Yukie Nakayama, a leading Japanese shooting girl who has participated in the Olympic Games five times, has decided to retire from the competition.
This was announced on the 24th by Nakayama's affiliation.
Nakayama, a 43-year-old from Ibaraki prefecture, was scouted by a company after winning second place in the softball of all high schools in Japan and turned to clay pigeon shooting, and participated in the Olympic Games for the first time in the 2000 Sydney Games.
After that, he participated in the Olympic Games five times in total up to the Tokyo Games, and was active as a leading figure in Japan, such as winning the 4th place at the 2008 Beijing Games.
At the Tokyo Games, she participated in a mixed trap with a shooting girl's trap and her husband Shigetaka Oyama, but neither of them made it to the finals.
As a "mama athlete" who engages in competition while raising her daughter, she has shared her experience with other female athletes.
She says that Nakayama will retire from the front line of her competition by the end of this month and she will be involved in the training of the following players in the future.
Nakayama said, "I am full of gratitude to everyone. In the future, I would like to give back everything I have to society while paying attention to various problems that women have by making use of my competition experience so far. I will. "