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Taku Hiraoka

Taku Hiraoka
Personal information
Full name Taku Hiraoka
Born (1995-10-29) October 29, 1995 (age 21)
Gose, Nara
Height 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country Japan
Sport Snowboarding

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.



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