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

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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