Yuki Kadono

This article is about the snowboarder. For the water polo player, see Yuki Kadono (water polo).

Yuki Kadono (角野 友基, Kadono Yūki; born May 18, 1996) is a Japanese snowboarder who competes in the slopestyle event.^[1]

Yuki Kadono

Personal information
Native name	角野 友基
Born	(1996-05-18) 18 May 1996 (age 29) Miki, Japan
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight	141 lb (64 kg)
Sport
Country	Japan
Sport	Snowboarding
Event	Slopestyle
Team	Japan (2014)
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2014
Medal record Men's snowboarding Representing  Japan Winter X Games 2016 Oslo Big Air 2014 Aspen Big Air 2015 Aspen Big Air 2019 Oslo Big air 2016 Aspen Big Air 2018 Aspen Big Air

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]