The “Flying Tomato” will be landing.

American snowboarder Shaun White, who became the face of the sport by winning three gold medals, said Saturday the Beijing Olympics would be his last snowboarding competition and that he would retire from all contests.

“I think this will be my, well this will be my last competition too, which is pretty special,” White, 35, said at a news conference. White is competing at his fifth Olympics.

Known for his shock of red hair, White who won halfpipe golds at the 2006, 2010 and 2018 Games in Torino, Vancouver, and Pyongchang, South Korea, respectively.

A disappointing fourth-place, non-medaling finish in Sochi, Russia in 2014 proved a valuable life lesson. “To be honest, I had been losing motivation to compete and I planned to win this last medal and retire. I had a run I felt I could win, but after scrubbing the landing on my third hit — it was all over. I was devastated. I had never been to an Olympics and lost. I had the horrible feeling of failure and this was not how I wanted my career to end,” he recalled in a January 2022 Instagram post.

“I felt lost and had no idea how I could motivate myself for another four years to have another chance. Little did I know I was being taught an incredibly valuable lesson: that things don’t always go as planned in life, but that’s ok. We grow from the hard times and these are the moments to reflect and appreciate the things you do have and look forward to the next goal with experience,” he said.

He’s the first and only snowboarder to win three Olympic gold medals.

At 15, he nearly made the U.S. Olympic team — but was narrowly edged out by J.J. Thomas, who went on to win bronze at Salt Lake City in 2002 — and later coached White ahead of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics.

Now in his mid-30s, White said knee and back injuries had lingered, forcing him to pull out of competitions and miss training.

But he said the decision to retire was made recently, during a quiet moment when he got lost and had to take a chairlift over an empty mountain by himself.

“I was watching … the sun go down and it just hit me,” he said.

“It was very sad and a surreal moment but really joyous as well,” said White, adding that he “broke down” a little before calling his friends and family to tell them of his decision.

White is one of the oldest members of the United States snowboarding team. He said he was still in Beijing to compete, explaining that he had been visualizing the runs he would put down during his event next Friday.

White will face an ever-younger field of competitors hungry to challenge his dominance in the sport, including Japan’s Ayumu Hirano, 23, who beat the Californian at the Laax Open last month.

The men’s halfpipe — White’s last event — begins Feb. 9.

With Post wires