 Nakarai in 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (2002-03-11) 11 March 2002 (age 22) Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Breaking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shigeyuki Nakarai (半井 重幸, Nakarai Shigeyuki, born 11 March 2002), also known mononymously as Shigekix, is a Japanese bboy. He participated at the 2022 World Games in the dancesport competition where he won the bronze medal in the B-Boys event. In 2023, he won the gold for the men's breakdancing event in the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, and a day later, was chosen to be Japan's flag bearer in the closing ceremony of the games. On July 1, 2024, the Japanese Olympic Committee designated him and the female fencer Misaki Emura as the flag bearers to the París 2024 Olympic Games.
References
- "SHIGEKIX パリ五輪ブレイキンで10日出場 北海道愛語る：北海道新聞デジタル". 北海道新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-08-10.
- ^ "2022 World Games: DanceSports Breaking Results Book" (PDF). World Games. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- "Ami Yuasa wins World Games gold as Ayumi Fukushima finishes third". The Japan Times. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- Berkeley, Geoff (10 July 2022). "Egyptian sumo team banned from World Games over "poor sportsmanship"". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
- NEWS, KYODO. "Asian Games: 19th Asian Games come to end in Hangzhou, China". Kyodo News+. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
- "B-BOY SHIGEKIX, FENCING'S EMURA MISAKI NAMED JAPANESE FLAG-BEARERS FOR PARIS 2024". Olympics.com. July 1, 2024. Retrieved July 13, 2024.
External links
- Shigeyuki Nakarai (B-Boy Shigekix) at the World DanceSport Federation
- Shigeyuki Nakarai at the World Games
- Shigekix (Shigeyuki Nakarai) at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Shigekix at Olympics.com
- Shigekix on Instagram
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| Preceded byRui Hachimura Yui Susaki |
Flagbearer for Japan París 2024 With: Misaki Emura |
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- 2002 births
- Living people
- Japanese breakdancers
- Japanese male dancers
- Olympic breakdancers for Japan
- Breakdancers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Breakdancers at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
- Medalists at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
- World Games bronze medalists for Japan
- World Games medalists in dancesport
- Medalists at the 2022 World Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
- Asian Games medalists in dancesport
- Dancers at the 2022 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
- People from Ōsakasayama, Osaka
- People from Osaka
- 21st-century Japanese sportsmen
- Dance biography stubs