He won the gold medal in the -86 kg weight class at the 1993 World Judo Championships.

He finished in seventh place in the -95 kg weight class at the Olympic Games in 1996 and won the bronze medal in the -95 kg weight class at the World Championships in 1997.

Nakamura was good at Uchimata, Ōuchi gari, Harai goshi and especially Newaza.

He is well known that he destroyed Hirotaka Okada's elbow by Juji-gatame at the All-Japan selected championships in 1994.

[2] Among his pupil are world champion Hiroshi Izumi, Masato Uchishiba and so on.