Funa Nakayama (中山楓奈, ''Nakayama Fūna''; born 17 June 2005) is a Japanese skateboarder from Toyama City. Nakayama won a bronze medal in the women's street competition at the

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held in Tokyo, Japan.

Skateboarding career

Nakayama competed in the 2018 Japan Skateboarding Championships at Murasaki Park Tokyo on May 13, 2018 in

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. Nakayama competed in the finals at the Street League Skateboarding Tour - London in 2019. She finished in 6th place. She entered the finals as the number one qualifier. She had similar results three weeks later in

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. She entered that contest off of a second place in the street qualifier. As of June 2019, she is ranked #8 in the world. She is participating in the

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2005 births Living people Female skateboarders Japanese skateboarders Japanese sportswomen Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Olympic medalists in skateboarding Olympic skateboarders of Japan Skateboarders at the 2020 Summer Olympics 21st-century Japanese women {{Skateboarding-bio-stub