is a Japanese sabre fencer. Nakayama is also a member of the fencing team for Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank Sporting Club in

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, and is coached and trained by two-time Olympian

Volodymyr Lukashenko Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Lukashenko ( uk, Володимир Володимирович Лукашенко; often Vladimir as in Russian, born 14 February 1980) is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. Luk ...

of Ukraine. Nakayama represented

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at the

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, where she competed in the women's individual sabre event. She defeated France's

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in the first preliminary round, before losing her next match to U.S. fencer and two-time Olympic champion

Mariel Zagunis Mariel Leigh Zagunis (born March 3, 1985) is an American sabre fencer. She is a two-time Olympic champion in the individual sabre ( 2004 and 2008) and the first American to win a gold medal in Olympic fencing. She was Team USA flag bearer in t ...

, with a final score of 9–15.

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1983 births Living people Japanese female sabre fencers Olympic fencers for Japan People from Kōnan, Aichi Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Aichi Prefecture Fencers at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Japan 20th-century Japanese women 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-fencing-bio-stub