is a Japanese

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. Ito has won five individual

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events, three team events, and finished as the overall runner-up in the 2016–17 season. At the

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she has won five medals, including a mixed team gold.

Career

Ito's debut in the

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took place in February 2012 in

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. At the

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, 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

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. She competed at the

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, finishing seventh in the women's normal hill individual competition. She also competed at the

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in the same event. Ito also won the first-ever women's World Cup team competition in

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on 16 December 2017. Her teammates included

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, Yuka Seto and

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Major tournament results

Olympics

FIS World Nordic Ski Championships

World Cup

Standings

Individual wins

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ito, Yuki 1994 births Living people Japanese female ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers of 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 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women