First 100 score in a professional halfpipe snowboarding competition (male)

On 29 January 2012, Shaun White (USA) received the highest-possible score of 100 for his final run at the men’s SuperPipe competition at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado, USA. Having already earned gold, White went on to land unprecedented back-to-back double cork 1260s before finishing with a frontside double cork 1260 that he had invented only four days earlier. It was the first 100-point full-run score in X Games history.

White’s score was even more remarkable for the fact that he had damaged his left ankle in training before the X Games, an injury that forced him to withdraw from the slopestyle event. He would go on to earn a second score of 100 on 13 January 2018, at the US Grand Prix in Snowmass, Colorado.

As of 2018, snowboarding scores are used essentially as a means of ranking competitors rather than following a set judging scale. Identical runs could earn different scores at different events. Scores of 100 can only be achieved on the last run of the competition, to prevent a situation whereby a subsequent athlete completes a better run but cannot earn any more points.