Yurika Nakamura
Yurika Nakamura ( Japanese 中 村 友 梨 香 , Nakamura Yurika ; born April 1, 1986 in Nishinomiya ) is a Japanese long-distance runner .
At the road running world championships in Debrecen in 2006 over 20 km she finished seventh in 1:05:36 h and won the bronze medal in the team classification with the Japanese team.
In 2008, on her debut over this distance, she won the Nagoya Marathon in 2:25:51 h and was then nominated by her association for the marathon of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . There she finished thirteenth in a time of 2:30:19 h.
At the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin , she finished seventh in the 10,000 meter run with a personal best of 31: 14.39 min .
The athlete, who grew up in Hyōgo prefecture , is 1.66 m tall, weighs 48 kg and starts for the team at the Tenmaya department store.
Web links
- Yurika Nakamura in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Yurika Nakamura in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Athlete portrait on the Japan Athletics Federation website (Japanese)
- Athlete portrait on the Tenmaya Company, Limited website (Japanese)
- Debutante Nakamura wins the Nagoya Marathon, Olympic champion Naoko Takahashi breaks , article on the German Road Races website, March 9, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nakamura, Yurika |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 中 村 友 梨 香 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nishinomiya |