Ruka Hirano

Ruka Hirano
nation	Japan
birthday	March 12, 2002
Career
status	active
Medal table
Youth Olympic Games 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Youth Olympic Winter Games gold Lausanne 2020 halfpipe  Snowboard Junior World Championships silver 2018 Cardrona halfpipe gold 2019 Leysin halfpipe
Placements
World cup
Debut in the World Cup December 8, 2018  World Cup victories 1  Freestyle World Cup 4. ( 2018/19 , 2019/20 )  Halfpipe World Cup 2. (2018/19)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  halfpipe 1 2 3
last change: April 13, 2020

Ruka Hirano ( Japanese 平野 流 佳 Hirano Ruka ; born March 12, 2002 ) is a Japanese snowboarder . He starts in the halfpipe discipline .

Career

Hirano had his first international success at the 2018 Junior Snowboarding World Championships in Cardrona . There he won the silver medal. At the beginning of the 2018/19 season he started the World Cup in Copper Mountain for the first time and finished in 15th place. In the further course of the season he achieved second place in the Secret Garden Ski Resort and in Calgary and thus reached fourth place in the Freestyle World Cup and second place in the Halfpipe World Cup. In January 2019 he won the gold medal at the Junior World Championships in Leysin . At the season highlight, the 2019 Snowboard World Championships in Park City , he came in 13th place. In the 2019/20 season he came third at the World Cup in Copper Mountain, Secret Garden Skiresort and Mammoth . He also won his first World Cup victory in Calgary and at the end of the season he finished fourth in the Freestyle World Cup and third in the Halfpipe World Cup. He won the halfpipe gold medal at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne .

Web links

• Ruka Hirano in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Ruka Hirano on worldsnowboardtour.com