Yukie Nakayama

Yukie Nakayama

Personal information
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)
Sport
Sport	Shooting
Event(s)	Trap, double trap
Club	Hitachi Kenki (JPN)[1]
Medal record Women's shooting Competitor for  Japan ISSF World Championships 2013 Lima Trap

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. "Yukie Nakayama". London 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
2. "Yukie Nakayama". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
3. "Women's Trap Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
4. "Women's Trap Final". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
5. "American Cogdell earns a bronze". The Associated Press. NBC Olympics. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
6. "Women's Trap – Qualification". London 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.

External links

• NBC Olympics Profile