Taku Hiraoka

Taku Hiraoka, written 平岡 卓 in Japanese, was born on 29 October 1995 and is a Japanese snowboarder from Gose, Nara, who competes in the halfpipe. He won silver in the halfpipe at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships and a bronze in the halfpipe at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Later in 2014 he came second behind the American Taylor Gold in the Red Bull Double Pipe, and at the 2015 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado he won silver in the superpipe behind Danny Davis. On 27 October 2020 he was found guilty in a hit and run case from the previous year that injured six people, in which he had been driving under the influence of alcohol, and was given a 30-month suspended prison sentence.