Taku Hiraoka

Taku Hiraoka
Personal information
Full name Taku Hiraoka
Born (1995-10-29) October 29, 1995[1]
Gose, Nara
Height 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country Japan
Sport Snowboarding
Medal record
Competitor for  Japan
Men's snowboarding
Olympic Games
2014 Sochi Halfpipe
FIS Snowboarding World Championships
2013 Stoneham Halfpipe
Winter X Games
2015 Aspen Superpipe
Winter Youth Olympic Games
2012 Innsbruck Halfpipe
New Zealand Winter Games
2013 Cardrona Halfpipe

Taku Hiraoka (平岡 卓 Hiraoka Taku, born 29 October 1995) is a Japanese snowboarder, from Gose, Nara.

He won silver in the halfpipe at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships.[2] In the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won a bronze in the halfpipe. Later in 2014, he came in second behind American Taylor Gold in the Red Bull Double Pipe.[3][4]

At the 2015 Winter X Games held in Aspen, Colorado Hiraoka won the Silver medal in the Superpipe in finishing second behind American snowboarder Danny Davis' Gold medal effort.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Taku HIRAOKA". sochi2014.com. Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  2. ↑ "Crawford’s World Championship silver medal". Olympic Winter Institute of Australia. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
  3. ↑ Nate Hoppes (March 23, 2014). "Taylor Gold Wins Red Bull Double Pipe". Redbull.com. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Kelly Clark & Taylor Gold Win 2014 US Open Halfpipe Titles". 7skymagazine.ch. March 11, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
  5. ↑ http://xgames.espn.go.com/events/2015/aspen/results/400608549/men-snowboard-superpipe

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