Taiga Hasegawa

Taiga Hasegawa, written 長谷川 帝勝 in Japanese, was born on 23 October 2005 and is a Japanese snowboarder in big air and slopestyle. He won big air gold with a score of 177.25 at the 2023 Snowboarding World Championships and big air silver with 174.50 at the 2025 championships. At the 2024 Winter X Games he became the first snowboarder to land a switch backside 1980 in competition and won gold in big air, and in January 2025 he took X Games silver in big air and bronze in slopestyle. At the 2026 Winter Olympics he won the silver medal in slopestyle with a score of 82.13.