Sun Rui (ice hockey player)

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China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  Sun Rui Ice hockey player
Date of birth May 14, 1982
place of birth Harbin , People's Republic of China
size 171 cm
Weight 61 kg
position striker
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 2005 Harbin
2005-2007 Team China
2006 Espoo Blues
2007-2008 Edmonton Chimos
2008-2015 Harbin

Sun Rui ( Chinese  孫 銳  /  孙 锐 , Pinyin Sūn Ruì ; born May 14, 1982 in Harbin ) is a former Chinese ice hockey player and coach who has participated in twelve World Championships and two Olympic Winter Games between 1998 and 2015 participated. She completed at least 81 games in major tournaments or competitions in which she collected over 100 scorer points , making her one of the most successful Chinese ice hockey players of all time.

Career

Sun Rui, who came to ice hockey at the age of five and a half and played for the team from her native Harbin , took part in a major tournament with the Chinese national team for the first time at the age of 16 at the 1999 World Cup. Further missions followed in 2000 and 2001 , followed by participation in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City . Between 2004 and 2009 , Sun Rui also represented her home country at the top division world championships. She also took part with the Chinese national team in the 2005/06 and 2006/07 seasons out of competition in the championship of the Finnish Naisten SM-sarja . From there, she and her teammate Jin Fengling were briefly committed to the Espoo Blues . In the 2007/08 season she ran - like her teammate Yu Baiwei - for the Edmonton Chimos in the North American Western Women's Hockey League in order to gain further experience in their own country before the World Cup .

From 2008, Sun Rui only appeared with the Chinese national team and her local team from Harbin. After relegating from the top division of the World Cup in 2009, she completed four World Championship tournaments in Division I until she retired in 2015. In addition, she represented her country at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and won the Asian Winter Games 2011 bronze medal. She was also the top scorer of the tournament with eleven points.

In the qualification for Division I of the U18 World Junior Championships in 2014 and 2015 , Sun Rui initially looked after the national selection as an assistant coach and later as head coach. Most recently she was assistant coach of the Kunlun Red Star from the Canadian Women's Hockey League in the 2017/18 season .

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Podnieks: China's women go all out for the 2008 World Championship. The Chinese women's national team works hard in Canada to succeed at its first World Championship as host nation. International Ice Hockey Federation , December 3, 2007, accessed January 29, 2018 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ This can be found in the official IIHF entry lists for various World Championship tournaments.
  2. ↑ There are no records of possible further participation in previous events of the Asian Winter Games.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Sun is the family name here, Rui is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Sun, Rui
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Harbin , People's Republic of China