is a Japanese snowboarder who competed at the

2006 Winter Olympics The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially the XX Olympic Winter Games ( it, XX Giochi olimpici invernali) and also known as Torino 2006, were a winter multi-sport event held from 10 to 26 February 2006 in Turin, Italy. This marked the second t ...

and had two World Cup victories. She also competed at the

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in Women's

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. Her motto is "Continuity is power."

Career

Nakashima's first appearances at FIS races started in January 2003, already in March of that year she started for the first time in the World Cup in

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and became sixteenth. She then finished second in the Japanese Championships. In the following two years she took part in the World Cup, but missed the top 10, while she often achieved good results in the low-class FIS races. In the World Cup, Nakashima achieved the first successes in their special discipline

in 2005, when it came several times under the top ten in March and finally triumphed for the first time in December . Having demonstrated her good performances during the 2005/2006 season, she was able to compete in the Japanese team at the

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, where she also became ninth. After the successful winter 2005/2006, where she became a Japanese champion on the halfpipe and fourth in the Halfpipe World Cup , Nakashima started the 2006/07 season once again and achieved several good placings in the World Cup. At the 2007 Winter Asian Games in

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, she won the gold medal in the halfpipe. At the end of the season, she was the sixth place in the halfpipe and the 27th place in the overall World Cup. In the 2007/08 season , they only played three times in the World Cup, but again reached top 10 finishes. Nakashima won the first World Cup of the 2008/09 season . In the further course of the season, she came second in

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and in Stoneham , reaching the 16th place in the overall World Cup and the second place in the Halfpipe World Cup. At the 2009 Snowboard World Championships in

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, she finished fifth. The following year, she became a Japanese champion in the halfpipe. Her last international competition, she completed at the

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. There she came in 13th place.

Achievements

Olympic Games

World Championship

World Cup

Places in general classification

* 2002/03 season - - * 2003/04 season- - * 2004/05 season - - * 2005/06 season - 15. * 2006/07 season - 27. * 2007/08 season - 58. * 2008/09 season - 16. * 2009/10 season - 86.

Places on the podium

# Whistler - December 10, 2005 (Halfpipe) - 1st place #

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- January 9, 2006 (Halfpipe) - 3rd place # Furano - March 18, 2006 (Halfpipe) - 3rd place # Furano - February 18, 2007 (Halfpipe) - 3rd place # Cardrona - September 7, 2008 (Halfpipe) - 1st place #

- October 31, 2008 (Halfpipe) - 2nd place # Stoneham - February 20, 2009 (Halfpipe) - 2nd place

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nakashima, Shiho Snowboarders at the 2006 Winter Olympics Snowboarders at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic snowboarders for Japan Japanese female snowboarders 1978 births Living people Asian Games medalists in snowboarding Snowboarders at the 2007 Asian Winter Games Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2007 Asian Winter Games