Hikaru Ōe

	Hikaru Ōe
nation	Japan
birthday	August 3, 1995
place of birth	Toyama
Career
discipline	halfpipe
status	active
Medal table
Snowboard Junior World Championships
	Placements
	World cup
Debut in the World Cup	August 28, 2011
Freestyle World Cup	11. ( 2011/12 )
Halfpipe World Cup	5. ( 2015/16 )
	TTR World Snowboard Tour
Overall rating	64th (2013/14)
Halfpipe rating	43rd (2013/14)
	last change: April 1, 2016

Hikaru Ōe ( Japanese 大江光 , Ōe Hikaru ; born August 3, 1995 in Toyama Prefecture ) is a Japanese snowboarder . She starts in the halfpipe discipline.

Career

Ōe has been participating in the Ticket to Ride World Snowboard Tour and FIS competitions since 2009 . She had her first international success at the 2011 Snowboard Junior World Championships in Valmalenco . There she won the silver medal. In March 2011 she became the Japanese halfpipe champion. She drove her first FIS World Cup race in August 2011 in Cardrona , which she finished in sixth place. She won gold at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Kühtai . In March 2013 she won the Hasco in Ishiuchi Maruyama . At the 2014 Snowboard Jamboree and FIS World Cup races in Stoneham , she came third. At the start of the 2014-15 season, she finished third at the Burton High Fives in Cardrona . At the 2015 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg , she took fourth place. She finished the season in seventh place in the Halfpipe World Cup. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , she finished second at the World Cup in Cardrona . In the further course of the season she was third at the Laax Open in Laax and fifth at the X-Games Oslo 2016 in Oslo . In the World Cup, she finished 12th in Park City and fifth in Sapporo . In March 2016, she finished seventh at the Burton US Open and at the end of the season she finished 12th in the Freestyle World Cup and fifth in the Halfpipe World Cup. She finished fourth at the 2017 Snowboard World Championships in Sierra Nevada .