BIRTHDAYS: Shaun White (Birthday 3rd September), Famous American Snowboarder, Biography of Shaun White on Career, Personal Life, Achievements

Shaun White Birth Details

Shaun Roger White was born on 3rd September 1986 in California.

Importance

• Shaun White is an American sportsperson, an athlete.
• Shaun White has been a prominent contestant in professional snowboarding the age of fourteen. Shaun White is also popular for his skateboarding.
• Shaun White has a congenital heart imperfection for which Shaun White underwent heart surgeries twice.

Shaun White Personal details

• Shaun White is 5’ 8.5" inches in height.
• Shaun White is known for his riding of regular posture, twelve and negative three degrees on his snowboard.
• Shaun White has a different style of stock of red hair.
• Due to his hairs, Shaun White is popularly called as “The Flying Tomato”.
• Shaun White was commented for his hairstyle by his nickname in the Rolling Stone magazine quoting "he used to embrace it, even wearing headbands with a flying-tomato logo, buthas grown tired of it."

Sponsors

• Shaun White used up his shaping years riding Snow Summit and Bear Mountain.
• At present, his supporters or sponsors are;

• Burton Snowboards
• Park City Resort
• Target
• Red Bull
• Adio
• HP and Oakley
• Birdhouse Skateboards.

Shaun White Achievements

• Shaun White also takes part in the Winter X Games.
• Shaun White has won a medal every year since 2002.
• Evaluating all winter X Games competitions, his total medal number stands at 14 of which 9 are gold, 3 are silver and 2 bronze.
• The game incorporates the first four-peat winner by a male athlete in the snowboard slopestyle only.
• In five-peat Gold in 2007, Shaun White won the bronze at the finale of the 2008 Winter X Games.
• Shaun White won a leading seven gold medals in the complete Winter X competitive history. Shaun White was also the victor of the Air & Style Contest held in the year 2003 and 2004.
• Shaun White also won a gold medal in the men's halfpipe at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
• Shaun White represented the United States inn the contest.
• Shaun White achieved 46.8 out of 50 during his first run.
• Any other boarder could not beat him in the first or second run thus winning gold before his final run.
• Shaun White also took over his third halfpipe title at the 2008 U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships besides his third US Open slopestyle contest.
• It resulted in his spectacular win at the 25th Burton US Open in 2007; Shaun White stood third in slopestlyle and first in the halfpipe.
• Shaun White was shielding champion of the Open.
• Shaun White struggled for several injuries and other troubles to lastly win the championship in 2006.
• In 2007 open, Shaun White was also honored as the first "Male Burton Global Open Champion".
• Shaun White earnings for the event were $200,000 for Global Open Championship, $20,000 for 1st Place Halfpipe, $5,000 for 3rd Place Slopestyle, and a Volvo.
• During this season Shaun White was the victor for almost every gamecontested. In March 2007, Shaun White was honored with the title of “champion” at the US Open.
• Shaun White is presently holding the No. 1 position in the snowboard world ranking. earned $50,000.at the end of the season.

Recognition and popular culture

• Shaun White has received Laureus World Sports Award for the best Action Sportsperson of the Year 2008.
• Shaun White is still the only skater to ground the body varial frontside 540.
• In 2007, Shaun White was called the Chairman of the Board on the Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards.
• In 2008, Shaun White has created a video game, which is named Shaun White Snowboarding. The game was played and showed by him at E3.
• Shaun White was nominated in the film Ocean's Thirteen.
• In 2008 Summer X-Gamesdecide his new signature trick, named "The Armadillo."