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Minoru Kanamori

Third in Pro Runabout 785 Modified at a 1995 national tour round, seventh in the class at the 1996 World Finals on a Kawasaki, and sixth in Pro Runabout 1200 SS at the 1999 Finals.

At a glance

Role
Racer
On the record
6 years, from 1995 to 2009
Disciplines
Closed course
Titles on the record
none read off a held results document yet
In the archive
2 history chapters and 1 event
  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

The eras this page's records fall in are drawn solid; the others are hollow.

How we know: Each bar runs the years printed on that era's panel, and which eras a page falls in is the archive's grouping of its records, not the length of anyone's career.

Years 1995 to 2009, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact and hollow for a year printed above none. 1995 2000 2009
  • a year printed above a fact on this page
  • a year printed above no fact

Printed above the facts, 1995 to 1997, 1999, 2004 and 2009. Printed above none, 1998, 2000 to 2003 and 2005 to 2008. 2 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact on this page, one box a year.

How we know: the year printed above each fact below; an honour carries no activity year, so it marks no box.

  • Confirmed 1

  • Likely 8

  • Contested 0

The grade word on each fact on this page, counted. It grades how firmly the documents tie each fact to this person, not the person.

How we know: the word printed above each fact below, counted on this page only.

Results

1996 · Confirmed

The scoring service's results for Pro Runabout 785 MOD at the 1996 Skat-Trak World Finals at Lake Havasu City list MINORU KANAMORI seventh in the final on a Kawasaki, third and eighth in the two motos, with Kawasaki Motors Corp., USA on his sponsor line.

Sources: 1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 785 MOD

1995 · Likely

The Antioch News of 28 July 1995, reporting Round 6 of the Westcoast Performance Nationals of the Budweiser Jet Sports Tour at Illinois Beach State Park, places Minoru Kanamori of Japan third in Pro Runabout 785 Modified. That he is the rider of the 1996 sheet is read from the full name and the class, an inference.

Sources: Antioch News 28 July 1995

1996 · Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's profile of him in December 1996 puts him on Kawasaki's team and says he lost the 1996 Pro Runabout 785 national title to Chris Fischetti by seven points, after missing the final at the last round, the Jet Jam in Anaheim; the career list printed with it gives him second overall in that series. Reading the profile's racer as the rider of the 1996 sheet rests on the full name, the class and the Kawasaki team, an inference.

Sources: PWI December 1996 Kanamori profile

Likely

The same profile is headed with his name as 1994 and 1995 Pro Runabout 785 World Champion, the magazine's report from the 1996 Finals calls him the defending World Champion, and an Arai helmet advertisement in Cycle News of 3 January 1996 lists MINORU KANAMORI as IJSBA World Champion. These are a magazine's and an advertiser's words. Joining the report's and the advertisement's names to him rests on the name alone, an inference.

Sources: PWI December 1996 Kanamori profile; PWI 1996 World Finals heats report; Cycle News 3 January 1996 Arai ad

1997 · Likely

PWI's report of Jet Jam '97 at Anaheim, held 15 to 17 August 1997, lists Minoru Kanamori fifth in Runabout Closed Course and fifth in Ski Closed Course, on a Kawasaki each time. The tie to the 1996 sheet is the archive's reading of the name and the make.

Sources: PWI Jet Jam '97 races and results

1999 · Likely

On the International Jet Sports Boating Association's overall results for the 1999 Skat-Trak World Finals, MINORU KANAMORI is sixth in Pro Runabout 1200 SS with 36 points, on a Kawasaki. Joining him to the 1996 rider rests on the name and the make, an inference.

Sources: 1999 World Finals results

2004 · Likely

At the 2004 World Finals the association's Pro Runabout overall sheet lists boat 7, KANAMORI, MINORU, Kawasaki, with moto points of 36, 33 and 33 and a sum of 102, the seventh line of a sheet that prints no placing column; its heat sheet has him second in the second heat of Pro Runabout 1200 Superstock. He is read as the same rider by the name and the Kawasaki, an inference.

Sources: 2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall; 2004 World Finals pro sheet 1

2009 · Likely

The association's page for 10 October 2009 at the World Finals lists Minoru Kanamori third, on a Kawasaki, in its fifteenth uncaptioned section, which its own class list makes Pro-Am Ski. Both the class and the tie to the earlier racer are inferences, from the list's order and from the name and make.

Sources: 2009 World Finals 1018 Pro-Am Ski

Recognition

Likely

The association's hall of fame roster lists Minoru Kanamori among its 2006 inductees. The roster prints names only, so the archive reads the entry as this racer on the name.

Sources: IJSBA hall of fame page

Names as printed

MINORU KANAMORI (1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 785 MOD); KANAMORI, MINORU (2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall)

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (1)

  • The association's champions page lists Minoru Kanamori, Japan, Kawasaki, in its Pro Runabout 785 table for 1994 and 1995. No result sheet of the 1994 or 1995 World Finals is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19), so neither is a title here.

Documents cited on this page

  • 1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 785 MOD (web.archive.org): Aquascore results, Closed Course, Pro Runabout 785 MOD, 1996 Skat-Trak World Finals, Lake Havasu City, 10/11/96 (malls-ltd.com, Wayback capture of 10 November 1996), Aquascore, the results service of the 1996 Skat-Trak World Finals, 1996-10-11; sanctioning body, high. The scoring service's page for the 1996 World Finals class of 31 registered riders, giving for each the final place, the two motos, the heat or last-chance qualifier, make and sponsor lines. High.
  • Antioch News 28 July 1995 (archive.org): Antioch News (Illinois), 28 July 1995, Competition heats up in Lake Michigan, with the continued results (OCR excerpt), Antioch News, Lakeland Newspapers (Illinois), issue held by the Internet Archive, 1995-07-28; editorial, medium. A local newspaper's correspondent's report of Round 6 of the Westcoast Performance Nationals of the Budweiser Jet Sports Tour at Illinois Beach State Park, with a results list continued on a later page. Medium as an independent newspaper report from raw OCR; it is a regional report of one round, not the association's own sheet, and the continued list prints place, name and a hometown for each rider.
  • PWI December 1996 Kanamori profile (web.archive.org): PWI's Circuit, Profile: Good as Gold, by Jeff Hain (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, December 1996, online archive page, Wayback capture of 24 June 1997), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1996-12; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's profile of a Kawasaki Pro Runabout 785 racer, with a sidebar on the last round of that year's national series and a career list. The issue month is read from the archive address. Medium. The held copy is an excerpt.
  • PWI 1996 World Finals heats report (web.archive.org): PWI Racing News, 1996 IJSBA Skat Trak World Finals, Showdown, by Paul Carruthers (watercraft.com, Wayback capture of 2 December 1996), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1996-10; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's report, posted during the 1996 Finals, on the heat races of Pro Runabout 785 Modified the day before its final. Medium. The held copy is an excerpt.
  • Cycle News 3 January 1996 Arai ad (archive.org): Cycle News, 3 January 1996, Arai Helmets, USA advertisement Once Again In '95, Arai Has More Champions (OCR excerpt), Cycle News, advertisement by Arai Helmets USA, issue held by the Internet Archive, 1996-01-03; enthusiast media, medium. Heading lines, the Personal Watercraft entries and the page date of a helmet maker's year-end advertisement, taken from the issue's raw OCR, where a second column shares some lines. Medium as a period advertisement, which proves what the advertiser said and not that a result sheet agrees. The excerpt keeps no company address or telephone number.
  • PWI Jet Jam '97 races and results (web.archive.org): Racing: Jet Jam '97, Anaheim, California, The Joint Was Jumping, by Keith Bush (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, December 1997, online archive page, Wayback capture of 15 January 1998), the races and results, Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1997-12; enthusiast media, medium. A second excerpt of the magazine's report of Jet Jam '97: the oval, runabout, dual slalom and stand-up races and the top five of each class with the make. A magazine's report, not a result sheet; medium.
  • 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.
  • 2004 World Finals Pro Runabout overall (web.archive.org): 2004 World Finals, Pro Runabout overall points (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2004; sanctioning body, high. Pro Runabout overall points by boat, with three motos and the sum. The sheet prints no position column and its cells drift out of line partway down the list, so an overall position read from it is an inference.
  • 2004 World Finals pro sheet 1 (web.archive.org): 2004 World Finals, pro classes results, sheet pro01 (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2004; sanctioning body, high. The first of the 2004 pro results sheets, heats and motos by class, as extracted text. Event and year come from the file's address.
  • 2009 World Finals 1018 Pro-Am Ski (web.archive.org): 2009 quakysense World Finals, results page 1018, Pro-Am Ski section (ijsba.com, Wayback capture of 5 December 2013), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2009-10-10; sanctioning body, high. A second excerpt of the association's Aquascore results page for 10 October 2009: the fifteenth uncaptioned section, read as Pro-Am Ski by its place in the class list.
  • 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.
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