Key Figures · Racer

Karine Paturel

Inducted into the IJSBA hall of fame in 2006, ranked third in Pro-Am Women Runabout at the 1999 World Finals, and listed by the UIM as 2006 world champion in women's runabout.

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

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Titles on the record (1)

Each read off a results document the archive holds: a result sheet, or, for a season's title, the body's own champions grid or season table, with the name as that document prints it.

Results

1999 · Likely

The overall results of the 1999 Skat-Trak World Finals rank KARINE PATUREL third in Pro-Am Women Runabout. A magazine profile of her 1999 season reports her third overall in the women's final at that event, which is how the archive ties the sheet's row to the racer on this page; the hall roster gives the name only, so the tie is the archive's inference.

Sources: 1999 World Finals results; PWI Paturel profile

1995, 1998 and 1999 · Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's profile, written after the 1999 season, says she raced in the United States from 1995 and moved into Pro Runabout 785, which it calls the men's class, in 1998. In 1999, it says, she won the first round, in Florida, and four of the eight rounds of the National Series, the last at Chicago, on a Sea-Doo; she finished the series behind Chris Fischetti and Dustin Farthing and again won the women's runabout division. These are the magazine's words; the archive holds no results of that series (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-05).

Sources: PWI Paturel profile

1996 · Likely

The magazine's report from the 1996 IJSBA Skat Trak World Finals at Lake Havasu says she won one of the two Pro-Am Women Runabout qualifying heats, on a Rocketship Racing Sea-Doo, and calls her the defending World Champion. It was written before the class's final motos and gives no final result. Reading it as the same racer rests on the name, the class and the make, which is the archive's inference.

Sources: PWI 1996 World Finals Grudge match

1999 and 2000 · Likely

A news item on the magazine's site, captured in June 2001, says that after riding for Polaris in 2000 she would ride for Yamaha in 2001, for the newly formed Dixie Stampede race team, in Pro Women Runabout and Pro Runabout 1200 on a Yamaha WaveRunner GP1200R, again with the tuner she had worked with in 1999. It reports plans for the season, not results.

Sources: PWI Paturel to Yamaha 2001

Likely

The magazine's item on the closing of Team Butch, also called Butch's Jet Ski Shop, captured in April 2001, names her among the shop's riders over its 22 years without giving her years or classes. The tie to this racer is the name, in an item about the shop's IJSBA racers, and is the archive's inference.

Sources: PWI Team Butch news 2001

2006 · Likely

The UIM's champions grid lists PATUREL Karine, for France, as its 2006 world champion in AQUABIKE CLASS PRO - CIRCUIT - WOMEN RUNABOUT SUPERSTOCK F1, and gives nothing more than the name, country and class. The archive ties that row to this racer by the name, the country (the 1999 profile calls her a Frenchwoman) and the women's runabout class, which is an inference.

Sources: UIM champions grid World; PWI Paturel profile

Recognition

Confirmed

The association's hall of fame lists her among its 2006 inductees. The roster gives names only.

Sources: IJSBA hall of fame page

Names as printed

PATUREL Karine (UIM champions grid World)

Elsewhere in the archive

• History chapter: The IJSBA and the World Finals
• History chapter: The aftermarket: shops, dealers and the teams they ran
• Event: IJSBA World Finals
• Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
• Organisation: Union Internationale Motonautique
• Era: The makers and their machines
• Era: The rule book years

What the archive has not read (2)

• The association's champions page lists her as Pro-Am Women Runabout world champion for 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, on Sea-Doo. The archive holds no World Finals sheet for any of those years (checked 2026-10-05 against the sheets held for 1999, 2004, 2008, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and the 2013 entry list), so none is a title here.
• No UIM round result or report for the 2006 season is held, so the title rests on the UIM's grid alone, which prints no machine and no placings below first (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-05).

Documents cited on this page

• IJSBA hall of fame page (ijsba.com): The Jacobsen-Stjernstrom IJSBA Hall of Fame (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association; sanctioning body, high. The association's own roster, read on 22 September 2026, giving the hall's name, its creation and dedication in 2006, and inductees by year to 2014, names only. It publishes no selection criteria and no citation for anyone.
• UIM champions grid World (uim.sport): UIM Champions grid, Aquabike World, every non-junior class, 2001 to 2026 (uim.sport, read 5 October 2026), Union Internationale Motonautique; sanctioning body, high. The world governing body's own list of its Aquabike world champions, read through the page's own discipline and class filters and held as one text, class by class, with year, class, country and name exactly as the grid prints them. The page has one address whatever the filter, so the part after # names the filter and is not part of the address. The five junior classes were not read. The grid starts in 2001, prints no 2007 or 2008 row in several classes, prints some names with a typing slip (AL ALBDULRAZZAQ for 2015), prints two riders for some years in parallel slalom without saying why, and its country column is often the licensing federation rather than the rider's own country (Lee Stone as BRAZIL, European riders as UAE). No placings below first and no machines.
• 1999 World Finals results (web.archive.org): 1999 Skat-Trak World Finals, overall results by class (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 1999; sanctioning body, high. Overall results by class for the World Finals of 10 to 17 October 1999, extracted from the association's PDF. The extract lets the hometown and maker columns drift against the names in places, so only a name and the position printed on the same line are read as one row.
• PWI Paturel profile (web.archive.org): Profile Karine Paturel, A Tale of Two Seasons, by Chris Jonnum (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online, captured February 2001), Personal Watercraft Illustrated; editorial, medium. A magazine profile on her 1999 season in Pro Runabout 785 and the women's runabout class, written after that season; the capture is of February 2001 and the article prints no date. Period trade press, so medium. It also touches on pay, money and an injury, which no Key Figures page repeats.
• PWI 1996 World Finals Grudge match (web.archive.org): Grudge match, by Joel Johnson, PWI Racing News coverage of the 1996 IJSBA Skat Trak World Finals (watercraft.com, captured December 1996), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 1996-10; editorial, medium. The magazine's day report on the Pro-Am Women Runabout qualifying heats at the 1996 World Finals, written before the class's final motos. Period trade press, so medium; it reports qualifying, not the final.
• PWI Paturel to Yamaha 2001 (web.archive.org): Paturel's With Yamaha Now (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online news, captured June 2001), Personal Watercraft Illustrated, 2001; editorial, medium. A short news item from the magazine's site on her team, machine and classes for the 2001 season. Period trade press by an independent publisher, so medium; the held text is the page reduced to text.
• PWI Team Butch news 2001 (web.archive.org): Team Butch Closes Its Doors (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online news, Wayback capture of 5 April 2001), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 2001; editorial, medium. A news item on the magazine's site reporting the closure of Team Butch, or Butch's Jet Ski Shop: first opened in 1979, its original owner, its sale in 1999 and its riders. Captured on 5 April 2001; the page prints no date of its own. Medium as period trade press.

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