Starting snowboarding at age nine, Toutant got into the sport when he broke his skis and borrowed his brother's old snowboard. He was taken by a film crew to
Mount Hood shortly after to shoot a video of him on the biggest jumps he had tried at that point. He also won gold in Snowboard Slopestyle in the same games – his first gold at the X Games. The victory in slopestyle at the X Games made Toutant the first male rookie to win gold at the X Games in the event since 2002. The following season Toutant failed to make any significant podium finishes. In 2013 Toutant returned to the X Games in
Tignes, France. There he made it to the top of the podium beating his friend and teammate
Mark McMorris, whom he has known since he was 14. In the
slopestyle final in
Sochi he finished in 9th place overall. Following the Olympics Toutant would further his X Games pedigree, winning silver in slopestyle in
Aspen, Colorado in 2016. Keeping his injury a secret Toutant hit the slopes at the Olympics, he finished last in the men's slopestyle final. In the big air final, Toutant defied his injury and rode to a surprise gold medal, surpassing teammates McMorris and Parrot. After that, he said of his gold medal victory, "I just love snowboarding so much, and I've been through so much lately. A couple of months ago, I couldn't even snowboard, so it definitely feels great that I'm able to ride at my best and to put the tricks down. To be able to show up and to show the world what I can do is just awesome." He placed 26th in the big air qualifying event at the
2022 Beijing Olympics, and did not advance to the final. ==Competition history==