He started snowboarding at the age of four and made his mark on the halfpipe early on, signing a professional contract with a manufacturer in the fourth grade.

He won silver medals in the men's halfpipe at the 2014 Sochi and 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.

His medal win at the Sochi Olympics at the age of 15 years and 74 days was recognized by Guinness World Records as the youngest Olympic medalist in snowboarding.

He is a world-class snowboarder in both name and reality, having won the Winter X Games, the world's most prestigious competition, in 2016 and 2018, and a total of three FIS World Cup wins, and in 2019, he was named to Forbes Japan's 30 Under 30 Japan in the sports category

He competed in the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics in the "Park" skateboarding event, which was newly added as an official event. As a member of Japan's national team, he challenged the first-ever dual sport of snowboarding and skateboarding.

And at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal with a triple-cork 1440!。

Date of Birth

November 29, 1998

nationality

Japan

birthplace

Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture