Yuki Kadono, born May 18, 1996, in Miki, Hyogo, is a Japanese snowboarder who competes in the slopestyle event. He competed for Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, qualifying for the slopestyle final and finishing 8th overall. At age 16 he won the Nokia Air and Style in Beijing in 2012, making him one of the youngest to win the event besides Shaun White, and he was the 2012-13 overall World Cup champion in slopestyle. He placed third in Big Air at the 2015 X Games in Aspen and first at the 2016 X Games in Oslo, and he won the 2015 Burton US Open Slopestyle with the first ever back-to-back triple cork 1620s. He was not selected for the 2018 Winter Olympics, and in 2020 he won his second Burton US Open Slopestyle victory.
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is a Japanese snowboarder who competes in the slopestyle event
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he competed for Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
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Kadono placed 3rd in Big Air at the 2015 X Games in Aspen
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