Ayumu Hirano began snowboarding at age four and quickly distinguished himself in the halfpipe, earning professional contracts with manufacturers as a fourth-grade elementary school student.

He won the silver medal in men’s halfpipe at both the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi and the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang.

Hirano even set a Guinness world record as the youngest Olympic medalist in snowboarding when he won his medal at the Sochi Olympic Games at the age of 15 years and 74 days.

He won the world’s ultimate competition, the Winter X Games, in 2016 and 2018, won the FIS World Cup three times in total, and was selected for Forbes Japan’s “30 Under 30 Japan” in 2019 in the sports category, making him unquestionably one of the world’s first-class snowboarders.

At the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, he competed in the men’s park event when skateboarding debuted as an official Olympic sport. He became the first Olympic athlete to represent Japan in both snowboarding and a second sport.

And at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, he selected to perform the triple cork 1440 and won the gold medal.

生年月日

1998年11月29日

国籍

Japan

出身地

Murakami-City, Niigata