About Wako Kitano
Born 1999. Wako Kitano is a Japanese rugby union player.
Wako Kitano (born 8 September 1999) is a Japanese rugby union player. She competed for at the 2021 and 2025 Women's Rugby World Cups.
Early career Kitano started playing rugby in Junior high school. She attended Kobe Kohoku High School after discovering that they had a girl's rugby club. In September that year, she was selected in the Japanese squad to the delayed 2021 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
She scored one of eleven tries in Japan's 72–0 trouncing of in the 2023 Asia Rugby Championship. In 2024, she scored the first try for the Sakura's in their 17–17 draw against the in Kitakyushu.
On 28 July 2025, she was named in the Japanese side to the Women's Rugby World Cup in England. She scored a try in their final game of the tournament against .
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Japanese rugby union player
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Wako Kitano was born in 1999.
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