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| Born | (1995-10-29) October 29, 1995 (age 29) Gose, Nara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Snowboarding | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taku Hiraoka (平岡 卓, Hiraoka Taku, born 29 October 1995) is a Japanese snowboarder, from Gose, Nara.
He won silver in the halfpipe at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships. In the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won a bronze in the halfpipe. Later in 2014, he came in second behind American Taylor Gold in the Red Bull Double Pipe.
At the 2015 Winter X Games held in Aspen, Colorado Hiraoka won the silver medal in the Superpipe in finishing second behind American snowboarder Danny Davis' Gold medal effort.
On October 27, 2020, Hiraoka was found guilty and given a 30-month suspended prison sentence in a hit and run case that occurred the previous year and had injured 6 people. Hiraoka had been driving under the influence of alcohol and fled the scene after the accident.
References
- "Taku HIRAOKA". sochi2014.com. Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- "Crawford's World Championship silver medal". Olympic Winter Institute of Australia. 21 January 2013. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
- Nate Hoppes (March 23, 2014). "Taylor Gold Wins Red Bull Double Pipe". Redbull.com. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
- "Kelly Clark & Taylor Gold Win 2014 US Open Halfpipe Titles". 7skymagazine.ch. March 11, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
- "Aspen 2015 Men's Snowboard SuperPipe". Archived from the original on January 23, 2015.
- "Olympic medalist Taku Hiraoka convicted in hit-and-run case". The Japan Times. 2020-10-29. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
External links
- Taku Hiraoka at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Taku Hiraoka at the X Games (archived)
- Taku Hiraoka at Olympics.com
- Taku Hiraoka at Olympedia (archive)
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