Reiko Nakamura

Reiko Nakamura

Personal information
Full name	中村 礼子
Nationality	Japan
Born	(1982-05-17) May 17, 1982 (age 42) Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
Height	166 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	backstroke
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  Japan Olympic Games 2004 Athens 200 m backstroke 2008 Beijing 200 m backstroke World Championships (LC) 2005 Montreal 200 m backstroke 2007 Melbourne 100 m backstroke 2007 Melbourne 200 m backstroke World Championships (SC) 2002 Moscow 200 m backstroke Pan Pacific Championships 2006 Victoria 200 m backstroke Universiade 2001 Beijing 200 m backstroke 2003 Daegu 200 m backstroke 2003 Daegu 100 m backstroke 2003 Daegu 4×100 m medley

Reiko Nakamura (中村 礼子, Nakamura Reiko, born May 17, 1982 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture)^[1] is a Japanese Olympic and Asian record-holding swimmer. She swam in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, winning the bronze medals in the 200m backstroke at both editions. In doing so, she became the first Japanese woman in 72 years to win medals at consecutive Olympic games.^[2] She retired shortly after achieving this, in October 2008.^[2]

At the 2008 Olympics, Nakamura set the Asian Records and Japanese Records in both the 100 and 200 backstrokes (59.36 and 2:07.13).

At the 2007 World Championships, she swam to a new Japanese Record in the 100 back (1:00.40) in finishing third. Eight days later, she lowered the mark to 1:00.29 in winning the 2007 Japan Championships.^[3]