[caption id="attachment_4923" align="alignright" width="292"] Los Angeles, USA. 5th Aug, 2018. Kanoa Igarashi of Japan competes during the men's final in the US Open Surfing in Los Angeles, the United States on Aug. 5, 2018. Igarashi won the title of the event. Credit: Zhao Hanrong/Xinhua/Alamy Live News[/caption]

Kanoa Igarashi is an American professional surfer of Japanese descent from Huntington Beach, California who has competed worldwide since 2012 and will surf at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics as a representative of Japan. He has collected more Round One wins than any other surfer, finished 2nd place at the Pipeline event, and 20th place overall in 2016. During the 2019 World Surf League Championship Tour, he won the Corona Bali Protected event and placed 6th place.