Yūto Totsuka
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| Nationality | Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 September 2001 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
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
