Taku Hiraoka
Taku Hiraoka is a Japanese snowboarder, from Gose, Nara.
He won silver in the halfpipe at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships. 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.
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.
