Louie Vito

Louie Vito, born Louis Philip Vito III on March 20, 1988, is an American professional snowboarder of Italian descent who is an Olympian and a Winter X Games and U.S. Grand Prix champion. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he grew up in nearby Bellefontaine and moved to Vermont to attend the Stratton Mountain School, a ski and snowboarding academy. He has won four U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Overall Championships, six X Games medals and two Winter Dew Tour Overall Championships. At age 17 he completed a backside 1080 at the Australian Open Snowboarding Championships, the first rider to do so in an Australian competition. He represented the United States at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and Italy in the halfpipe at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, and at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina he became the oldest snowboarder to compete in the men halfpipe event.