is a Japanese

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player and member of the Japanese national ice hockey team, playing in the

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(SDHL) with

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Playing career

Sasano began her career playing with the Hachinohe Reds in the

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and Group B of the

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(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

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. She participated in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

2017 Winter Universiade Winter Universiade 2017, the XXVIII Winter Universiade, was a multi-sport winter event which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan from 29 January to 8 February 2017. On 29 November 2011, FISU announced that Winter Universiade 2017 would be hosted ...

and won a bronze medal in the women's ice hockey tournament at the

2019 Winter Universiade The 2019 Winter Universiade (russian: Зимняя Универсиада 2019), the XXIX Universiade, was a multi-sport event for student and youth athletes which took place from 2 to 12 March 2019 in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk. The 2019 W ...

. As a

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player with the Japanese national under-18 team, she participated in the 2014 IIHF Women's U18 World Championship.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sasano, Fumika 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