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| Full name | Taku Hiraoka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
October 29, 1995 Gose, Nara |
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| Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Snowboarding | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taku Hiraoka (平岡 卓 Hiraoka Taku?, born 29 October 1995) is a Japanese snowboarder, from Gose, Nara.
He won silver in the halfpipe at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships. In the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won a bronze in the halfpipe. Later in 2014, he came in second behind American Taylor Gold in the Red Bull Double Pipe.
At the 2015 Winter X Games held in Aspen, Colorado Hiraoka won the Silver medal in the Superpipe in finishing second behind American snowboarder Danny Davis' Gold medal effort.