Sora Shirai
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| 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]- Damn Am Japan: 1st[10]
- Skate Ark Japan: 1st
- Dew Tour - Long Beach (street): 2nd
- X Games Minneapolis (street): 3rd [11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sora Shirai". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
- ^ "Olympic World Skateboarding Rankings – Street, Male". World Skate. 2024-08-06. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
- ^ "Sora Shirai – Time Change Part Raw Cut". www.vhsmag.com (in Japanese). 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- ^ "Sora Shirai Highlights | 2nd Place Men's Street Winner". Dew Tour. 2019-07-13. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ Hopkin, James (June 19, 2019). "Why is no one is talking about Sora Shirai?". Hopkin Skate. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ "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 2019-10-16.
- ^ "Tomorrow: Sora Shirai's 'Time Change' Part". The Berrics. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
- ^ "'Time Change': Sora Shirai's Blind Skateboards Part". The Berrics. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ "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 2019-08-05.
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