Scotty James

Scott James, known as Scotty James, was born on 6 July 1994 and is an Australian snowboarder, five-time Olympian and children's book author who grew up in Warrandyte, Victoria. He began riding at three and competing at six, and at fifteen he became the youngest male competitor at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where he rode the halfpipe with a fractured wrist and finished 21st. In 2014 he won the World Cup title in halfpipe and became the top-ranked halfpipe rider in the world at nineteen. He carried the Australian flag at the 2018 Winter Olympics, where he won the halfpipe bronze medal, and he won halfpipe silver medals at the 2022 and 2026 Games, which made him Australia's most decorated Winter Olympian. He has five career X Games gold medals in the halfpipe, and in December 2022 he scored 99.00 in the final of the US Snowboarding Grand Prix, the second-highest score in the history of International Ski and Snowboard Federation events. In 2024 he published his first children's book, Mooki vs the Big Scary, followed by a sequel.