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| Born | 29 November 1998 Murakami, Niigata[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Snowboarding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Elijah Teter,[2] Ben Boyd | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. 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,[3] 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.[4] 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.[5][6]
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- ^ "xgames superpipe results". espn.com. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
- ^ "Olympics-Snowboarding-Men's halfpipe finals results – Yahoo Sports". sports.yahoo.com. 11 February 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ "Ayumu Hirano a step closer to Tokyo 2020 skateboarding dream". Olympic Channel. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ^ "Ayumu Hirano". NHK. Retrieved 11 August 2021.