is a Japanese freestyle BMX rider.
Early life
Nakamura is the son of BMX rider Tatsuji Nakamura, who runs a bicycle shop in Kyoto, Japan. 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." 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.
Career
In 2019, he won a 2nd Place: X Games Minneapolis – BMX Park. The same year, he won the overall fise 2019 UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup.
He qualified to represent Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics and he finished 5th despite placing second in the seeding round. 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.
He is the world champion of freestyle park of the 2022 UCI Urban Cycling World Championships.
Competitive history All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste Internationale.
As of August 8th, 2024
Olympic Games EventFreestyle Park 2020 Tokyo 5th 2024 Paris 5th UCI Cycling World Championships EventFreestyle Park 2017 Chengdu 7th 2018 Chengdu 17th 2019 Chengdu 5th 2021 Montpellier 7th 2022 Abu DhabiGold 2023 Glasgow 4th UCI BMX Freestyle Park World Cup Season 1 2 3 4 Rank Points2022MON1 BRU— GOL3 4 18202023DIR12 MON6 BRU2 BAZ11 5 23902024ENO4 MON— SHA 9 770
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