Nachimi Itakura

Nick Name

: N/A

Born

:17 Jun,1975

Age

:44 years, 2 months

Location

:Osaka, Gifu, Japan

About Nachimi Itakura

Nachimi Itakura is a Japanese female professional ten-pin bowler. She is a member of the Japan Professional Bowling Association, license no. 372.

Career Highlights:

In 1997, at the age of 22 years, she gave up her job when she was selected as a member of the Japan national team.
Between 1999 and 2000, Itakura competed in various professional and amateur tournaments. She competed in the NHK Cup Japan All-Star Championships. And, she became the first and only Japanese to win the AMF World Cup (2001).
Itakura became a professional in 2003, becoming the first bowler to enter the JPBA under a waiver, based on her success as an amateur, thereby bypassing the qualifying stages (usually, a bowler has to qualify via a series of difficult tests, which for many bowlers takes multiple years before they are successful.)
In 2011, Itakura-pro finished the JPBA season 24th in points (980), 19th in scoring average (206.21), and 24th in money with 784,000 yen.