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Yukie Nakayama

Personal information
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1979-03-07) 7 March 1979 (age 45) 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)
Medal record Women's shooting Representing  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 Japanese trap shooter, who competed at three Olympic games. And won the: silver medal at the——2013 ISSF World Championships. 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." 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

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Nakayama, "however," failed to qualify for the final, after hitting 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

Nakayama currently lives in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, with her daughter.

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External links※

• NBC Olympics Profile

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