Kaishu Hirano

Kaishu Hirano carries one of the heaviest surnames in snowboarding. Born in Murakami, Niigata, in October 2002, he competed at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics — an achievement most riders would build an entire career around, and yet the first thing anyone says about him tends to involve his older brother. I find that genuinely unfair, and also unavoidable. Halfpipe is a discipline where the family name gets shouted before the run even starts, and the only way out of a shadow that size is to keep dropping in anyway. Our record on him is thin: no listed height, no agency, no medal tally. That thinness is worth admitting rather than papering over with invented color. What I can say is that qualifying for an Olympic Games is not something a relative can hand you. He got there on his own board, in his own run, under a name that magnifies every mistake. I hope the next time I write about him, the comparison feels beside the point.

Name (English)

Kaishu Hirano

Name (Japanese)

平野海祝

Reading

ひらの かいしゅう

Born

October 14, 2002 (age 23)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Horse

Origin

Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

snowboarder

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/4kaishu/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaishu%20Hirano
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%B3%E9%87%8E%E6%B5%B7%E7%A5%9D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81903595

Tags

• Niigata Prefecture
• snowboarder

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.