Kohsuke Hirata ( ja, 平田洸介, born May 1, 1992, in

Tokoro, Hokkaido is a small town, once was an independent administrative division located in Tokoro District, Abashiri Subprefecture (now Okhotsk Subprefecture), Hokkaido, Japan. On March 5, 2006, the division, along with the towns of Rubeshibe and Tanno (all f ...

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) is a Japanese curler, a . He currently skips his own team out of Kitami. He participated in the

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

, where the Japanese men's team finished in eighth place.

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2018 Winter Olympics profile (web archive)

2015 Winter Universiade profile

2017 Winter Universiade profile
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