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| Born | 9 February 2002 Kyoto, Japan | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Freestyle BMX | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Rim Nakamura (中村 輪夢, Nakamura Rimu, born 9 February 2002) is a Japanese freestyle BMX rider.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]Nakamura is the son of BMX rider Tatsuji Nakamura, who runs a bicycle shop in Kyoto, Japan.[3] Nakamura was named "Rim" by his father after the English word for the rim of a bicycle wheel, spelled using the Japanese characters for "wheel" and "dream."[3] The same character for "wheel" is also used as the character for "rings" as in the Olympic rings, implying a dream of competing in the Olympics. Nakamura began riding BMX bikes at the age of three and entered his first competition at age five.[3]
Career
[edit]In 2019, he won a 2nd Place: X Games Minneapolis – BMX Park.[1] The same year, he won the overall fise 2019 UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup.[2]
He qualified to represent Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics and he finished 5th despite placing second in the seeding round.[4] Three years later Nakamura again qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics. He scored 90.35 to go into provisional third position after the first final run. He improved to 90.89 in the second run and ultimately matched fifth place.[5]
He is the world champion of freestyle park of the 2022 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships.[6]
Competitive history
[edit]All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste Internationale.
As of August 8th, 2024
Olympic Games
[edit]| Event | Freestyle Park |
|---|---|
 2020 Tokyo
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5th |
 2024 Paris
|
5th |
UCI Cycling World Championships
[edit]| Event | Freestyle Park |
|---|---|
 2017 Chengdu
|
7th |
| 2018 Chengdu
|
17th |
| 2019 Chengdu
|
5th |
| 2021 Montpellier
|
7th |
 2022 Abu Dhabi
|
Gold |
 2023 Glasgow
|
4th |
UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup
[edit]| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Rank | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | MON 1 |
BRU — |
GOL 3 |
4 | 1820 | |
| 2023 | DIR 12 |
MON 6 |
BRU 2 |
BAZ 11 |
5 | 2390 |
| 2024 | ENO 4 |
MON — |
SHA |
9 | 770 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Rim Nakamura". redbull.com. Red Bull GmbH. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Japanese BMX freestyle hope Nakamura recovering from broken heel". insidethegames.biz. Inside the Games. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
- ^ a b c "【中村輪夢】BMX界の若きエースが学ラン姿で大爆走!? その笑撃の結末とは……". Redbull.com. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ "Rim Nakamura". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Olympic Games Paris 2024: BMX Freestyle gold for Argentina's Jose Torres Gil". Union Cycliste Internationale. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
- ^ "Pas de titre mondial pour l'Héraultais Anthony Jeanjean mais une médaille de bronze réjouissante". MidiLibre.fr (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2022.
External links
[edit]- Rim Nakamura at the X Games
- Rim Nakamura at Olympics.com
- Rim Nakamura at Olympedia
- Rim Nakamura on Instagram
