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April 1, 2024 (Monday)

We are pleased to announce that four snowboarders, Shin-Kaban Murase (Big Air/Slope Style), Yuo Shimizu (Half Pipe), Risei Kudo (Half Pipe), Riso Kudo (Half Pipe), and Sarah Shimizu (Half Pipe), have signed contracts with IFING Co. (Head office: Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Eisho Fuyu Hiro; Brand name: TOKIO Inkarami) from April 1, 2024.

I am pleased to report to you all.
(A press conference was recently held on Thursday, May 9, 2024 to announce his affiliation.

(From left to right: Sara Shimizu, Fuyuhiro Kogyo, Yoshi Murase, Shinba Murase, Risei Kudo)

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MURASE Cocomo
- Big Air/Slope Style

He started snowboarding at the age of 4 under the influence of his father, and started slopestyle when he was in the first grade of elementary school. Steadily achieving good results in competitions in Japan, he qualified as a professional in Japan as a 4th grader. The following year, he won the World Rookie Finals. In addition to competitions, his backside double cork 1080 became a worldwide sensation when he distributed his video.
In 2018, she won the Big Air event at the world's most prestigious XGames in Norway with a backside double cork 1260, an unprecedented feat for a female competitor, at the young age of 13 in a field of top international competitors.
At the 2022 Beijing Olympics, she competed in two events and won a bronze medal in the big air event, breaking Figure Skater Mao Asada's record as the youngest Japanese female Winter Olympics medalist.
In 2023, she will contribute to the development of women's snowboarding by becoming the first woman in history to score 1440 BS in a competition and win back-to-back World Cup titles. 26 years later, she will aim for the top spot at the Milan Olympics.

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Official Positions in International Trade Agreements
- Big Air/Slope Style

She started snowboarding under the influence of her older sister, and in the 2016/2017 season she became the youngest woman in the history of the Japan Snowboard Association (JSBA) at the time to earn her professional certification.
He went on to win three consecutive Pro Tour events with the Pro Snowboarders Association Asia (PSA Asia), an association of professionals certified by national associations in Asia, and was named Pro Tour Champion and Best Rider of the Year at the age of just 11 years old. In the 2020/2021 season, at just 13 years of age, he was selected as a national designated athlete by the All Japan Ski Federation, a member of the Japanese Olympic Committee.
In 2022, he won the Jr. World Championships in Switzerland in the slopestyle event, and in his first competition of the 22/23 season, he placed 4th in his first World Cup competition. He will continue to perform well in World Cup and professional World Championships, and aims to compete in the Olympics.

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KUDO Rise
- half-hype

Influenced by her father, who coached men's halfpipe gold medalist Ayumu Hirano at the Beijing Olympics, she started halfpipe skiing at the age of 3. Since her junior year, she has won consecutive races, and in the 2020-21 season, she was selected for the national high school and under team at the age of 11, the youngest female skier ever selected for the team.
In 2023, as a first-year junior high school student, she competed in the All-Japan Championships, where she became the youngest champion with her Cab1080, a huge move that few top female skaters can pull off. She was the youngest skater to win the championship, and the only female skater to score in the 90s at the Youth Olympic Games in Korea in February 2012. She is a treasure of the Japanese snowboarding world who will surely shine at the top of the world in the future.

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SHIMIZU Sara
- half-hype

Started snowboarding at the age of 4, won the JSBA All-Japan Championships in 5th grade, became the youngest girl in Japan to qualify as a JSBA pro, and is aiming for the Olympics in the halfpipe.
He aims to become the world's number one with techniques that include vertical rotation, which is one of his strengths.
His current specialty is the backside 900.
2024 IOC Youth Olympic runner-up
2024 JOC Junior Olympic Cup champion
Runner-up, FIS 30th All Japan Ski Championships, 2024