Imai became the Japanese halfpipe champion in 2014 and 2016. She took second place on the US Revolution Tour at Copper Mountain in December 2014 and first place the following year. In February 2016 she started the World Cup in Sapporo for the first time and finished 14th. In the 2016/17 season she achieved two top ten finishes in the World Cup, and ninth place in the Halfpipe World Cup. In February 2017 she won the bronze medal at the Winter Asian Games in Sapporo. At the Snowboard World Championships 2017 in Sierra Nevada she came in 12th place. The following season she won the US Revolution Tour in Copper Mountain and finished 15th in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . In the 2018/19 season she was among the top ten in all four World Cup participations, including third place in the Secret Garden Skiresort and thus reached tenth place in the Freestyle World Cup and fifth place in the Halfpipe World Cup. At the season highlight, the Snowboard World Championships 2019 in Park City , she came in seventh. In March 2019 she won the gold medal at the Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk . In the following season she achieved four top ten placements, 19th place in the Freestyle World Cup and seventh place in the Halfpipe World Cup. She won the silver medal at the Winter X Games 2020 in Aspen .
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