Key Figures · Organiser

Algo Kuus

Listed by the UIM as a Safety Commissioner of its Aquabike Committee in 2023 and 2025, and named jury chairman in Estonian race guides of 2017 to 2019.

1. The early years, in print, 1981 to 1993
2. The makers and their machines, 1985 to 2005
3. Noise, safety and federal rules, 1996 to 2002
4. The rule book years, 2002 to 2018
5. Three rule books, 2021 to 2026 (this page's records)

1990200020102020

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Organising the sport

2023, 2025 and 2026 · Confirmed

The UIM's rosters of its commissions and committees with the status 14 March 2023 and 13 October 2025, and its yearbook published in June 2026, list Algo Kuus of Estonia as a Safety Commissioner of the Aquabike Committee, one of two the committee lists. The same documents describe the committee as established to bring together international sporting and commercial interests, administer the calendar and propose ecologically sound developments for Aquabike racing.

Sources: UIM composition March 2023; UIM composition October 2025; UIM yearbook 2025-26

2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026 · Confirmed

The UIM lists Algo Kuus of Estonia as a member of its International Technical Commission (COMINTECH) in its yearbooks published in June 2017 and May 2019, in its rosters with the commissions' status of 18 February 2021, 14 March 2023 and 13 October 2025, and in its yearbook published in June 2026. The documents give that commission's duties as the study of all technical rules proposed for international competition, tests on boats, equipment and materials, and homologation procedures; they do not tie the commission to aquabike.

Sources: UIM yearbook 2016/2017; UIM yearbook 2019; UIM composition April 2021; UIM composition March 2023; UIM composition October 2025; UIM yearbook 2025-26

2017 and 2019 · Confirmed

The UIM's yearbooks published in June 2017 and May 2019 print Algo Kuus as Secretary General of the Estonian Powerboating Union in their lists of national authorities. The yearbook published in June 2026 prints the union's president, vice president and UIM representative and no secretary general.

Sources: UIM yearbook 2016/2017; UIM yearbook 2019; UIM yearbook 2025-26

Likely

Three Estonian race guides name Algo Kuus as the jury chairman of an aquabike event: the Estonian guide for the third round of the 2017 Estonian championship and cup at Valkla on 19 and 20 August 2017 ("Zürii esimees"), the advance programme for the Nordic Championship 2018 at Pärnu on 10 to 12 August 2018, run with the second rounds of the Estonian championship and cup ("Race jury chairman"), and the advance programme for the JetSki Tallinn Open of 16 to 18 August 2019, organised by the Estonian Powerboating Union with three clubs ("Race jury chairman aquabike"). These three guides announce him as an official and do not show that he served. The guides print the name alone; reading their Algo Kuus as the UIM's officer of the same name rests on the name, the country and the Estonian Powerboating Union, and is the archive's inference.

Sources: Race guide Valkla August 2017; Race guide Nordic Championship 2018; Tallinn Open 2019 advance programme

Elsewhere in the archive

• Organisation: Union Internationale Motonautique
• Organisation: Eesti Veemoto Liit
• Era: Three rule books, 2021 to 2026

What the archive has not read (2)

• No held document says when his Aquabike Committee post began: the UIM's yearbooks of 2017 and 2019 and its roster of April 2021 list two other people as the committee's safety commissioners, and the roster of March 2023 is the first held document that lists him in the post (read 2026-10-09).
• No result sheet held for the Estonian events of 2017 to 2019 names the jury, so no held document shows him serving at a named event (searched the Estonian federation's mirrored texts for the name, 2026-10-09).

Documents cited on this page

• UIM composition October 2025 (web.archive.org): Composition of the UIM Council, Executive Committee, Commissions and Committees, status 13th October 2025 (UIM PDF, Wayback capture of 12 June 2026, excerpt), Union Internationale Motonautique, 2025-10-13; sanctioning body, high. The UIM's own roster of its bodies. The council, commissions and committees carry the status 13 October 2025; the executive committee carries 28 October 2024. High for whom the UIM lists in each post at those dates.
• UIM composition March 2023 (web.archive.org): Composition of the UIM Council, Executive Committee, Commissions and Committees, status 14th March 2023 (UIM PDF, Wayback capture of 2 July 2023, excerpt), Union Internationale Motonautique, 2023-03-14; sanctioning body, high. The council and executive committee carry the status 23 October 2022, the commissions and committees 14 March 2023, so a council post here dates to 2022 and a committee post to 2023. (as UIM composition October 2025 above)
• UIM yearbook 2025-26 (uim.sport): UIM Yearbook 2025-26, published June 2026 (PDF text read from www.uim.sport, excerpt of the officers' lists), Union Internationale Motonautique, 2026-06; sanctioning body, high. The governing body's yearbook, printed "UIM Yearbook 2025-26" and dated June 2026 in its publication line; the file is named Yearbook 2026. The excerpt keeps its organigram and council, technical and medical and safety commissions, Aquabike Committee, and the Estonian and Hungarian Jet Sports Federation entries with their officers. High for whom the UIM lists in each post. The Estonian entry prints no secretary general. The excerpt also holds entries added for other records (the Serbia entry in the list of national authorities).
• UIM yearbook 2016/2017 (uim.sport): UIM Yearbook 2016/2017, published June 2017 (PDF text read from www.uim.sport, excerpt of the officers' lists), Union Internationale Motonautique, 2017-06; sanctioning body, high. The governing body's yearbook, whose publication line reads June 2017. The excerpt keeps its organigram, council, technical and medical and safety commissions, Aquabike Committee, International Board of Consultants, and the Estonian entry in its list of national authorities with that union's officers. A Wayback capture of the same file (20210513204552) holds the same text. The excerpt also holds entries added for other records (the Peru entry in the list of national authorities). (as UIM yearbook 2025-26 above)
• UIM yearbook 2019 (uim.sport): UIM Yearbook 2019, published May 2019 (PDF text read from www.uim.sport, excerpt of the officers' lists), Union Internationale Motonautique, 2019-05; sanctioning body, high. The governing body's yearbook, whose publication line reads May 2019. The excerpt keeps its organigram, council, technical commission, Aquabike Committee (whose head it prints as President in the committee list and as Aquabike Chairman in the council list), medical and safety commission, International Board of Consultants, and the Estonian and Hungarian Jet Sports Federation entries in its list of national authorities with their officers. (as UIM yearbook 2025-26 above)
• UIM composition April 2021 (web.archive.org): Composition of the UIM Council, UIM Executive Committee, UIM Commissions and UIM Committees, status 8th April 2021 (UIM PDF, Wayback capture of 13 May 2021, excerpt), Union Internationale Motonautique, 2021-04-08; sanctioning body, high. The council, executive committee and committees carry the status 8 April 2021, the commissions 18 February 2021. It describes the UIM as the world governing body for all powerboating activities, with Aquabike among its main disciplines. (as UIM composition October 2025 above)
• Race guide Valkla August 2017 (web.archive.org): Piston Racing EMV ja EKV III etapp, Valkla, 19.-20. August 2017, võistlusjuhend (race guide, PDF on ejml.ee, Wayback capture, excerpt of the officials), Boatbox, the organiser the guide names, under the rules of Eesti Veemoto Liit (PDF on ejml.ee), 2017-08; sanctioning body, high. The organiser's supplementary regulations, in Estonian, for the third round of the 2017 Estonian championship and cup, the second round of the enduro championship and a parallel slalom at Valkla on 19 and 20 August 2017. The held text is the first page of the PDF held in mirror/ejml/, copied in the PDF's own text order, because the extract held beside the PDF shifts the posts below the jury chairman; in the PDF's order it names "Zürii esimees" (jury chairman) Algo Kuus, Tehniline kontroll Rainer Nikiforov and Rajameister Marten Männi. The Valkla August 2017 guide announces its officials and does not show that they served. The English guide of the same round prints the posts and names in separate columns.
• Race guide Nordic Championship 2018 (web.archive.org): Nordic Championship 2018, Piston Racing Estonian Championship and Cup round II, Pärnu, 10 to 12 August 2018, advance programme (PDF on ejml.ee, Wayback capture of 30 August 2018, excerpt of the officials), Stingray Extreme and Freetime Racing, the organisers the programme names (PDF on ejml.ee), 2018-08; sanctioning body, high. The organisers' advance programme, in English, for the 2018 Nordic Championship, run with the second rounds of the Estonian championship and cup at Pärnu, under UIM rules. The held text is the first page of the PDF held in mirror/ejml/, copied in the PDF's own text order, because the extract held beside the PDF pairs the officials with the wrong posts; in the PDF's order it prints "Race jury chairman: Algo Kuus". A programme announces its officials and does not show that they served.
• Tallinn Open 2019 advance programme (web.archive.org): JetSki Tallinn Open 2019 / Powerboat Tallinn Open 2019, Tallinn, 16.-18. August 2019, advance programme (PDF on ejml.ee, Wayback capture, excerpt of the officials), Estonian Powerboating Union with SK Propstars, Vihur Jetsport and Tallinna Veemotoklubi, the organisers the programme names (PDF on ejml.ee), 2019-08; sanctioning body, high. The organisers' advance programme, in English, for a joint aquabike and powerboat circuit event in Tallinn on 16 to 18 August 2019, organised by the Estonian Powerboating Union and three clubs. It prints the aquabike race director as TBA and "Race jury chairman aquabike: Algo Kuus", line 19. The held text is the first page of the PDF held in mirror/ejml/, copied in the PDF's own text order, without the organisers' e-mail address, telephone number and the venue's street address. (as Race guide Nordic Championship 2018 above)

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