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Terje Håkonsen
Halfpipe. 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 create rider-led events.
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Kelly Clark
Born
Halfpipe. 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.
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Shaun White
Born
Halfpipe. 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 debuts.
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Torah Bright
Born
Halfpipe 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.
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Torstein Horgmo
Born
Big 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.
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Mark McMorris
Born
Slopestyle 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 later.
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Max Parrot
Born
Slopestyle 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.
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Billy Morgan (snowboarder)
Born
Big 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 can land reliably.
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Marcus Kleveland
Born
Slopestyle 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 rotation count.
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Jamie Anderson (snowboarder)
Born
Slopestyle 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.
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Anna Gasser
Born
Big air. Gasser won Olympic big air gold in 2018 and 2022 and is credited with the first triple cork by a woman, a cab triple she filmed in 2018 rather than landed in a contest. Her Olympic wins came with double corks; the triple pushed what women believed was possible on the big jump.
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Chloe Kim
Born
Halfpipe. Kim landed back-to-back 1080s in a contest at 15, at the 2016 US Grand Prix, then won Olympic gold in 2018 and 2022 and silver in 2026. Her contest runs made consecutive big rotations the standard for women's halfpipe medals.
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Scotty James
Born
Halfpipe. The Australian has Olympic bronze from 2018 and silver from 2022 and 2026, and multiple world and X Games titles. He is known for switch-stance rotations, spinning while riding his unnatural way, which widened what judges expect in a complete halfpipe run.
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Ayumu Hirano
Born
Halfpipe. Hirano landed the first triple cork in halfpipe contest history at the 2021 Dew Tour, then used it to win Olympic gold in Beijing in 2022 after silvers in 2014 and 2018. Taking a big-air trick into the constrained walls of a halfpipe was a genuine change in what pipe riding could include.
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Su Yiming
Born
Big air and slopestyle. Su won Olympic big air gold in 2022 at 17 and slopestyle gold at Milan Cortina 2026 on his 22nd birthday, adding big air bronze. His high-rotation spins in both directions brought China into the top tier of park riding.
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Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Born
Slopestyle and big air. The New Zealander won Olympic slopestyle gold in 2022 and two silvers in 2026, and in 2025 landed a backside triple cork 1440 in a slopestyle contest, the first woman to land a triple cork in that format. It brought the triple from the big-air jump into a full slopestyle run.
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Kokomo Murase
Born
Big air and slopestyle. Murase filmed a backside triple cork 1620 in late 2024 and two months later became the first woman to land it in a contest, then won Olympic big air gold in 2026 with a frontside triple cork 1440 on her final jump, adding slopestyle bronze. Her filmed-then-contest sequence is exactly the gap this list tracks.
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Yūto Totsuka
Born
Halfpipe. Totsuka won Olympic halfpipe gold at Milan Cortina 2026, ahead of Scotty James, after years as one of the highest-flying riders on the World Cup and X Games circuit. His big amplitude combined with double cork 1440s shows where men's halfpipe now sits.
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Choi Ga-on
Born
Halfpipe. Choi won Olympic halfpipe gold at Milan Cortina 2026 at 17, ahead of Chloe Kim. She had already won X Games gold as a young teenager, and her consistent big-rotation runs show how quickly the next generation absorbed the standard Kim set.
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