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Ayaka Toko (床•亜矢可, Toko Ayaka, born 22 August 1994) is a Japanese ice hockey player and member of the Japanese national team, currently signed with Linköping HC Dam of the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). She has previously served as captain of the Seibu Princess Rabbits of the Women's Japan Ice Hockey League (WJIHL) and All-Japan Women's Ice Hockey Championship.

Ayaka Toko 床亜矢可
Born	(1994-08-22) 22 August 1994 (age 28) Hokkaido, Japan
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb)
Position	Defense
Shoots	Right
SDHL team Former teams	Linköping HC Seibu Princess Rabbits Daishin
National team	Japan
Playing career	2011–present
Medal record Asian Winter Games 2017 Sapporo Ice hockey Universiade 2015 Granada Ice hockey

International play

Toko's first foray into international competition was as a member of the Japanese national under-18 ice hockey team at the 2010 IIHF Women's World U18 Championship, where she notched three assists in five games. At the 2011 IIHF Women's World U18 Championship, she served as an alternate captain and scored her first world championship goal.

Toko made her debut with the senior Japanese national ice hockey team in February 2013 at the final qualification for the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Later that same year, she participated in the 2013 IIHF Women's World Championship Division I, where she

participated at the 2015 IIHF Women's World Championship.[1] She competed at both the 2014 and the 2018 Winter Olympics.[2]

Personal life

Her younger sister, Haruka, is also an ice hockey player with the Japanese national ice hockey team and her father, Yasunori, represented Japan at the 1991 Men's Ice Hockey World Championship – Group B in Yugoslavia.

References

External links

• Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
• Ayaka Toko at the International Olympic Committee
• Ayaka Toko at Olympedia
• Ayaka Toko at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

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