Yuki Ito (ski jumper) explained

Yuki Ito
Birth Date:1994 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Kamikawa, Hokkaido, Japan[1]
Club:Tsuchiya Home Ski Team
Height:1.61 m
Personalbest:200.5m (657.8feet)
Vikersund, 19 March 2023
Seasons:2012–present
Individual Starts:218
Totalpodiums:28
Wins:9
Updated:21 March 2024

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

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

Olympics

YearPlaceMixed NH
scope=row align=center2014 Sochi7N/A
scope=row align=center2018 Pyeongchang9N/A
scope=row align=center2022 Beijing134

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

YearPlaceTeam NHMixed NH
scope=row align=center2009 Liberec17N/AN/AN/A
scope=row align=center2011 Oslo15N/AN/AN/A
scope=row align=center2013 Val di Fiemme20N/AN/A
scope=row align=center2015 FalunN/AN/A
scope=row align=center2017 LahtiN/AN/A
scope=row align=center2019 Seefeld15N/A65
scope=row align=center2021 Oberstdorf111345
scope=row align=center2023 Planica61155

World Cup

Standings

SeasonPositionPoints
scope=row align=center2011–1220 130
scope=row align=center2012–1318 210
scope=row align=center2013–14align=center style="background:#FFDAB9"3 759
scope=row align=center2014–155 434
scope=row align=center2015–168 505
scope=row align=center2016–17align=center style="background:#DCE5E5"2 1,208
scope=row align=center2017–184 661
scope=row align=center2018–1912 571
scope=row align=center2019–2012 380
scope=row align=center2020–2114 245
scope=row align=center2021–228 449
scope=row align=center2022–238 766
scope=row align=center2023–244 1,018

Individual wins

No.SeasonDateLocationHillSize
scope=row style="text-align:center;"1 align=center rowspan=514 January 2017   Miyanomori HS100
scope=row style="text-align:center;"220 January 2017   Yamagata HS103 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"321 January 2017   Zaō Yamagata HS103 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"415 February 2017   Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre HS109 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"512 March 2017   Holmenkollbakken HS134
scope=row style="text-align:center;"6align=center rowspan=25 February 2023   Mühlenkopfschanze HS147 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"724 March 2023   Salpausselkä HS130 LH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"8align=center rowspan=22 December 2023   Lysgårdsbakken HS98 NH
scope=row style="text-align:center;"914 January 2024   Sapporo Okurayama HS134 LH

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Yuki Ito – Player Profile – Ski jumping. Eurosport. 28 September 2023.
  2. Web site: First World Cup victory for Yuki Ito . International Ski Federation. 14 January 2017 . 28 March 2021 . 17 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190717205850/https://www.fis-ski.com/en/ski-jumping/ski-jumping-news-multimedia/news/archive/article=first-world-cup-victory-for-yuki-ito . live.
  3. Web site: ITO Yuki – Olympic Winter Games . International Ski Federation. 28 March 2021 . 9 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210509061740/https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=JP&seasoncode=&competitorid=134975&type=result&categorycode=OWG&sort=&place=&disciplinecode=&position=&limit=100 . live.
  4. Web site: Japan rules in first ever Ladies' Team event . International Ski Federation. 28 March 2021 . en . 16 December 2017 . 17 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190717192820/https://www.fis-ski.com/en/ski-jumping/ski-jumping-news-multimedia/videos/2017/12/japan-rules-in-first-ever-ladies-team-event-highlights-U6cp-bbUpOM . live.