Kanoa Igarashi: Surfing – Red Bull Athlete Profile
Kanoa Igarashi performs during a surf session in Huatulco, Mexico on August 7th, 2021.
Kanoa Igarashi poses for a portrait in Tokyo, Japan on October 29, 2022.

Kanoa
Igarashi

Japan

Japan

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Surfing

Japanese surfer Kanoa Igarashi feels as natural on a board as he does on his own two feet. For him, the ocean is his home.

Date of birth

1 October 1997

Place of birth

Huntington Beach, California, USA

Age

26

Nationality

Japan

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.