Sora Shirai
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| Native name | 白井 空良 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 November 2001 Sagamihara, Japan[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Skateboarding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goofy-footed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 2nd – street (August 2024)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sora Shirai (白井 空良, Shirai Sora; born 3 November 2001) is a Japanese professional skateboarder who lives and skates in Kanagawa, Japan.[3][4][5] In 2019, at the age of 17, Shirai released his first full length professional skateboarding skate part in the Blind Skateboards video Time Change.[6][7][8]
Skateboarding career
[edit]Skate video parts
[edit]- 2019: Time Change - Blind[9]
Competitions
[edit]2019
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "SHIRAI Sora". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
- ↑ "Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings – Street, Male". World Skate. 6 August 2024. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
- ↑ "Sora Shirai – Time Change Part Raw Cut". www.vhsmag.com (in Japanese). 7 October 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ↑ "Sora Shirai Highlights | 2nd Place Men's Street Winner". Dew Tour. 13 July 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ↑ Hopkin, James (June 19, 2019). "Why is no one is talking about Sora Shirai?". Hopkin Skate. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ↑ "Sora Shirai drops his full length skate part for Blind Skateboards "Time Change"". Elevator. 3 September 2019.
- ↑ "Blind Skateboards Sora's 'Time Change' Part". Salad Days Magazine. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ↑ "Tomorrow: Sora Shirai's 'Time Change' Part". The Berrics. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ↑ "'Time Change': Sora Shirai's Blind Skateboards Part". The Berrics. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ↑ "2019 Damn Am Japan: How Sora Shira Won – SPoT Life". TransWorld Skateboarding. 14 April 2019.
- ↑ "Skateboarding: Yuto Horigome wins street title at X Games, Shirai 3rd". Kyodo News. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
External links
[edit]- Sora Shirai at World Skate (alternative link)
- Sora Shirai at The Boardr
- Sora Shirai at SPoT
- Sora Shirai at the X Games
- Sora Shirai at Olympics.com
- Sora Shirai at Olympedia
- Sora Shirai at InterSportStats
- Sora Shirai at Team Japan (in Japanese) (in English)
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- 2001 births
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- Japanese skateboarders
- Olympic skateboarders for Japan
- Skateboarders at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Skateboarders at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- World Skateboarding Championship medalists
- X Games competitors
- Sportspeople from Sagamihara
- 21st-century Japanese sportsmen
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