Mai Nakamura

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Mai Nakamura
Personal information
Full name Mai Nakamura
NationalityFlag of Japan.svg  Japan
Born (1979-07-16) July 16, 1979 (age 38)
Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
Club JSS Nagaoka Swimming School

Mai Nakamura(中村 真衣,Nakamura Mai, born July 16, 1979) is a former backstroke swimmer from Japan. [1] At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Nakamura won the silver medal in the 100m Backstroke and a bronze medal as part of the Women's Relay Team for the 4 x 100 metre Medley.

Backstroke

Backstroke is one of the four swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles swum on the back. This swimming style has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It also has a different start from the other three competition swimming styles. The swimming style is similar to an upside down front crawl or freestyle. Both backstroke and front crawl are long-axis strokes. In individual medley backstroke is the second style swum; in the medley relay it is the first style swum.

Japan Constitutional monarchy in East Asia

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2000 Summer Olympics Games of the XXVII Olympiad, held in Sydney in 2000

The 2000 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and commonly known as Sydney 2000 or the Millennium Olympic Games/Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event which was held between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was the second time that the Summer Olympics were held in Australia, and also the Southern Hemisphere, the first being in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1956.

At one point, she was a holder of the 50 m backstroke world record. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "Mai Nakamura Announces Retirement - Swimming World News". Swimming World News. 2007-04-27. Retrieved 2017-11-01.