History of Snowboarding

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  • Baron Pierre de Coubertin

    Baron Pierre de Coubertin
    Baron Pierre de Coubertin was the founder of the modern-day Olympics. He got his idea from the Ancient Olympics held in Olympia, Greece. The first-ever modern-day Olympic Games were held in 1921 and the winter Olympics in 1924.

  • First Winter Olympics

    First Winter Olympics
    The first winter Olympics was in 1924 and was hosted in Chamonix, France but snowboarding never showed up til 1983 in the Winter Olympics.

  • First Snowboard

    First Snowboard
    The first snowboard was invented in 1965 by Sherman Poppen, they also called it snurfing as in snow surfing.

  • Popularized

    Popularized
    Snowboarding popularized in the 1970s and 80s. People also now started making their own snowboards and snowboard brands like Jake Burton the founder of Burton snowboards.

  • Winterstick

    Winterstick
    The first modern snowboard company was invented by Dimitrije Milovich in 1972.

  • Burton

    Burton
    Burton Snowboard was founded in 1977 by Jake Burton.

  • First ever Snowboarding Event

    First ever Snowboarding Event
    The first-ever snowboarding event was held in Ski Cooper, in Leadville, Colorado in April 1981.

  • First snow surfing Championship

    First snow surfing Championship
    It was held in Vermont's suicide 6 resort.

  • Ross Rebagliati

    Ross Rebagliati
    Ross Rebagliati was the first-ever gold medal Olympic winner. Ross won the gold medal in the 1983 winter Olympics.

  • First time Snowboards were aloud in Ski Resorts in the U.S.

    First time Snowboards were aloud in Ski Resorts in the U.S.
    In 1984 40 U.S resorts allowed snowboarding.

  • Neversummer

    Neversummer
    14 years after Burton came Neversummer. Neversummer is also a very popular snowboard brand that I personally prefer than any other snowboard. Neversumer was invented or founded in 1991 by Tracey Canaday. Neversummer doesn't only make snowboards but longboards and wakeboards too.

  • First Winter X-Games

    First Winter X-Games
    The first-ever winter X-Games was hosted in 1997 in Snow Summit ski resort in Big Bear Lake, California.

  • First Half Pipe event in the Olympics

    First Half Pipe event in the Olympics
    The halfpipe was introduced to the Winter Olympics in 1998 in Nagano, Japan.

  • Shaun White

    Shaun White
    Shaun White is the best snowboarder to live, he currently has 18 medals and 13 of them are gold. Shaun won his first medal in the year 2000 and won his first gold medal in 2006 at the Olympic halfpipe event.

  • Jake Burton Death

    Jake Burton Death
    Jake Burton is the founder of Burton snowboards. Sadly Jake Burton died on November 20th, 2019 from cancer.