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rides regular stance

known for his shock of red hair,

born with a Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect for which he endured two open-heart operations before the age of one

stands 5'8"

February 2009, Red Bull built White a halfpipe completely out of natural snow in the back country of Colorado on the backside of Silverton Mountain

participated in two Winter Olympics in his career

the 2006 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics, White won gold in the Snowboard halfpipe event

participated in the Winter X Games, where he has won a medal every year since 2002. Including all winter X Games competitions through 2009, his medal count stands at 14 (9 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze)

White's streak was snapped in 2007 when he lost to Andreas Wiig and Jussi Oksanen, with White taking the bronze

won the Air & Style Contest in 2003 and 2004

2006 Winter Olympics, White won gold in the halfpipe

2008 Executing a near-flawless second run

his third consecutive Snowboard halfpipe title at the 2008 U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships

25th (2007) Burton US Open, where he placed third in slopestlyle and first in the halfpipe

t 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

2009 There was a lot of controversy over who won the 2009 SuperPipe at Winter X Games XIII. Kevin Pearce 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 only had 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 Tanner Hall, to win a gold medal in the superpipe 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.

February 14, 2009, White won the FIS World Cup Men's Halfpipe event at Vancouver's Cypress Mountain.

thumb sprained on an over-rotated backside 1080 in the second qualifying run

qualified immediately with the day's best score of 45.5

clinched the event with the first of his two runs in the finals

run was awarded the highest score ever in FIS halfpipe, a 47.3

2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, White again won gold in the halfpipe.

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

as a victory lap, ending his run with a well-anticipated Double McTwist 1260.[7] This second run resulted in a record score of 48.4 (50 is the highest possible score) enlarging his margin of victory.

first snowboarder ever to land back to back double corks, at the Red Bull superpipe

remains the only skater to land the body varial frontside 540

first snowboarder to win back-to-back gold medals in the Winter X-Games Superpipe

first (and only) person to win both a Summer and Winter Dew Cup

first to "three-peat" in SuperPipe at the Winter X Games

holds the record for the highest score in the men's halfpipe at the winter olympics

named the "chairman of snowboarding" on the Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards on June 13, 2007

March 2009 issue of Snowboarder Magazine, he was named the ninth-best snowboarder in the World

won the Revolver Golden God Award for "Most Metal Athlete

Won the "His Flow is Gold" award in 2007

won TransWorld SNOWboarding Rider Of The Year twice

endorsement deals include Burton Snowboards, Oakley, Inc., Birdhouse Skateboards, Park City Mountain Resort, Target Corporation, Red Bull, Adio and Hewlett-Packard.

has his own character on the game Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder as well as the video game Shaun White Snowboarding.

2009, Forbes magazine estimated that he had earned $9 million from his endorsements in 2008

charging into sports like surfing, soccer and snowboarding at a young age

Mom (Cathy), Dad (Roger), Sister (Kari) and Brother (Jesse)

age of four, Shaun proved to be fearless on his skis as he raced down the slopes with older brother Jesse. At six, in an attempt to slow him down, Cathy decided to put him on a snowboard and instructed him to copy everything Jesse did. Shaun did just that, unfortunately for her, it only encouraged Shaun to go faster.

parents supported Shaun's snowboarding ability and took him to the mountains as often as possible

seven, Shaun entered his first amateur snowboard contest and won, earning him a wildcard entry into Nationals, where he placed just outside of the top 10

Cathy sent Burton a homemade video of Shaun just as the company was coincidentally developing a kid-sized snowboard line. Not surprisingly, they were impressed, and offered the seven-year-old a sponsorship deal. With the support of Burton, he turned pro at 13

his first major win as a pro in 2001 at the Arctic Challenge. He earned his first Winter X Games medal when he was 16

haun now holds 16 X Games medals, and a record 10 of them are gold

helping Shaun turn pro in skateboarding at the age of 17

2003 he became the first athlete ever to compete and medal in both the Summer and Winter X Games in two different sports.

2006 qualifiers for Torino, however, he took no prisoners. Shaun went undefeated with 12 victories that season, becoming the first athlete ever to sweep the five-event

23, Shaun shows no sign of letting up on the competition, taking on the world in contests leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver, Canada

help of Red Bull, a halfpipe was created with snowboarding's first-ever on-mountain foam pit. The Red Bull foam pit allowed Shaun to attempt tricks he never thought would be possible. The one-month training session, dubbed "Red Bull Project X"

Shaun has a knack for business. By partnering with companies that he thinks are cool, Shaun has been able to reach out beyond his sport and embraced the position of brand ambassador for companies like Burton, Target, and Ubisoft

Jake Burton Carpenter who thought of the rubber foot holsters. That requires a snowboarder to wear boots and slip them into the holster. It was like wearing a shoe and locking your foot into a wheelless inline skate

contacted Tom Sims and the sport of snowboarding was born