Hidenari Kanayama (金山 英勢, born 26 September 1990 in Sapporo) is a Japanese luger. He competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics.[1] He became interested in sliding sports during elementary school after seeing skeleton racer Kazuhiro Koshi on television.[2]
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