Mai Nakagawa

May Nakagawa (Japanese中 川 真 依, Nakagawa of May; born April 7, 1987 in Komatsu ) is a Japanese water jumper. It starts in the 10 -meter platform diving as well as in the 3- m and 10 -m synchronized diving.

Their first international championship contested Nakagawa at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, where she was ninth with Misako Yamashita in the finals of the 10 -meter synchronized jumping. The following year, the duo won the silver medal in Doha Asian Games. Nakagawa launched at the World Championships in Melbourne for the first time in the individual competition of the tower and immediately reached the semi-finals, with Yamashita was she in synchronous finals from the tower eighth. Nakagawa qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. In individual jumping from the tower she reached the final and was eleventh. The following year she started with Sayaka Shibusawa first time in 3 -meter synchronized diving, the duo was at the World Championships in Rome eighth and was again able to win a year later at the Asian Games 2010 in Guangzhou, the bronze medal. Less successful was the World Cup for Nakagawa, 2011 in Shanghai. With Shibusawa they eliminated in the preliminaries in the individual from the tower she finished in 18th place semifinals

Nakagawa studied at the University of Kanazawa Gakuin Daigaku and starts for the corresponding sports team.