Jacket worn by Shaun White during the Red Bull Project X in Silverton, Colorado
name: label: user
content: White, Shaun
label: maker
content: Burton Snowboards
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black and red plaid hooded snowboarding jacket worn by Shaun White in 2000 while creating tricks for Olympic competition during the Red Bull Project X in Silverton, Colorado. When Shaun White turned 6 his family bought a van and spent every weekend skiing and snowboarding in the San Bernardino Mountains and sleeping in the van. By the age of 7 White was winning competitions and Burton Snowboards was his sponsor. White’s natural ability, hard work and dedication to the sport made him the most decorated athlete in X-Games history with 24 snowboarding and skateboarding medals combined, 15 of those are gold, the most in event history. At the 2012 Winter X-Games, he earned the only perfect score ever achieved in the Superpipe event, winning gold for the fifth consecutive time. White has won Olympic gold medals in the halfpipe event at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Games propelling the extreme sport of snowboarding into the mainstream.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Snowboarding
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Snow & Surf
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content: Sports & Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Shaun White
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0244.01
label: accession number
content: 2010.0244
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0244.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: jacket, snowboarding
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: polyester (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40 in x 20 1/2 in; 101.6 cm x 52.07 cm