Yukie Nakayama
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| Nationality |
 Japan | ||||||||||||
| Born |
7 March 1979 Yūki, Ibaraki | ||||||||||||
| Residence | Utsunomiya, Tochigi[1] | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 49 kg (108 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Trap, double trap | ||||||||||||
| Club | Hitachi Kenki (JPN)[1] | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yukie Nakayama (中山 由起枝 Nakayama Yukie, born March 7, 1979 in Yūki, Ibaraki) is a female Japanese trap shooter, who competed at three Olympic games and won the silver medal at the 2013 ISSF World Championships.[2][1] Nakayama made her official Olympic debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she finished thirteenth in the women's double trap, with a score of 94 points, tying her position with Finland's Pia Julin.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nakayama competed in trap shooting, where she scored a total of 67 points in the qualifying round.[3] She added nineteen more shots to obtain a total of 86 points in the final, but missed out of the bronze medal triumph to United States' Corey Cogdell, after competing in a four-person shoot-out[4][5]
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Nakayama, however, failed to qualify for the final, after hitting a total of sixty-five targets in women's trap shooting, finishing in fifteenth place, behind her former opponent and Olympic silver medalist Daina Gudzinevičiūtė of Lithuania[6]
Nakayama currently lives in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, with her daughter Mei.
References
- 1 2 3 "Yukie Nakayama". London 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "Yukie Nakayama". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "Women's Trap Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "Women's Trap Final". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "American Cogdell earns a bronze". The Associated Press. NBC Olympics. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- ↑ "Women's Trap – Qualification". London 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.