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An American professional snowboarder and skateboarder and a two-time Olympic gold medalist is Shaun Roger White. Shaun is mostly noted for his red hair for which he has been identified as "Animal" and "The Flying Tomato". He was the first person to contend at both Winter and Summer X Games in two diverse sports. If you are searching Shaun White Wiki or Shaun White Wikipedia then here is mentioned information regarding Shaun White history, success, career, life, etc. including Snowboarding Videos.

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Shaun White childhood, beginning and personal life

Shaun Roger White was born on September 3, 1986 in San Diego, California, US with a heart deficit called Tetralogy of Fallot so he had two open-heart operations before he was a year old. In spite of these conditions, the growing teenager proved that he was far from feeble, charging into sports like surfing, soccer and snowboarding. He has 5 members in the family: Mom (Cathy), Dad (Roger), Sister (Kari) and Brother (Jesse). One of the family's beloved pastimes was skiing.

Shaun proved to be brave on his skis as he raced down the slopes with older brother Jesse at the age of four. He first started snowboarding when he was six years old as Cathy determined to put him on a snowboard and trained him to copy everything that Jesse did. Shaun's snowboarding ability was hold up by his parents so they took him to the mountains as often as possible. Shaun entered his first amateur snowboard contest and won, receiving him a wildcard entry into Nationals at seven. He became sponsored by Burton and turned pro when he was just 13 after winning about all snowboarding competition he had taken part.

Fast facts about Shaun White

He is 5'8" tall and weighs 140 pounds (63 Kg).
His favorite sport to watch is Motocross.
His favorite book is The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton.
In November 2004, he had released a snowboarding movie called The White Album.
Shaun White's much loved all time rock group is Led Zepplin.
He is the first (and only) person to win both a Summer and Winter Dew Cup.
He had stared in his own 2006 snowboarding flick called First Descent, which also featured fellow snowboarder Hannah Teter.
He 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 body varial frontside 540 (The Armadillo).
He was the first to land a Cab 7 Melon Grab in vert skateboarding.
He is the first to "three-peat" in SuperPipe at the Winter X Games.
He won the Revolver Golden God Award for "Most Metal Athlete".

Shaun White Says: "When the pressure’s on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better."

One of his famous quotes: “I got a gold medal. I guess I'm an athlete now. I gotta start going to the gym.”

Non-competition awards/honors

He was named the ninth-best snowboarder in the World, in the March 2009 issue of Snowboarder Magazine.
He has won TransWorld SNOWboarding Rider Of The Year twice.
White was named the "chairman of snowboarding" on the Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards on June 13, 2007.
He won the "His Flow is Gold" award in 2007.

Shaun White – Snowboarding Career and Success

When Shaun first started competing as a pro at the age of 13 only, he already pushed the limits of snowboarding, so he was nicknamed as Future Boy. He won gold in the Snowboard halfpipe event and won in both the 2006 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics. Every year since 2002 he has won a medal. He won the Air & Style Contest in 2003 and 2004. Including all winter X Games competitions, his medal count stands at 14 (9 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze), through 2009. He presently has 28 medals, out of which 17 are gold!

Snowboarding at the 2010 Winter Olympics

At Cypress Mountain, between the 15th and 27th February 2010, the snowboarding competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held. Shaun won gold in the halfpipe at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He recorded a score of 46.8 on his first run and it was adequate score to secure the gold medal without a second run. He ended his second run with a well-anticipated Double McTwist 1260 which he named The Tomahawk and record score of 48.4 (50 is the maximum probable score) enlarging his margin of victory. With point’s total of 45.0, 3.4 behind him, his nearest competitor won the silver.

Media appearances

White was on the cover for The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition.
The 2008 video game Shaun White Snowboarding is named after him, and the game was personally played and demonstrated by him at Nintendo's E3 2008 Press Conference.
White was one of the few pro snowboarders to be a guest editor of Snowboarder Magazine (February 2008 issue).
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 starred in snowboarding documentary First Descent in 2005.
In 2003, he had his first published interview in TransWorld SNOWboarding Magazine.