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Hirano Ayumu: Snowboarding and skateboarding. Hirano is more than just a winter Olympian. At the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 in 2021, he was selected to compete in the skateboarding men's park competition, an event making its debut on the Olympic Games programme. Although he was eliminated from the preliminary rounds, Hirano became just the fifth ...
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.He won the silver medal in the superpipe in 2013 Winter X Games XVII at the age of 14, becoming the youngest medalist in X Games history, and won silver medals in the half-pipe at both the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the ...
Hirano Ayumu may not ply his trade on the baseball diamond like the pitcher-slugger for the Los Angeles Angels but on 21 May, nearly 9,900km away from Tokyo, Hirano made Olympic history by becoming the first athlete to qualify for both the Games’ skateboarding and snowboarding competitions.
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 gold medal.
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.
Aug 5, 2021 · The 22-year-old Hirano, Shaun White's primary rival in Olympic snowboarding, qualified for the Tokyo Games in May and was the only Japanese man in the park skateboarding field. His highest run score in prelims was 62.03, but it took a 73.00 to make the final. Hirano won back-to-back silver medals on the halfpipe at the 2014 and 2018 Olympics.
Aug 4, 2021 · Hirano, 22, went from snowboarding prodigy who won an X Games medal at 14 to a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the halfpipe. He was just 15 when he won his first Olympic medal in Sochi.
