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Jun 21, 2024 · Shaun White (born September 3, 1986, San Diego, California, U.S.) is an American snowboarder who won Olympic gold medals in the half-pipe event in 2006, 2010, and 2018. (Read Gold-medalist Torah Bright’s Britannica’s entry on snowboarding.) White survived a heart defect that required two operations when he was an infant.
Shaun White has become the best known snowboarder in the world, winning multiple titles, including halfpipe Olympic gold medals at Torino 2006, Vancouver 2010 and PyeongChang 2018. To do this he overcame a congenital heart disorder, tetralogy of Fallot (blue-baby syndrome), which required him to undergo two open-heart surgeries before he was a ...
Apr 2, 2014 · American skateboarder and snowboarder Shaun White, known as the "Flying Tomato," is a three-time Olympic gold medalist. He has also won multiple Summer and Winter X Games medals.
Feb 12, 2022 · Shaun White, of Team USA, reacts during the Men's Snowboard Halfpipe Final on day 7 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Genting Snow Park on Feb. 11, 2022 in Zhangjiakou, China.
Personal. Son of Roger and Cathy White...Has a brother and sister, Jesse and Kari...Began professional competition at age 13...Won 10 ESPY awards for Best Male Action Sports Athlete and Best Male U.S. Olympic Athlete...Featured on the cover of Forbes magazine’s “30 under 30” issue in 2016...Hobbies include playing guitar, mountain biking ...
Feb 10, 2022 · Shaun White Finds the Glory in Falling Short Trying for one last Olympic medal, the 35-year-old snowboarding champion was surpassed by his heirs apparent. That, in itself, was enough.
Feb 5, 2022 · Shaun White says his greatest accomplishment is staying at the highest level of an ever-changing sport for so long, as he arrives at Beijing 2022 for his fifth Winter Olympics.
