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. Murakami represented

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at the

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, where he finished thirty-first in the men's event, with a score of 4,744 points.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
Japanese male modern pentathletes 1976 births Living people Olympic modern pentathletes for Japan Modern pentathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Shizuoka (city) Asian Games bronze medalists in modern pentathlon Modern pentathletes at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games {{Japan-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub