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Ice hockey player
| Fumika Sasano 笹野 文香 | |||||||||||
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| Born |
(1997-06-26) 26 June 1997 (age 27) Aomori Prefecture, Japan | ||||||||||
| Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb) | ||||||||||
| Position | Defense | ||||||||||
| Shoots | Left | ||||||||||
| SDHL team Former teams |
AIK Hockey | ||||||||||
| National team |
 Japan | ||||||||||
| Playing career | c. 2013–present | ||||||||||
Medal record
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Fumika Sasano (笹野 文香, Sasano Fumika, born 26 June 1997) is a Japanese ice hockey player and member of the Japanese national ice hockey team, currently playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with AIK Hockey.
Playing career
Sasano began her career playing with the Hachinohe Reds in the All-Japan Women's Ice Hockey Championship and Group B of the Women's Japan Ice Hockey League (WJIHL).
In 2016, she joined the Seibu Princess Rabbits, the reigning champions of both the WJIHL and All-Japan Women's Ice Hockey Championship. With the Seibu Princess Rabbits, Sasano won five Japanese Championship titles as WJIHL champion in 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, and 2019–20, and All-Japan tournament champion in 2018.
International play
Sasano represented Japan at the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship. She participated in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2017 Winter Universiade and won a bronze medal in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2019 Winter Universiade. As a junior player with the Japanese national under-18 team, she participated in the 2014 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship.
References
- "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: JPN - Japan". International Ice Hockey Federation. 31 August 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
- Living people
- 1997 births
- AIK Hockey Dam players
- Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade
- Expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden
- Göteborg HC players
- Japanese expatriate ice hockey people
- Japanese women's ice hockey defencemen
- Medalists at the 2019 Winter Universiade
- Seibu Princess Rabbits players
- Sportspeople from Aomori Prefecture
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Winter World University Games medalists in ice hockey
- 21st-century Japanese sportswomen