Yūto Totsuka

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Yūto Totsuka Snowboard
nation JapanJapan Japan
birthday September 27, 2001
Career
status active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
X-Games 0 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Snowboard world championships
silver 2019 Park City halfpipe
Winter X Games logo X-Games
silver 2019 Aspen SuperPipe
silver 2020 Aspen SuperPipe
Placements
FIS logo World cup
 Debut in the World Cup September 8, 2017
 World Cup victories 4th
 Freestyle World Cup 2. ( 2017/18 , 2019/20 )
 Halfpipe World Cup 1. (2017/18, 2018/19 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 halfpipe 4th 5 3
last change: April 12, 2020

Yūto Totsuka ( Japanese 戸 塚 優 斗 , Totsuka Yūto ; born September 27, 2001 ) is a Japanese snowboarder . He starts in the halfpipe discipline .

Career

Totsuka has been participating in the TTR World Snowboard Tour competitions since 2013 . He won in the 2015/16 season at the superpipe session in Takasu and took second place in the halfpipe competition in Nango . The following year he became the Japanese champion in the half pipe. He made his World Cup debut in September 2017 in Cardrona . He won the half-pipe competition. This was followed by third place in the Secret Garden Skiresort and Snowmass and second place at the Laax Open and World Cup in Laax . He won the Halfpipe World Cup and finished second in the Freestyle World Cup. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he came 11th in the halfpipe. He won Calgary and Mammoth in the 2018/19 season . He also came in second in Laax and third in Secret Garden Skiresort and thus achieved third place in the Freestyle World Cup and first place in the Halfpipe World Cup. He won the silver medal at the Winter X Games 2019 in Aspen and the Snowboard World Championships 2019 in Park City . He became the Japanese halfpipe champion in February 2019 and took third place at the Burton US Open in March 2019 . In the following season he achieved three second places and one victory in Mammoth, second place each in freestyle and in the halfpipe World Cup. He also won the Burton US Open and finished second on the Winter Dew Tour in Copper Mountain . He won the silver medal at the Winter X Games 2020 .

World Cup victories

No. date place discipline
1. September 8, 2017 New ZealandNew Zealand Cardrona halfpipe
2. 15th February 2019 CanadaCanada Calgary halfpipe
3. March 9, 2019 United StatesUnited States Mammoth halfpipe
4th January 31, 2020 United StatesUnited States Mammoth halfpipe

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