Travis Rice

Rice in 2022
Travis Rice
Medal record
Men's snowboarding
Representing  United States
Winter X Games
Gold medal – first place 2002 Aspen Slopestyle
Gold medal – first place 2009 Aspen Big Air
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Aspen Slopestyle
Silver medal – second place 2007 Aspen Best Trick
TTR World Snowboard Tour
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Overall

Travis Rice (born October 9, 1982[1]) is an American professional snowboarder. He is #13 on Snowboarder magazine's list of the 20 most influential snowboarders of the last 20 years.[2] The 41-year-old has featured in more than twenty snowboarding films. Rice's biggest claim to fame came when he arrived at Snowboarder magazine's Superpark contest at Mammoth Mountain and launched a 'mammoth' of a backside rodeo across a 117-foot gap jump.[3] He has been considered "the Paul Revere" of the big mountain freestyle movement.[4] In 2013, Rice was named the best contemporary snowboarder in the world by Red Bull; Rice was also hailed as one of the greatest snowboarders of all time by numerous writers and publications.[5][6]

  1. ^ TTR World Snowboard Tour: Travis Rice Archived 2007-02-02 at the Wayback Machine TTR World Tour 2006. Retrieved April 18, 2007
  2. ^ 20 most influential snowboarders of the last 20 years. Snowboarder. Retrieved April 28, 2009
  3. ^ [1], Snowboarder. Retrieved April 28, 2009
  4. ^ Rider Profiles: Travis Rice, Snowboarder. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
  5. ^ Leigh, Ed. "World's Top 20 Snowboarders – No.1 Travis Rice". www.redbull.com. Retrieved 2016-02-11.
  6. ^ "Travis Rice – Whitelines Snowboarding". Whitelines Snowboarding. Retrieved 2016-02-11.