Rim Nakamura
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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]
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]
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 has qualified to represent Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics and he finished 5th.[4]
He is the world champion of freestyle park of the 2022 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships.[5]
See also
[edit]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.
- ^ "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
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