This article is about the snowboarder. For the water polo player, see Yuki Kadono (water polo).
Yuki Kadono
Native name角野 友基
Birth date18 May 1996 (age 30)
Birth placeMiki, Japan
CountryJapan
SportSnowboarding
EventSlopestyle
TeamJapan (2014)
Olympics2014
Height5 ft 8 in
Weight141 lb

Yuki Kadono (角野 友基, Kadono Yūki) is a Japanese snowboarder who competes in the slopestyle event.[1]

Born in Miki, Hyōgo, Japan, he competed for Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, qualifying for the final of the slopestyle event and finishing 8th overall.[2]

Kadono won the Nokia Air and Style in Beijing in 2012, at the age of 16, making him one of the youngest to win the event besides Shaun White.[citation needed] He was the 2012–13 overall World Cup Champion in the slopestyle event.[3]

Kadono placed 3rd in Big Air at the 2015 X Games in Aspen and first at the 2016 X games in Oslo.[4][5] He won the 2015 Burton US Open Slopestyle with the first ever Back-To-Back Triple Cork 1620s.[6]

Despite being considered a medal contender by observers including Tyler Nicholson and Transworld Snowboarding, Kadono was not selected for the 2018 Winter Olympics, with reports indicating that this was due to a code of conduct violation.[7][8]

In 2020, he won his second Burton US Open Slopestyle victory.[9]

References

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  2. ^ "Yuki Kadono". www.sochi2014.com. Archived from the original on 6 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  3. ^ "The Japan News"
  4. ^ "Aspen 2015 Snowboard Big Air". X Games. Retrieved 2016-09-07.[dead link]
  5. ^ "Oslo 2016 Men's Snowboard Big Air". X Games. Archived from the original on 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2016-09-07.
  6. ^ Burton (2015-03-06), "Yuki Kadono Stomps First Ever Back to Back 1620s in Competition at the 2015 Burton US Open", retrieved 2019-03-26
  7. ^ Bird, T (29 August 2017). "2018 Winter Olympic Predictions: Will Japan's Best Bet for Gold Make the Team?". Transworld Snowboarding. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  8. ^ Zaccardi, Nick (9 February 2018). "One of the world's best snowboarders isn't in PyeongChang". nbcolympics.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
  9. ^ "The First Ever Quad Cork Landed At The U.S. Open... and Everything Else From Slopestyle!". SNOWBOARDER Magazine. 2020-02-29. Retrieved 2020-03-06.