Yūto Totsuka
Japanese snowboarder
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Nationality | Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (2001-09-27) 27 September 2001 (age 22) Yokohama, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Snowboarding | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Halfpipe | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Yonex | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yūto Totsuka (戸塚優斗, Totsuka Yūto, born 27 September 2001) is a Japanese snowboarder who competed in the men's halfpipe at the 2018 Winter Olympics. He finished 11th overall.[1] He fell during the final, hitting the edge of the halfpipe and injuring his hip, and had to be evacuated by medics.[2][3]
Totsuka took the silver medal at the 2020 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado behind the gold medalist Scotty James.[4]
References
- ^ "Yuto Totsuka". PyeongChang2018.com. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
- ^ Scott Davis (14 February 2018). "16-year-old Japanese snowboarder suffers horrifying fall in men's halfpipe and gets taken out on stretcher". Business Insider – via San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Phil Rosenthal (14 February 2018). "Why thrill of Shaun White soaring, agony of Yuto Totsuka's crash will stick with us". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Aspen 2020 Monster Energy Men's Snowboard SuperPipe".
External links
- Yūto Totsuka at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Yūto Totsuka at Olympedia
- Yūto Totsuka at Olympics.com
- Yūto Totsuka at the X Games
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- 1996: Ross Powers (USA)
- 1997: Fabien Rohrer (SUI)
- 1999: Ricky Bower (USA)
- 2001: Kim Christiansen (NOR)
- 2003: Markus Keller (SUI)
- 2005: Antti Autti (FIN)
- 2007: Mathieu Crépel (FRA)
- 2009: Ryō Aono (JPN)
- 2011: Nathan Johnstone (AUS)
- 2013: Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI)
- 2015: Scotty James (AUS)
- 2017: Scotty James (AUS)
- 2019: Scotty James (AUS)
- 2021: Yūto Totsuka (JPN)
- 2023: Lee Chae-un (KOR)