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
- ^ "2013 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship Div I statistics". International Ice Hockey Federation. 8 January 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
- ^ "Rui Ukita". Pyeongchang 2018. Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ 2015 IIHF World Championship roster Archived 3 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com
- Rui Ukita at Olympedia
- Rui Ukita at Olympics.com
- Rui Ukita – Sochi 2014 at Team Japan (in Japanese) (in English)
- Rui Ukita – PyeongChang 2018 at Team Japan (in Japanese) (in English)
- Rui Ukita – Beijing 2022 at Team Japan (in Japanese) (in English)
- Rui Ukita – Harbin 2025 at Team Japan (in Japanese) (in English)
- Rui Ukita at the Harbin 2025 Asian Winter Games
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