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Kanoa Igarashi (born October 1, 1997) is a Japanese American surfer who has competed professionally worldwide since 2012. In 2016, he was the youngest rookie on the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), and had collected more Round One wins than any other surfer, finished 2nd place at the Pipeline event, and 20th place overall that year.[1] His greatest career performance was in the 2019 WSL CT where he won the Corona Bali Protected event and placed 6th place overall that year.[2]

Kanoa Igarashi
Personal information
Born	(1997-10-01) October 1, 1997 (age 24) Huntington Beach, California, U.S.
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight	171 lb (78 kg)
Surfing career
Years active	Since 2012 (9)
Best year	2019 - Ranked #6 WSL CT World Tour
Sponsors	Red Bull, Quiksilver, Oakley, Beats by Dr. Dre, Shiseido, G-Shock
Major achievements	WSL Championship Tour event wins: 1 2x US Open of Surfing champion (2017, 2018) Surfers' Hall of Fame inductee 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games silver Medal
Surfing specifications
Stance	Regular (natural foot)

Olympic medal record
Men's surfing
Representing  Japan
Olympic Games
	2020 Tokyo	Shortboard

Kanoa Igarashi
Japanese name
Kanji	五十嵐カノア
Transcriptions Romanization Igarashi Kanoa

Childhood

Igarashi's father Tsutomu was a surfer in Japan and an avid fan of the sport himself. When his wife Misa found out she was pregnant, the couple quit their jobs in Tokyo and moved to Huntington Beach, California, aka Surf City, with the goal of raising their child to be a competitive surfer.[3] Tsutomu took his son surfing as young as age 3, and would routinely wake him up to go surfing by 5:45AM so he could still make it to school on time.[4] Igarashi won his first surfing trophy by age 7.[4]

Career

In 2016 he entered as the youngest rookie to the WSL CT and the first representative surfer for Japan in the WSL.[1] He won the Vans U.S. Open WSL event in his hometown of Huntington Beach two years in a row in 2017 and 2018, but was eliminated early the following year.[5] Igarashi's first 1st-place finish at a WSL CT event was at the Corona Bali Protected event in Indonesia in 2019; he placed 6th overall that year.[2]

As a top ranked finisher of the 2019 WSL CT, Igarashi qualified to compete in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo as a representative of Japan. The games were postponed to July 23, 2021, due to the 2019 coronavirus outbreak.[6] The selected beach break for the competition was at Tsurigasaki beach in the town of Ichinomiya, Chiba prefecture.[7] The chosen beach had special meaning to Igarashi as it was the same beach that his father Tsutomu not only surfed at, but also reportedly discovered with his friends and called "the Dojo".[8] Igarashi won the silver medal in the competition.[9]

Igarashi is a Red Bull Athlete.

WSL World Championship Tour

Tournament	2016	2017	2018	2019
Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast	9th	25th	9th	9th
Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach	13th	25th	25th	9th
Corona Bali Protected	-	-	25th	1st
Margaret River Pro	13th	13th	25th	9th
Oi Rio Pro	13th	9th	9th	5th
Corona Open J-Bay	13th	25th	3rd	5th
Billabong Pro Tahiti Teahupoo	13th	13th	9th	17th
Freshwater Pro	-	-	3rd	9th
Quiksilver Pro France	13th	25th	25th	17th
MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal	13th	3rd	5th	3rd
Billabong Pipeline Masters	2nd	3rd	13th	17th
Fiji Pro	13th	25th	-	-
Hurley Pro at Trestles	13th	5th	-	-
OVERALL RANK	20th	17th	10th	6th
Earnings	$157,250	$153,250	$174,600	$253,900

References

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Kanoa Igarashi est un surfeur professionnel américain d'origine japonaise né le 1er octobre 1997 à Santa Monica, en Californie. Il se qualifie pour la première fois pour le Championship Tour en 2016.

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