A snowboarder makes history (despite a fracture)

On January 24th, during the X Games in Aspen, Colorado, a highly recognized extreme sports competition, the young Japanese snowboarder, Hiroto Ogiwara, made history.

In fact, the 20-year-old athlete achieved the very first recorded 2340 in the history of an official competition!

A 2340 is a trick that consists of performing six and a half rotations in the air. As soon as he took off from the jump, Ogiwara immediately began his spin, giving himself the necessary time to complete the entire maneuver before finishing his run by landing in front of the spectators while celebrating his feat. This is a milestone, so we can understand his excitement.

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The judges gave him a score of 97.33, securing the gold medal with nearly 3 points ahead of Taiga Hasegawa in second place. Notably, Rocco Jamieson completed the podium trio.

This achievement was made despite the fact that Ogiwara had sustained a minor fracture in his arm during a prior training session. He had received the green light to participate in the tournament, but one might still think he wasn’t at 100%, nonetheless. This information makes this accomplishment even more impressive, and hats off to the young man for his remarkable resilience!

The young athlete continues to make waves in his field, having been on a steady rise since his official debut in 2017, starting competitions of this kind at the age of 12.

He is particularly known for his triumphs at the Japanese junior ski championships, in addition to having won major honors at the senior level afterward (2021 and 2022).

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