Akihiko Nakamura

Japanese decathlete (born 1990)

Akihiko Nakamura

Nakamura in 2017

Personal information
Born|  (1990-10-23) 23 October 1990 (age 34)
Nagoya, Japan[1]
Education| Physical education
Alma mater| Chukyo University
Height| 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Weight| 73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Country|  Japan
Sport| Men's athletics
Event| Decathlon
Coached by| Katsuhiko Matsuda[2]
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)| 100 m – 10.66 (2014)
400 m – 47.17 (2012)
1500 m – 4:14.09 (2012)
110 mH – 13.90 (2012)
400 mH – 49.38 (2012)
HJ – 2.10 m (2007)
PV – 4.90 m (2014)
LJ – 7.56 m (2017)
SP – 12.44 m (2014)
DT – 37.39 m (2018)
JT – 54.77 m (2010)
Dec – 8035 (2014)[3]

Medal record

Asian Games
| 2014 Incheon | Decathlon
| 2018 Jakarta–Palembang | Decathlon
Asian Championships
| 2015 Wuhan | Decathlon
| 2011 Kobe | Decathlon
| 2013 Pune | Decathlon
| 2019 Doha | Decathlon
Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
| 2016 Doha | Heptathlon
| 2014 Hangzhou | Heptathlon

Akihiko Nakamura (中村 明彦, Nakamura Akihiko, born 23 October 1990) is a Japanese decathlete. He competed in the 400 m hurdles at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but was disqualified in the heats. At the 2016 Rio Games he placed 22nd in the decathlon. Nakamura won several medals on continental level in heptathlon and decathlon.

## International competitions

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Representing  Japan Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes

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2007  | World Youth Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 18th (q)  | High jump  | 2.04 m
2011  | Asian Championships | Kobe, Japan | 2nd  | Decathlon  | 7478 pts
2012  | Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | –  | 400 m hurdles  | DQ
2013  | Asian Championships | Pune, India | 2nd  | Decathlon  | 7620 pts
2014  | Asian Indoor Championships | Hangzhou, China | 2nd  | Heptathlon  | 5693 pts
Asian Games | Incheon, South Korea | 3rd  | Decathlon  | 7828 pts
2015  | Asian Championships | Wuhan, China | 1st  | Decathlon  | 7773 pts
World Championships | Beijing, China | 16th  | Decathlon  | 7745 pts
2016  | Asian Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar | 1st  | Heptathlon  | 5831 pts
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 22nd  | Decathlon  | 7612 pts
2017  | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 19th  | Decathlon  | 7646 pts
2018  | Asian Games | Jakarta, Indonesia | 3rd  | Decathlon  | 7738 pts
2019  | Asian Championships | Doha, Qatar | 3rd  | Decathlon  | 7837 pts

## References

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1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Akihiko Nakamura". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
2. ^ a b "Akihiko Nakamura". AsianGames2018.id. Archived from the original on 5 September 2018.
3. ^ Akihiko Nakamura at World Athletics

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* Akihiko Nakamura – Rio 2016 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)
* Akihiko Nakamura – London 2012 at the Japanese Olympic Committee (in Japanese) (in English)

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Asian Athletics Champions in men's decathlon

* 1973: Vijay Singh Chauhan (IND)
* 1975: Suresh Babu (IND)
* 1979: Atsushi Kasai (JPN)
* 1981: Sabir Ali (IND)
* 1983: Lee Fu-an (TPE)
* 1985: Ku Chin-shui (TPE)
* 1987: Gong Guohua (CHN)
* 1989: Lee Fu-an (TPE)
* 1991: Gong Guohua (CHN)
* 1993: Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB)
* 1995: Hitoshi Maruono (JPN)
* 1998: Toru Yasui (JPN)
* 2000: Hitoshi Maruono (JPN)
* 2002: Ahmad Hassan Moussa (QAT)
* 2003: Vitaliy Smirnov (UZB)
* 2005: Pavel Andreev (UZB)
* 2007: Ahmad Hassan Moussa (QAT)
* 2009: Hiromasa Tanaka (JPN)
* 2011: Hadi Sepehrzad (IRI)
* 2013: Dmitriy Karpov (KAZ)
* 2015: Akihiko Nakamura (JPN)
* 2017: Sutthisak Singkhon (THA)
* 2019: Keisuke Ushiro (JPN)
* 2023: Yuma Maruyama (JPN)

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Asian Indoor Champions in men's heptathlon

* 2004–06: Pavel Dubitskiy (KAZ)
* 2008: P. J. Vinod (IND)
* 2010: Hadi Sepehrzad (IRI)
* 2012–14: Dmitriy Karpov (KAZ)
* 2016: Akihiko Nakamura (JPN)
* 2018: Majed Radhi Al-Sayed (KUW)
* 2023–24: Yuma Maruyama (JPN)

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Japan Championships in Athletics men's decathlon champions

* 1916: Gensabulo Noguchi
* 1917–18: Hirosaburo Takeuchi
* 1919: Not held
* 1920: Yoshio Mihashi
* 1921: Seigo Bando
* 1922: Hiroshi Masuda
* 1923: Takeo Kobayashi
* 1924: Not held
* 1925: Mikio Oda
* 1926: Moriichi Koyama
* 1927: Mikio Oda
* 1928–32: Tatsuo Toki
* 1933: Fusao Kaneki
* 1934: Keiji Ogura
* 1935–37: Yukio Waga
* 1938: Suemitsu Fujiguchi
* 1939–40: Fujio Sato
* 1941: Not held
* 1942: Hikari Kosugi
* 1943–45: Not held
* 1946–48: Yukio Waga
* 1949: Susumu Irino
* 1950: Fumio Hirai
* 1951–53: Fumio Nishiuchi
* 1954: Collins
* 1955: Retsu Sasai
* 1956: Sasaki main tax
* 1957: Miyao Masuzou
* 1958–59: Kiyoshi Kazuki
* 1960: Sohei Toyama
* 1961: Shosuke Suzuki
* 1962–63: Kiyoshi Kazuki
* 1964: Shosuke Suzuki
* 1965: Yasuo Nogami
* 1966: Koji Kasai
* 1967: Santai Ochiai
* 1968: Wu Amin
* 1969: Akishi Nakamura
* 1970–71: Junichi Onizuka
* 1972: Masanori Ikuta
* 1973–74: Junichi Onizuka
* 1975: Atsushi Kasai
* 1976: Junichi Onizuka
* 1977–78: Hisashi Iwai
* 1979–80: Takakazu Kobayashi
* 1981–82: Mitsugi Ogata
* 1983–87: Ken Kojo
* 1988–89: Katsuhiko Matsuda
* 1990–96: Munehiro Kaneko
* 1997: Sō Takei
* 1998: Hitoshi Maruono
* 1999: Yuichi Sugama
* 2000: Hitoshi Maruono
* 2001: Takuro Hirata
* 2002: Masatoshi Ishizawa
* 2003: Takuro Hirata
* 2004–08: Hiromasa Tanaka
* 2009: Daisuke Ikeda
* 2010–15: Keisuke Ushiro
* 2016–17: Akihiko Nakamura
* 2018–19: Keisuke Ushiro
* 2020-21: Akihiko Nakamura
* 2022: Keisuke Okuda
* 2023: Yuma Maruyama

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