Yukie Nakayama

Yukie Nakayama

Personal information
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1979-03-07) 7 March 1979 (age 46) Yūki, Ibaraki
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Weight	49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	Trap, double trap
Club	Hitachi Kenki (JPN) [1]
Medal record Women's shooting Representing   Japan World Championships 2013 Lima Trap Asian Championships 2012 Doha Trap team 2012 Doha Trap 2019 Doha Trap Asian Shotgun Championships 2014 Al-Ain Trap team 2014 Al-Ain Trap

Yukie Nakayama (中山 由起枝, Nakayama Yukie; born March 7, 1979 in Yūki, Ibaraki) is a 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.

References

1. "Yukie Nakayama". London 2012. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yukie Nakayama". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
3. "Women's Trap Qualification". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
4. "Women's Trap Final". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
5. "American Cogdell earns a bronze". The Associated Press. NBC Olympics. 10 August 2008. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
6. "Women's Trap – Qualification". London 2012. Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2012.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile Archived 2012-08-20 at the Wayback Machine