Kanami Seki

Kanami Seki
関 夏菜美
Born (2000-06-23) 23 June 2000
Hokkaido, Japan
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)
Position Defense
Shoots Left
WJIHL team
Former teams		 Seibu Princess Rabbits
  • HV71
  • Daishin IHC
  • Sapporo Infinitys
National team  Japan
Playing career 2014–present
Medal record
Asian Winter Games
2025 Harbin Team
World University Games
2023 Lake Placid Team

Kanami Seki (Japanese: 関夏菜美, Hepburn: Seki Kanami; born 23 June 2000) is a Japanese ice hockey player and member of the Japanese national team. She plays with the Seibu Princess Rabbits in the Women's Japan Ice Hockey League (WJIHL) and All-Japan Women's Ice Hockey Championship.

Seki previously played in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with HV71 during the 2023–24 season.

International play

As a junior player with the Japanese national under-18 team, Seki participated in four IIHF U18 Women's World Championship tournaments – the Top Division tournaments in 2015 and 2017, the Division I (D1) tournament in 2016, and the Division I Group A (D1A) tournament in 2018.

Seki made her senior national team debut at the 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship and has gone on to skate in the IIHF Women's World Championships in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.[1][2]

Seki was part of the Japanese delegation of university students that participated in the 2023 Winter World University Games and contributed a goal and an assist to Japan's silver medal victory in the women's ice hockey tournament.[3]

She won a gold medal with Japan in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2025 Asian Winter Games.[4]

In December 2025, Seki was selected to represent Japan in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina.[5][6] She tallied one point across four games, the primary assist on a goal scored by Yumeka Wajima against Germany.[7]

References

  1. ^ "女子世界選手権　日本代表メンバー決定". jihf.or.jp. 22 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  2. ^ 2019 IIHF Women's World Championship roster
  3. ^ "Ice Hockey – Women – Medallists" (PDF). Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games. 21 January 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  4. ^ "関 夏菜美｜アイスホッケー｜ハルビン冬季アジア大会" [Seki Kanami | Ice Hockey | Harbin Asian Winter Games]. Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese). 7 February 2025. Retrieved 21 February 2026.
  5. ^ "ミラノ・コルティナ2026冬季オリンピック女子日本代表候補メンバー発表 | 新着情報" [Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics Japan Women's National Team Candidate Roster Announcement]. Japan Ice Hockey Federation (in Japanese). 25 December 2025. Archived from the original on 1 January 2026. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
  6. ^ "関 夏菜美｜アイスホッケー｜ミラノ・コルティナ2026冬季" [Seki Kanami | Ice Hockey | Milan Cortina 2026 Winter]. Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 February 2026.
  7. ^ "Athlete Profile: SEKI Kanami". Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics. Archived from the original on 22 February 2026. Retrieved 22 February 2026.


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