Kinga Jókai Szilágyi
Hungarian ice hockey player (born 1997)
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Kinga Jókai Szilágyi (born 19 August 1997) is a Hungarian ice hockey player and member of the Hungarian national ice hockey team. She plays in the European Women's Hockey League (EWHL) with SKN Sabres St. Pölten.
| Kinga Jókai Szilágyi | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 19 August 1997 | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb) | ||
| Position | Left wing | ||
| Shoots | Left | ||
| NDHL team Former teams |
SKN Sabres St. Pölten
| ||
| National team |
 Hungary | ||
| Playing career | 2011–present | ||
Playing career
Jókai Szilágyi began her senior club career with the women's representative team of KMH Budapest in the Elite Women's Hockey League (EWHL; renamed from Elite to European in 2019). She has gone on to play with SC Weinfelden in the Swiss Leistungsklasse A (LKA), Luleå HF/MSSK in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL), the EHV Sabres (reformed as SKN Sabres St. Pölten in 2023) in the EWHL and Austrian National Championship league, MAC Budapest in the EWHL, and Skellefteå AIK in the Swedish Nationella Damhockeyligan (NDHL).[1]
International play
Jókai Szilágyi represented Hungary at four IIHF Women's U18 World Championships, appearing in the Division I tournaments in 2012 and 2015, and in the Top Division tournaments in 2013 and 2014.[2][3]
Her first tournament with the senior national team was the 2013 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II A, in which Hungary secured promotion to the Division I B. She appeared at the Division I B tournaments in 2014, 2015, and 2016, and at the Division I A tournaments in 2017, 2018, and 2019.[4][5]
At the 2021 IIHF Women's World Championship, she was a member of the first women's national team to represent Hungary at the Top Division level and was the team's second-highest point leader behind Fanni Gasparics, with one goal and three assists for four points in four games.[6]
Personal life
Her older sister, Zsófia Jókai Szilágyi, was a member of the Hungarian national ice hockey team from 2010 until 2021, when a back injury forced her to retire from elite play at age 28.[7]
Career statistics
International
| Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Hungary U18 | WC18 D1 | 2nd | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2013 | Hungary U18 | WC18 | 6th | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 2013 | Hungary | WC D2A | 1st | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2014 | Hungary U18 | WC18 | 8th | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2014 | Hungary | WC D1B | 3rd | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2015 | Hungary U18 | WC18 D1 | 5th | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 2015 | Hungary | WC D1B | 4th | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2016 | Hungary | WC D1B | 1st | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2016 | Hungary | OGQ | DNQ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2017 | Hungary | WC D1A | 5th | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2018 | Hungary | WC D1A | 3rd | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2019 | Hungary | WC D1A | 1st | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 | Hungary | WC | 9th | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2022 | Hungary | WC | 8th | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2023 | Hungary | WC | 9th | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Junior totals | 20 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 10 | ||||
| Senior totals | 39 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 2 | ||||