Yūto Totsuka

Yūto Totsuka is a Japanese snowboarder and Olympic gold medalist, born on 27 September 2001 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, who competes in the halfpipe. He started snowboarding at the age of three, began practicing the halfpipe in third grade, and was later coached by the former Japanese snowboarders Maki Mitsui and Raibu Katayama. He finished 11th in the men's halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Olympics after a fall in the final injured his hip, and took the silver medal at the 2020 Winter X Games in Aspen behind Scotty James. At the 2026 Winter Olympics he won the gold medal on February 13 with a score of 95.00 on his second run, built around a cab triple cork 1440, narrowly ahead of Scotty James's 93.50.