{{short description|Japanese ice hockey player}} {{Infobox ice hockey player | image = | image_size = 230px | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1991|8|16}} | birth_place = Musashino, Japan | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 5 | weight_lb = 139 | position = Defence | shoots = Left | league = CWHL | team = Calgary Inferno | ntl_team = JPN | sex = f | career_start = 2009 }}

{{nihongo|'''Aina Takeuchi'''|竹内 愛奈|Takeuchi Aina|born August 16, 1991 in Musashino}} is a Japanese ice hockey defender.

==International career==

Takeuchi was selected for the Japan women's national ice hockey team in the 2014 Winter Olympics. She played in all five games, recording one assist.<ref name="2014stats">{{Cite web |url=https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/389/IHW400000_83_38_0_JPN.pdf |title=IIHF – Team Japan Stats – 2014 Olympics |access-date=2017-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210235212/https://reports.iihf.hockey/Hydra/389/IHW400000_83_38_0_JPN.pdf |archive-date=2018-02-10 |work=IIHF |url-status=live }}</ref>

Takeuchi also played for Japan in the qualifying event for the 2014 Winter Olympics.<ref name="2013OLyQstats">{{Cite web |url=https://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/329/IHW3290JPN_83_3_0.pdf |title=IIHF – Team Japan Stats – 2014 Olympic qualifying |access-date=2017-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211071615/https://reports.iihf.hockey/Hydra/329/IHW3290JPN_83_3_0.pdf |archive-date=2018-02-11 |work=IIHF |url-status=live }}</ref>

Takeuchi competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics.<ref name="2018 Winter Olympics">{{cite web |url=https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/ice-hockey/athlete-profile-n3014490-aina-takeuchi.htm |title=Aina Takeuchi|website=PyeongChang2018.com |publisher=PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games |accessdate=February 10, 2018 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421075212/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/ice-hockey/athlete-profile-n3014490-aina-takeuchi.htm |archivedate=2018-04-21}}</ref>

As of 2015, Takeuchi has also appeared for Japan at two IIHF Women's World Championships, with the first in 2012.<ref name="Eurohockeystats">[http://www.eurohockey.com/player/519272-aina-takeuchi.html Eurohockey Stats]</ref>

Takeuchi made one appearance for the Japan women's national under-18 ice hockey team at the IIHF World Women's U18 Championships, in 2009.<ref name="Eurohockeystats"/>

===CWHL=== Takeuchi was drafted by the Calgary Inferno in the 2015 CWHL Draft. Appearing with the Inferno in the 2016 Clarkson Cup finals, she joined teammate Kanae Aoki as the first women from Japan to win the Clarkson, as the Inferno prevailed in a convincing 8–3 final against Les Canadiennes de Montreal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cwhl_site.stats.pointstreak.com/boxscore.html?gameid=2854811|title=2016 Clarkson Cup|publisher=cwhl|date=2016-03-13|accessdate=2016-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319014558/http://cwhl_site.stats.pointstreak.com/boxscore.html?gameid=2854811|archive-date=2016-03-19|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Career statistics== ===International career=== Through 2014–15 season

{| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="35%" |- align="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Year ! Team ! Event ! GP ! G ! A ! Pts ! PIM |- align="center" | 2009 | Japan U18 | U18 DI | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2012 | Japan | WW DIA | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |- align="center" | 2013 | Japan | OlyQ | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2013 | Japan | WW DIA | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |- align="center" | 2014 | Japan | Oly | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2015 | Japan | WW Qual. | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Ice hockey stats}} * {{Olympics.com|aina-takeuchi}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{InterSportStats}} * {{Team Japan|olympic/pyeongchang/sports/icehockey/team/takeuchiaina}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Takeuchi, Aina}} Category:1991 births Category:Living people Category:Japanese women's ice hockey defencemen Category:Calgary Inferno players Category:Clarkson Cup champions Category:Olympic ice hockey players for Japan Category:Ice hockey players at the 2014 Winter Olympics Category:Ice hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics Category:Asian Games medalists in ice hockey Category:Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Category:Ice hockey players at the 2017 Asian Winter Games Category:Medalists at the 2017 Asian Winter Games Category:Ice hockey people from Tokyo Category:People from Musashino, Tokyo Category:21st-century Japanese sportswomen

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