
The 2025/26 snowboard season is drawing to a close, and the record for the Yonex team is simply outstanding. With double crystal globes, World Cup wins and the first titles in the newly created “Snow League”, our riders have once again shown that Japanese carbon technology is the benchmark at the very top of the sport.
Particularly striking is the dominance in halfpipe and park & pipe, where Team Yonex regularly left the field behind.
Here are the highlights of an extraordinary season:
Yuto Totsuka: the king of the air takes the double
Yuto Totsuka has come through a season of superlatives. At the World Cup final in Silvaplana he crowned his campaign with a commanding win and secured two of the coveted crystal globes:
- Winner of the halfpipe overall World Cup (his fourth crystal globe in total).
- Winner of the park & pipe overall World Cup, making him the most versatile and consistent rider of the season.
- He also took the overall win in the first season of the high-calibre “The Snow League”.
Sena Tomita: historic win in the “Snow League”
There was reason to celebrate at the highest level on the women’s side as well. Sena Tomita wrote history by becoming the first women’s overall winner of the “Snow League”. With consistent World Cup podiums — including second places in Copper Mountain and Sapporo and a third in Aspen — she cemented her status as one of the world’s best halfpipe riders and finished 4th in the overall World Cup.
The “next generation” flies onto the podium
Alongside the established stars, our young talent showed that Yonex’s future is in safe hands:
- Rise Kudo: after her spectacular silver debut at the X Games she kept the run going and took, among other results, an excellent second place at the Snow League final in Laax.
- Sara Shimizu: she celebrated one of the biggest results of her career with the win at the Snow League event in Laax and showed she belongs at the very top of the sport.
- Kira Kimura: last season’s crystal-globe winner stayed dangerous and took a strong World Cup podium (2nd) in Big Air in Beijing, among other results.
A strong team across the board
Yonex’s success this season is a team result. Ruka Hirano showed his usual technical precision and finished the Snow League season in a strong third overall. Ruki Tomita, Hiroaki Kunitake, Haku Shimasaki and Alessandro Barbieri also delivered top World Cup results across the season and collected important points for the team.
Superior technology as the key
These results are no coincidence. The combination of our athletes’ exceptional talent and the technological edge of Yonex snowboards — above all the precise carbon construction — delivers maximum control and huge amplitude.
We congratulate the entire team on this incredible 2025/26 season. We are proud to walk with you on the way to the top of the sport.
The results at a glance:
- Yuto Totsuka: double crystal globe (HP & park/pipe), winner of “The Snow League”
- Sena Tomita: overall win in “The Snow League”, multiple World Cup podiums
- Rise Kudo: X Games silver, podium Snow League Laax
- Sara Shimizu: win Snow League Laax
- Kira Kimura: World Cup podium Beijing (Big Air)
- Ruka Hirano: top 3 overall in “The Snow League”

