Yuki Ito (ski jumper)
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Born | Kamikawa, Hokkaido, Japan[1] | 10 May 1994||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski club | Tsuchiya Home Ski Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal best | 200.5 m (658 ft) Vikersund, 19 March 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seasons | 2012–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starts | 218 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Podiums | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 21 March 2024. |
Yuki Ito (伊藤 有希, Itō Yūki, born 10 May 1994) is a Japanese ski jumper.
Ito has won nine individual World Cup events, three team events, and finished as the overall runner-up in the 2016–17 season. At the World Championships she has won five medals, including a mixed team gold.
Career
[edit]Ito's debut in the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup took place in February 2012 in Hinzenbach. At the 2013 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme, Ito won the gold medal with the Japanese team in the mixed event at normal hill. She won her first individual World Cup event on 14 January 2017 in Sapporo.[2]
She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics, finishing seventh in the women's normal hill individual competition.[3] She also competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in the same event.[3]
Ito also won the first-ever women's World Cup team competition in Hinterzarten on 16 December 2017. Her teammates included Kaori Iwabuchi, Yuka Seto and Sara Takanashi.[4]
Major tournament results
[edit]Olympics
[edit]Year | Place | NH | Mixed NH |
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2014 | 7 | N/A | |
2018 | 9 | N/A | |
2022 | 13 | 4 |
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
[edit]Year | Place | NH | LH | Team NH | Mixed NH |
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2009 | 17 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
2011 | 15 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
2013 | 20 | N/A | N/A | ||
2015 | N/A | N/A | |||
2017 | N/A | N/A | |||
2019 | 15 | N/A | 6 | 5 | |
2021 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 5 | |
2023 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 5 |
World Cup
[edit]Standings
[edit]Season | Position | Points |
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2011–12 | 20 | 130 |
2012–13 | 18 | 210 |
2013–14 | 3 | 759 |
2014–15 | 5 | 434 |
2015–16 | 8 | 505 |
2016–17 | 2 | 1,208 |
2017–18 | 4 | 661 |
2018–19 | 12 | 571 |
2019–20 | 12 | 380 |
2020–21 | 14 | 245 |
2021–22 | 8 | 449 |
2022–23 | 8 | 766 |
2023–24 | 4 | 1,018 |
Individual wins
[edit]No. | Season | Date | Location | Hill | Size |
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1 | 2016–17 | 14 January 2017 | Miyanomori HS100 | NH | |
2 | 20 January 2017 | Yamagata HS103 | NH | ||
3 | 21 January 2017 | Yamagata HS103 | NH | ||
4 | 15 February 2017 | Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre HS109 | NH | ||
5 | 12 March 2017 | Holmenkollbakken HS134 | LH | ||
6 | 2022–23 | 5 February 2023 | Mühlenkopfschanze HS147 | LH | |
7 | 24 March 2023 | Salpausselkä HS130 | LH | ||
8 | 2023–24 | 2 December 2023 | Lysgårdsbakken HS98 | NH | |
9 | 14 January 2024 | Okurayama HS134 | LH |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Yuki Ito – Player Profile – Ski jumping". Eurosport. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
- ^ "First World Cup victory for Yuki Ito". International Ski Federation. 14 January 2017. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ a b "ITO Yuki – Olympic Winter Games". International Ski Federation. Archived from the original on 9 May 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
- ^ "Japan rules in first ever Ladies' Team event". International Ski Federation. 16 December 2017. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
External links
[edit] Media related to Yuki Ito at Wikimedia Commons
- Yuki Ito at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Yuki Ito at Olympedia
- Yuki Ito at Olympics.com
- Yuki Ito at Olympic.org (archived)
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Skiers from Hokkaido
- Japanese female ski jumpers
- Olympic ski jumpers for Japan
- Ski jumpers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
- Ski jumpers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
- Ski jumpers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
- FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in ski jumping
- 21st-century Japanese sportswomen