Yoshino Enomoto
永野元 佳乃
Enomoto representing Japan at the 2017 IIHF World Championship D1A
Born (1998-09-28) 28 September 1998
Osaka, Japan
Height 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight 61 kg (134 lb; 9 st 8 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Right
WJIHL team Seibu Princess Rabbits
National team  Japan
Playing career 2017–present
Medal record
Asian Winter Games
Gold medal – first place2017 SapporoIce hockey
World University Games
Silver medal – second place2023 Lake PlacidIce hockey
Bronze medal – third place2019 KrasnoyarskIce hockey

Yoshino Enomoto (Japanese: 永野元佳乃, Hepburn: Enomoto Yoshino, born 28 September 1998) is a Japanese ice hockey player and member of the Japanese national team, currently playing with the Seibu Princess Rabbits in the Women's Japan Ice Hockey League (WJIHL) and the All-Japan Women's Ice Hockey Championship.

Playing career

As a junior player with the Japanese national under-18 team, she participated in the Top Division tournaments of the IIHF U18 Women's World Championship in 2014 and 2015, and in the Division I tournament in 2016.

Enomoto debuted with the senior national team during the 2016–17 season, participating in the 2017 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I Group A and in the qualification tournament for the 2018 Winter Olympics. She won a gold medal in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo.

A two-time FISU World University Games medalist, she won a bronze medal in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2019 Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk and a silver medal in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2023 Winter World University Games in Lake Placid, New York, during which she served as Japan's captain.[1][2]

She represented Japan at the IIHF Women's World Championship in 2019 and 2022.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Lake Placid 2023 Results – Ice Hockey, Women - Gold Medal Game > Players: JPN Japan". Lake Placid 2023. 21 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  2. ↑ Donatello, Sara (21 January 2023). "Team Japan Beats Team Czech Republic, 3–0, To Head To Gold Medal Game In Women's Hockey". Lake Placid 2023 (Press release). Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "女子世界選手権 日本代表メンバー決定". Japan Ice Hockey Federation (in Japanese). 22 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019.
  4. ↑ "2019 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Team Roster: JPN - Japan" (PDF). International Ice Hockey Federation. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  5. ↑ "2022 IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship – Player Statistics by Team: JPN - Japan". International Ice Hockey Federation. 4 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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