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Terje HåkonsenHalfpipe. Håkonsen won three straight halfpipe world titles in the mid-1990s with high, stylish airs and the inverted "Haakon flip", then boycotted the 1998 Olympics over how the sport was being run. His contests set the early standard for amplitude, and he later founded the Arctic Challenge to…0 - 2
Kelly ClarkBorn 26 Jul 1983Halfpipe. Clark won Olympic gold in 2002 and bronze in 2010 and 2014, and in 2011 became the first woman to land a frontside 1080 in a halfpipe contest, at the X Games. That contest landing moved the ceiling for women's spins and set the target the next generation chased.0i - 3
Shaun WhiteBorn 3 Sept 1986Halfpipe. White won Olympic gold in 2006, 2010 and 2018, landing the double McTwist 1260 in his 2010 victory lap and back-to-back double cork 1440s to win in 2018. He trained new tricks in a private pipe before unveiling them in contests, which is why so many of his firsts were genuine contest…0i - 4
Torah BrightBorn 27 Dec 1986Halfpipe and slopestyle. Bright won Olympic halfpipe gold in 2010 with switch backside 720s in a run built on style as much as spin, then at Sochi 2014 entered halfpipe, slopestyle and boardercross, taking halfpipe silver. Few modern riders have tried to compete across such different formats.0i - 5
Torstein HorgmoBorn 18 Feb 1987Big air and slopestyle. Horgmo landed the first triple cork in a snowboard contest, at the 2011 Winter X Games big air, months after riders had first done the trick on film. That contest run is the moment triple corks moved from video parts into judged competition.0i - 6
Mark McMorrisBorn 9 Dec 1993Slopestyle and big air. McMorris won three Olympic slopestyle bronze medals (2014, 2018, 2022) and a record haul of X Games medals, and was among the first to make triple corks a regular part of slopestyle runs. He came back from a near-fatal backcountry crash in 2017 to win Olympic bronze months…0i - 7
Max ParrotBorn 6 Jun 1994Slopestyle and big air. Parrot won Olympic slopestyle gold in 2022, three years after treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, with a run built on triple corks off every jump. His contest runs pushed the expectation that a winning slopestyle run would include multiple triples.0 - 8
Billy Morgan (snowboarder)Born 2 Apr 1989Big air. The British rider landed the first quadruple cork 1800 in 2015, a filmed session rather than a contest, then won big air bronze at the 2018 Olympics. His career is a useful example of the gap between a filmed first and what judges see on contest day, where riders still choose tricks they…0 - 9
Marcus KlevelandBorn 25 Apr 1999Slopestyle and big air. Kleveland filmed one of the earliest quadruple corks as a teenager in 2016 and went on to win X Games slopestyle and big air titles with unusually creative rail and jump combinations. Judges have rewarded his variety, a reminder that contest scoring is not only about…0i - 10
Jamie Anderson (snowboarder)Born 13 Sept 1990Slopestyle and big air. Anderson won the first Olympic slopestyle gold in 2014 and defended it in 2018, adding big air silver. Her smooth, low-risk runs on rails and jumps showed that execution could beat bigger spins when the women's tricks were still catching up.0i
