Rui Ukita

Rui Ukita
浮田 留衣
Ukita in 2017
Born (1996-06-06) 6 June 1996
Hokkaido, Japan
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
WJIHL team Daishin IHC
National team  Japan
Playing career 2012–present
Medal record
Asian Winter Games
2017 Sapporo Ice hockey
2025 Harbin Ice hockey
Asia Championship
2025 China

Rui Ukita (浮田留衣, Ukita Rui; born 6 June 1996) is a Japanese ice hockey player and three-time Olympian with the Japanese national team. She has played her senior club career with Daishin Ice Hockey Club in the Women's Japan Ice Hockey League (WJIHL) and All-Japan Women's Ice Hockey Championship.

International play

As a junior ice hockey player with the Japanese national under-18 team, Ukita participated in three IIHF U18 Women's World Championships. She was the top scoring defender at the 2012 Division I tournament, amassing five points across five games. The following year, her four goals at the 2013 Division I tournament led all skaters and helped Japan earn promotion to the Top Division, for which she was recognized as Best Defenseman by the tournament directorate.[1]

Ukita competed at both the 2014 and the 2018 Winter Olympics.[2] Additionally, she participated at the IIHF World Women's Championship in 2015, 2016, 2017 (in Division IA), and 2019.[3]

References

  1. ^ "2013 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship Div I statistics". International Ice Hockey Federation. 8 January 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
  2. ^ "Rui Ukita". Pyeongchang 2018. Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  3. ^ 2015 IIHF World Championship roster Archived 3 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine


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