Hirano has been taking part in competitions of the FIS and the TTR World Snowboard Tour since 2009 . He took his first podium finish in August 2010 at the Burton New Zealand Open Snowboarding Championships in Cardrona with second place. In 2010 and 2011 he was junior world champion on the halfpipe. He drove his first World Cup race in February 2011 in Stoneham , which he finished in second place. At the 2011 Snowboard World Championships in La Molina , he came ninth. In 2011 and 2012 he became the Japanese halfpipe champion. He won bronze at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Kühtai . In February 2012 he came fourth at the 2012 Snowboard World Championships in Oslo . A week later he again came second at the FIS World Cup race in Stoneham . He finished the season in fifth place in the FIS freestyle overall ranking and fourth in the FIS halfpipe ranking. In the 2012/13 season he came in third place at the Dew Tour - Mountain Championships in Breckenridge . At the 2013 Snowboard World Championships in Stoneham , he won silver on the halfpipe. He achieved his first victory in an FIS World Cup race in February 2013 in Sochi . In March 2013 he won bronze at the Winter X Games Europe in Tignes and at the Japanese championship in Niseko . At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he finished second at the FIS World Cup races in Cardrona and first at the Burton High Fives in Cardrona . In his first Olympic participation in Sochi in 2014, he won bronze on the halfpipe. In March 2014, he finished second at the Burton US Open in Vail . He finished the season in first place in the World Snowboard Tour halfpipe rating. In January 2015, he came fifth at the 2015 Snowboard World Championships on Kreischberg . A week later he won silver in the SuperPipe competition at the 2015 Winter X Games in Aspen . At the 2015 Burton US Open he won the halfpipe. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he finished second at the World Cup in Cardrona . He finished seventh at the Winter X Games 2016 in Aspen and tenth at the X Games Oslo 2016 in Oslo. In March 2016, he finished third at the Burton US Open in Vail . At the end of the season he finished fourth in the Halfpipe World Cup. In the 2016/17 season he finished eighth at the 2017 Winter X Games and fourth at the 2017 Snowboard World Championships in Sierra Nevada . At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he finished in 13th place.
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