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Ayumu Hirano (平野 歩夢, Hirano Ayumu, born 29 November 1998) is a Japanese Olympic champion and three-time Olympic medalist snowboarder and Olympic skateboarder.
Feb 11, 2022 · Ayumu Hirano of Japan lands another epic run with a triple cork, daring the judges to keep him behind Scotty James. This time, they give him a 96, the highest score of the day — and the...
Feb 11, 2022 · Ayumu Hirano of Japan was the first to land a triple cork in the Olympics on his way to capturing the gold medal and beating a deep field of medal contenders that included Shaun...
Hirano Ayumu will attempt to earn his long-sought-after Olympic gold medal when the men's snowboard halfpipe competition gets underway on 9 February at Genting Snow Park. Incredibly, Beijing 2022 will be the Japanese's second Olympic Games in the space of six months after he competed in the skateboarding competition at Tokyo 2020.
Feb 11, 2022 · Ayumu Hirano linked his trendsetting, once-thought-impossible triple-cork trick to four more rock-solid jumps to win gold on the Olympic halfpipe Friday. That gave him a score of 96 and vaulted him in front of Australian Scotty James to take the title that has barely eluded him at the last two Winter Games.
- Pat Graham
At the age of 15, Hirano won an unexpected silver medal, becoming the youngest Japanese athlete to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. Four years later in his second Olympic Games appearance at PyeongChang 2018, he landed the first double cork 1440 trick in Olympic history.
Feb 10, 2022 · The 23-year-old snowboarding star from Japan landed triple corks on all three of his runs, but it was his final one — the final run of the contest — that knocked Australia's Scotty James off the top of the leaderboard in the men's snowboard halfpipe final.
