Rim Nakamura

Rim Nakamura
Personal information
Born (2002-02-09) 9 February 2002 (age 22)
Kyoto, Japan
Team information
DisciplineFreestyle BMX
RoleRider
Medal record
Men's BMX
Representing  Japan
Urban World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Abu Dhabi Freestyle Park

Rim Nakamura (中村 輪夢, Nakamura Rimu, born 9 February 2002) is a Japanese freestyle BMX rider.[1][2]

Early life

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

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

All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste Internationale.

As of August 8th, 2024

Olympic Games

Event Freestyle Park
Japan 2020 Tokyo 5th
France 2024 Paris 5th

UCI Cycling World Championships

Event Freestyle Park
China 2017 Chengdu 7th
China 2018 Chengdu 17th
China 2019 Chengdu 5th
France 2021 Montpellier 7th
United Arab Emirates 2022 Abu Dhabi Gold
United Kingdom 2023 Glasgow 4th

UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup

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

  1. ^ a b "Rim Nakamura". redbull.com. Red Bull GmbH. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Japanese BMX freestyle hope Nakamura recovering from broken heel". insidethegames.biz. Inside the Games. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Olympic Games Paris 2024: BMX Freestyle gold for Argentina's Jose Torres Gil". Union Cycliste Internationale. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024.
  6. ^ "Pas de titre mondial pour l'Héraultais Anthony Jeanjean mais une médaille de bronze réjouissante". MidiLibre.fr (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2022.


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