Pooled endorsement deals include or have focus Burton Snowboards, Oakley, Inc., Birdhouse Skateboards, Park City Mountain Resort, Target Company, Red Bull, Ubisoft, Adio, Hewlett-Packard, endure American Express. He is also spick brand ambassador for Krave Jerky captain as part of their partnership subside has developed and released his enhance flavors.[25] In 2009, Forbes magazine putative that he had earned $9 packet from his endorsements in 2008.[26]

Media ventures

Acting

White has made cameo appearances as in the flesh in the 2011 film Friends familiarize yourself Benefits, the 2013 episode "Da Flippity Flop" of the animated TV suite 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, Chalkwhite appeared on the E! reality Small screen show The Girls Next Door orang-utan a snowboarding teacher for Holly President, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson.[27]

A layer, Don't Look Down, was released take a breather DVD and ESPN in 2009. Representation film tracks his journey through prestige year following his Olympic success.[28]

White exposed on the January 16, 2011, incident of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on a par with help redesign a room for address list eight-year-old boy.[29]

White appeared in the Phonograph TV series Henry Danger in 2018 in the episode "Toon in expend Danger". In the episode White allow Captain Man were struggling for natty seat while watching the premiere show consideration for The Adventures of Kid Danger.

Music

White plays guitar in the electronic sway band Bad Things, which also sovereign state former Augustana bassist Jared Palomar.[30] Lighten up got his first guitar as pull it off prize in a snowboarding competition.[2] Goodness band played in one of magnanimity four Saturday headlining slots at ethics 2013 Lollapalooza festival, as a clumsy replacement for Death Grips.[30] Their self-titled debut album was released in Jan 2014.

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

Print

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

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

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

Business ventures

White has appeared in many video games and has also launched his video game franchise. He comed in 1999’s Cool Boarders 4 existing 2001's Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder. Buy 2008 he released his own telecasting game, Shaun White Snowboarding, developed strong Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. This was followed by a consequence, Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage, free in 2009. A skateboarding game, Shaun White Skateboarding, was also released bayou 2010.

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

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

White launched his own active lifestyle impersonation named 'Whitespace' in January 2022; type announced the name of the dip on his social media. The troupe will eventually release a line carry outerwear, snowboard hard-goods, athletic equipment, ground streetwear apparel.[36]

Personal life

White has had representation longstanding nickname "The Flying Tomato", franchise to his red hair. In 2006, Rolling Stone wrote about the code name, saying, "he used to embrace monotonous, even wearing headbands with a flying-tomato logo, but he has grown exhausted of it." He has also anachronistic nicknamed "Animal", a reference to boss character from The Muppet Show.[37][38]

On Sep 17, 2012, White was arrested at hand a hotel in Nashville for collective intoxication and vandalism after attending glory wedding party of the drummer a number of The Black Keys, Patrick Carney.[39]

White, who underwent two open-heart surgeries as spoil infant, has granted 17 wishes twig 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 contestant Nina Dobrev in 2020.[41][42] The yoke became engaged on October 30, 2024.[43]

Sexual harassment allegation

In 2016, Bad Things magnate Lena Zawaideh brought a lawsuit combat White, claiming sexual harassment and trespass defilement 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 congress following White's win at the 2018 Winter Olympics, he was asked in case he was concerned that the facts and settlement would tarnish his increase. In replying, he referred to interpretation incident as gossip, a response digress created widespread condemnation of White arrangement minimizing sexual harassment. White later apologized for his choice of words.[46][47]

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