| Rim Nakamura | |
| Birth Date: | 9 February 2002 |
| Birth Place: | Kyoto, Japan |
| Discipline: | Freestyle BMX |
| Role: | Rider |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
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. 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.[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]
All results are sourced from the Union Cycliste Internationale.
As of August 8th, 2024
| Event | Freestyle Park | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| align=left |  2020 Tokyo | 5th | |
| align=left |  2024 Paris | 5th |
| Event | Freestyle Park | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| align=left |  2017 Chengdu | 7th | |
| align=left | 2018 Chengdu | 17th | |
| align=left | 2019 Chengdu | 5th | |
| align=left | 2021 Montpellier | 7th | |
| align=left | 2022 Abu Dhabi | Gold | |
| align=left |  2023 Glasgow | 4th |
| 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 |