Akihiko Nakamura

Akihiko Nakamura
nation	Japan
birthday	23rd October 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Nagoya , Japan
size	180 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	8035 points
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 0 × 2 × Asian Championships 1 × 2 × 1 × Indoor Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Games bronze Incheon 2014 7828 points bronze Jakarta 2018 7738 points Asian Championships silver Kobe 2011 7478 points silver Pune 2013 7620 points gold Wuhan 2015 7773 points bronze Doha 2019 7837 points Indoor Asian Championships silver Hangzhou 2014 5693 points gold Doha 2016 5831 points
last change: May 2, 2019

Akihiko Nakamura ( Japanese 中 村 明彦 , Nakamura Akihiko ; born October 23, 1990 in Nagoya ) is a Japanese athlete who specializes in the decathlon , but also competes in other disciplines.

Athletic career

Akihiko Nakamura gained his first international experience at the 2007 Youth World Championships in Ostrava , where he was eliminated from the qualification with a 2.04 m high jump. In 2011 he won the silver medal behind the Iranian Hadi Sepehrzad at the Asian Championships in Kobe with 7,478 points . In 2012 he qualified in the 400 meter hurdles for the Olympic Games in London and was disqualified in the preliminary stages. He finished the 2013 Asian Championships in Pune with 7620 points in the silver medal behind Kazakhs Dmitri Karpov . The following year he also won the silver medal behind Karpow at the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou with 5693 points and won bronze at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, with 7828 points. In 2015 he won the Asian Championships in Wuhan with 7773 points and qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where he finished 16th with 7745 points . In 2016 he also won the heptathlon with 5831 points at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha . In the summer he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished 22nd with 7612 points .

He also took part in the World Championships in London in 2017 and this time came 19th with 7,646 points . When he next took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018 , he won the bronze medal again with 7738 points behind his compatriot Keisuke Ushiro and the Thai Sutthisak Singkhon . The following year he won at the Asian Championships in Doha with 7837 points, the bronze medal behind UShiro and the Kuwaiti Majed Radhi al-Sayed .

In 2017 Nakamura became Japanese champion in the decathlon and in 2018 in the 1,500 meter run.

Personal best

• Decathlon: 8035 points: June 1st, 2014 in Nagano
  • Heptathlon (hall): 5831 points: February 21, 2016 in Doha ( Japanese record )
• 1500 meters: 4: 14.09 min, June 3, 2012 in Nagano
• 400 m hurdles: 49.38 s, June 9, 2012 in Osaka
• High jump: 2.10 m, May 26, 2007 in Nagoya

Web links

Commons : Akihiko Nakamura  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Akihiko Nakamura in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Akihiko Nakamura in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )