Ayumu Hirano

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 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. He also competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as a skateboarder, becoming one of the two athletes, the other being Jaqueline Mourão, who participated in all of the three consecutive Olympic Games in East Asia between 2018 and 2022.

Ayumu Hirano
Hirano in 2022
Personal information
Born (1998-11-29) 29 November 1998
Murakami, Niigata
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
CountryJapan
SportSnowboarding
Coached byElijah Teter
Medal record
Men's snowboarding
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
2022 BeijingHalfpipe
2014 SochiHalfpipe
2018 PyeongchangHalfpipe
Winter X Games
2016 OsloSuperPipe
2018 AspenSuperPipe
2013 AspenSuperPipe
2022 AspenSuperPipe
Burton Global Open Series
2018 US OpenHalfPipe
2013 US OpenHalfPipe
2015 US OpenHalfPipe
2013 European OpenHalfPipe
2015 European OpenHalfPipe
FIS Snowboard World Cup
2021-22 GlobalHalfpipe
Laax Open
2022 LaaxHalfPipe
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