Hajime Miura is a Japanese 3A and 4A Player and a former 3A World Yo-Yo champion. He is currently sponsored by Yoyorecreation.
Hajime started his competition career as a 3A player. In 2014, he garnered a lot of attention by winning 3A at Japan Nationals and then Asia Pacific to gain an international title. He went on to win the World Title in the 3A division later that year defeating three time defending World Champion Hank Freeman to become one of the youngest world champions in history.
Soon Hajime's 4A ability would increase and he would also climb that competition ladder while splitting his time winning 3A title. Then in 2018, at the World Yo-Yo Contest, he entered 4A at the world level for the first time and took 1st place in both the 3A and 4A Divisions. Being the third person ever to be crowned World Champion twice in the same year (First being Shinji Saito: 2A and Combined Division) and the first person to win more than one of the main 5 style divisions (1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A) in the same year.
In 2019 Hajime would win the 3A world title keeping up his undefeated streak in that Division of the World Yo-Yo Contest but he got his first ever non-1st place in a controversial 7th place in 4A, of which he lost a tiebreaker for 6th place with Myles Gregory once the second decimal place was calculated (73.30 to 73.28). In that he ended up entering 4A with the intention of performing a full 3 minute Soloham routine, the first time it has been done since Atsushi Sakata's 5th place Soloham routine at Worlds 2004.
Many believe Hajime's Soloham routine to be the best 4A performance in history yet. However scores were unexpectedly low. Some speculating various parts such as lost un-scorable time in the extended period to catch and rethrow both yoyos many times over and the nature of Soloham having inherently loads of repeated elements which under the rules are not meant to be scored, bringing down his Tech score. Also having a -3 Major Deduction for failing to return a final yoyo at the end of the routine brought his score down further from what would have been 5th place to 7th place. Hajime has stated his intention was not to win the World Title with the Soloham routine but primarily to put on a show that would make the audience cheer.
Achievements[]
2024[]
- World Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 4th Place
2023[]
- World Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 1st Place
2019[]
- World Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 1st Place
- World Yo-Yo Contest - 4A Division - 7th Place
2018[]
- World Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 1st Place
- World Yo-Yo Contest - 4A Division - 1st Place
2017[]
- East Japan Yo-Yo Contest A-Block - 3A Division - 1st Place
- East Japan Yo-Yo Contest A-Block - 4A Division - 1st Place
- Asia Pacific Yo-Yo Championships - 3A Division - 1st Place
- Asia Pacific Yo-Yo Championships - 4A Division - 1st Place
- World Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 1st Place
2016[]
- West Japan Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 1st Place
- Japan National Yo-Yo Contest 3A Division - 2nd Place
- World Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 1st Place
- Japan Throwdown - Defeated Ben Conde
2015[]
- East Japan Yo-Yo Contest A-Block - 4A Division - 1st Place
- Japan National Yo-Yo Contest 3A Division - 4th Place
- Japan National Yo-Yo Contest 4A Division - 4th Place
- World Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 1st Place
2014[]
- East Japan Yo-Yo Contest A-Block - 3A Division - 3rd Place
- Japan National Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 1st Place
- Asia Pacific Yo-Yo Championships - 3A Division - 1st Place
- World Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 1st Place
2013[]
- East Japan Yo-Yo Contest B-Block - 3A Division - 2nd Place
- Japan National Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 8th Place
2012[]
- West Japan Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 1st Place
- Japan National Yo-Yo Contest - 3A Division - 8th Place