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| Nationality |  Japan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 March 1979 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
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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.