Taku Hiraoka

Taku Hiraoka (平岡 卓, Hiraoka Taku; born 29 October 1995) is a Japanese snowboarder, from Gose, Nara.

Taku Hiraoka

Personal information
Born	(1995-10-29) October 29, 1995 (age 29)[1] Gose, Nara
Height	171 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country	Japan
Sport	Snowboarding
Medal record Men's snowboarding Representing  Japan Olympic Games 2014 Sochi Halfpipe FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2013 Stoneham Halfpipe Winter X Games 2015 Aspen Superpipe Winter Youth Olympic Games 2012 Innsbruck Halfpipe New Zealand Winter Games 2013 Cardrona Halfpipe

He won silver in the halfpipe at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships.^[2] 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.^[3][4]

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.^[5]

On October 27, 2020, Hiraoka was found guilty and given a 30-month suspended prison sentence in a hit and run case that occurred the previous year and had injured six people. Hiraoka had been driving under the influence of alcohol and fled the scene after the accident.^[6]