Because Snowboarding can be done in so many different ways, there is and may never be a world snowboarding champion. Some snowboarders dominate the type of snowboarding they do. For example, Simon Chamberlain seems to be the best street snowboarder, but my guess is that he isn't very good at downhill racing because of his time spent street snowboarding.
Sharron Davies is a Gold Medalist but is also a Silver Medalist!
Peetu Piiroinen
considering the men's half-pipe 2-time gold medalist is Shaun White, and the womens half-pipe team almost swept the podium, I would say yes, the U.S. is known for snowboarding in the olympics.
The redheaded Olympic medalist in snowboarding is called "The Flying Tomato." :
Mark Harmon never was an Olympic gold medalist. You may be confusing him with Mark Spitz who WAS an Olympic gold medalist swimmer in the 1972 Olympics.
Yu-Na Kim was the women's gold medalist
Some are .... 1) Muhammad Ali - 1960 gold medalist in the light heavyweight division 2) Joe Frazier - 1964 gold medalist in the heavyweight division 3) George Foreman - 1972 gold medalist in the heavyweight division 4) Sugar Ray Leonard - 1976 gold medalist in the welterweight division 5) Oscar de la Hoya - 1992 gold medalist in the lightweight division
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The women's downhill gold medalist at the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck was Christi Haas of Austria.
The silver medalist in the Women's Snowboarding parallel slalom in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics is Anke Karstens.
The first US gold medalist in the Modern Olympics was James Connolly in the triple jump in the 1896 Games in Athens.
Zan Kosir is the silver medalist in the Men's Snowboarding parallel slalom event in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.