Kanoa
Igarashi
Date of birth | 1 October 1997 |
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Place of birth | Huntington Beach, California, USA |
Age | 26 |
Nationality | Japan |
Disciplines | Surfing Competition |
Kanoa Igarashi has been surfing for as long as he can remember. His dad first put him on a surfboard in Huntington Beach, USA at the age of just three. He took to the sport with natural talent, competing in his first surf contest (which he won) at the age of six.
Since then, Igarashi, whose parents immigrated to the US from Tokyo, Japan, has taken the surf world by storm. At age 14, he became the youngest surfer ever to win the US National Championships for under-18s and that same year won the Governor’s Cup at the Surfing America Championships and took second in the King of Groms Championships.