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MOGULS

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Feb 23, 2023
Moguls title contender Anri Kawamura to miss worlds due to injury
Japanese women's moguls title hopeful Anri Kawamura will miss the ongoing freestyle ski world championships in Georgia due to injury, the Ski Association of Japan said Thursday.
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Feb 5, 2022
Ikuma Horishima wins Japan's first medal in Beijing with bronze in men's freestyle moguls
Moguls skier Ikuma Horishima scores 81.48 points to finish behind gold medalist Walter Wallberg of Sweden and silver medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Canada.
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Feb 7, 2020
Ikuma Horishima wins World Cup moguls event
Ikuma Horishima won his second World Cup men's moguls event of the season Thursday.
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Dec 14, 2019
Ikuma Horishima triumphs in men's moguls at World Cup meet in China
Ikuma Horishima won the men's moguls Saturday at the freestyle skiing World Cup in China for his first victory of the season.
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Mar 2, 2019
Ikuma Horishima places first in World Cup moguls event in Kazakhstan
Ikuma Horishima won the men's moguls Saturday at the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in Shymbulak, Kazakhstan, for his first victory of the season.
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Nov 29, 2018
Junko Hoshino aims for medal at 2019 world championships
Moguls skier Junko Hoshino, who failed to make the national team for the Pyeongchang Olympics, is determined to get back into the spotlight and is eyeing a medal at a future world championships.
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Feb 19, 2018
Daichi Hara wins first medal for Japan in men's moguls
On the fourth day of the Pyeongchang Olympics, Daichi Hara took third place in the men's moguls, bringing the first medal for team Japan.
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Feb 13, 2018
Freestyle skier Daichi Hara wins Japan's first medal of Pyeongchang Olympics
After qualifying in top spot for the third and last final of the night, the 20-year-old Hara appeared as if he might take the honor of being Japan's first gold medalist of the games, but came up short as Canada's Mikael Kingsbury and Australian Matt Graham grabbed gold and silver, respectively.
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Mar 9, 2017
Horishima claims gold at freestyle ski worlds
Debutant Ikuma Horishima on Wednesday became the first Japanese man to capture moguls gold at the Freestyle World Ski Championships.
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Feb 18, 2017
Moguls maestro Kingsbury records 39th career triumph
Ikuma Horishima could only manage sixth place as Canadian star Mikael Kingsbury posted an all-time record 39th freestyle career win in the men's moguls at a World Cup event on Saturday.
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Feb 28, 2015
Hoshino places second in moguls
Junko Hoshino produced a career high when she placed second in a women's freestyle moguls World Cup competition at Tazawako ski resort on Saturday.
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Feb 10, 2014
Olympic breakthrough eludes Uemura again in bittersweet finale
When freestyle skier Aiko Uemura banged out the fastest time on her third and last run in the women's moguls final, the tears that welled up behind her goggles told a story of what she had hoped would be her crowning glory.
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Feb 9, 2014
Fourth-place Uemura narrowly misses medal again
Freestyle skier Aiko Uemura suffered more heartbreak on Saturday as she finished fourth for the second Olympics in a row in the women's moguls at the Sochi Games.
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Feb 5, 2014
Uemura vying for medal at fifth Olympics
Aiko Uemura took part in official practice on Wednesday a day ahead of moguls qualifying in what is her fifth Olympic Games.

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