Ayumu Hirano

Ayumu Hirano
nation	Japan
birthday	29th November 1998 (age 21)
place of birth	Murakami , Japan
Career
discipline	halfpipe
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 0 × Winter X Games 2 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2014 Sochi halfpipe silver 2018 Pyeongchang halfpipe  X-Games silver 2013 Aspen SuperPipe gold 2016 Oslo SuperPipe gold 2018 Aspen SuperPipe
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup August 24, 2013  World Cup victories 3  Freestyle World Cup 3. ( 2017/18 )  Halfpipe World Cup 2. (2017/18)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  halfpipe 3 1 0
TTR World Snowboard Tour
TTR debut 2009  Overall rating 34th (2012/13)  Halfpipe rating 1. (2012/13) last change: October 16, 2018

Ayumu Hirano ( Japanese 平野 歩 夢 , Hirano Ayumu ; born November 29, 1998 in Murakami ) is a Japanese snowboarder . He starts in the halfpipe discipline.

Career

Hirano has been participating in the TTR World Snowboard Tour competitions since 2009 . He won his first victory in March 2011 at the Burton US Junior Open at Stratton Mountain Resort . At the beginning of the 2012/13 season he won the Burton High Fives in Snow Park . This season followed another victory at the Burton European Open 2013 in Laax , a second place at the Burton US Open 2013 in Vail and a third place at The Arctic Challenge in Oslo . At the Winter X Games 2013 in Aspen , he won silver in the SuperPipe competition. He finished the season in first place in the World Snowboard Tour halfpipe rating. In August 2013 he drove his first World Cup race in Cardrona , which he won. In his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014 , he won silver on the halfpipe. The Burton European Open 2015 in Laax, he took second place and at the Burton US Open in 2015 to third place. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he came second on the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge . In January 2016, he won the Laax Open in Laax and finished tenth in the Winter X Games 2016 in Aspen . The following month he won the gold medal at the X-Games Oslo 2016 in Oslo. The following year, he finished ninth in the 2017 Winter X-Games . In the 2017/18 season he won the World Cups in Copper Mountain and Secret Garden Skiresort and took second place in Cardrona. He thus achieved third place in the Freestyle World Cup and second place in the Halfpipe World Cup. He also won the 2018 Winter X Games in Aspen and the Burton US Open. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he won the silver medal in the halfpipe like four years before.

successes

2010/11 season

• 1st place - Burton US Junior Open at Stratton Mountain , Halfpipe

2012/13 season

• 1st place - Burton High Fives in Snow Park , Halfpipe
• 1st place - Burton European Open in Laax , halfpipe
• 1st place - Halfpipe evaluation World Snowboard Tour
• 2nd place - Winter X Games 2013 in Aspen , halfpipe
• 2nd place - Burton US Open in Vail , halfpipe
• 3rd place - The Arctic Challenge in Oslo , halfpipe

2013/14 season

• 1st place - Snowboard World Cup in Cardrona , halfpipe
• 2nd Place - 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , halfpipe

2014/15 season

• 2nd place - Burton European Open in Laax , halfpipe
• 3rd place - Burton US Open in Vail , Halfpipe

2015/16 season

• 1st place - Laax Open in Laax , halfpipe
• 1st place - X-Games Oslo 2016 in Oslo , halfpipe
• 2nd place - Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge , halfpipe

Season 2017/18

• 1st place - Snowboard World Cup in Copper Mountain , halfpipe
• 1st place - Snowboard World Cup in Secret Garden , halfpipe
• 1st place - Winter X Games 2018 in Aspen , halfpipe
• 1st place - Burton US Open in Vail , halfpipe
• 2nd place - Snowboard World Cup in Cardrona , halfpipe
• 2nd place - Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang 2018 , halfpipe
• 2nd place - Halfpipe World Cup
• 3rd place - Freestyle World Cup

Web links

• Ayumu Hirano in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ayumu Hirano in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ayumu Hirano's profile on worldsnowboardtour.com
• Ayumu Hirano's profile on xgames.espn.go.com