is a Japanese Olympic and Asian record-holding swimmer. She swam in the

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and

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, 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. She retired shortly after achieving this, in October 2008. At the

2008 Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nati ...

, 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.Reiko wins back national swimming title
published 2007-04-06; retrieved 2009-07-13.

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1982 births Japanese female backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers of Japan Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Japan Living people Sportspeople from Yokohama Nippon Sport Science University alumni World record setters in swimming Olympic bronze medalists in swimming World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Asian Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2002 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Universiade medalists in swimming Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Universiade gold medalists for Japan Universiade silver medalists for Japan Universiade bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-Olympic-medalist-stub

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