Key Figures · Racer
Rob Flores
Listed first in Vintage Ski at the 2017 and 2018 World Finals, and raced Pro Ski and Pro Runabout on Kawasakis in the 1990s, seventh in Pro Runabout 1200 MOD at the 1996 Finals.
At a glance
- Role
- Racer
- On the record
- 8 years, from 1996 to 2018
- Disciplines
- Closed course
- Titles on the record
- 2 titles, each off a held results document
- In the archive
- 2 history chapters and 1 event
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- a year printed above a fact or in a title row on this page
- a year printed above no fact and in no title row
- a title year
Printed above the facts or in the title rows, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2017 and 2018. Printed above none, 1998, 2000 to 2003, 2005 to 2009 and 2012 to 2016. Title years 2017 and 2018. 1 fact has no year printed above it and marks no box.
Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact or in a title row on this page, one box a year.
How we know: the year printed above each fact, and the Year column of the titles table, below; an honour carries no activity year, so it marks no box.
Confirmed 1
Likely 8
Contested 0
2 title rows carry no grade word and are not counted here.
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.
Titles on the record (2)
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.
| Year | Event | Class | Placing | Name as printed | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Blowsion World Finals | Vintage Ski | 1st | Rob Flores | 2017 World Finals Saturday results |
| 2018 | Blowsion World Finals | Vintage Ski | 1st | Rob Flores | 2018 World Finals Vintage Ski table |
Results
2017 · Confirmed
The International Jet Sports Boating Association's posted results for Saturday 7 October 2017 at the World Finals list Rob Flores first in Vintage Ski, race number 88 on a Kawasaki, first in both motos.
Sources: 2017 World Finals Saturday results
2018 · Likely
Its complete results for the 2018 World Finals list Rob Flores first in Vintage Ski again, with number 1 on a Yamaha, third and first in the motos. That this is the 2017 winner is the archive's reading of the name and the class.
Sources: 2018 World Finals Vintage Ski table
1996 · Likely
Personal Watercraft Illustrated's profile of him in October 1996 calls him a Kawasaki factory rider racing Pro Runabout 1200 and Pro Ski back to back on that year's tour, and says he won Pro Runabout 1200 at its fifth round. It recounts his earlier seasons as well: Expert Ski national champion in 1992 and 1993, Pro Ski Rookie of the Year in 1994, second on the closed course at the 1995 World Finals. These are the magazine's accounts.
Sources: PWI October 1996 Rob Flores profile
1996 · Likely
The scoring service's results for the 1996 Skat-Trak World Finals list ROB FLORES seventh in Pro Runabout 1200 MOD, third and tenth in the motos, and sixteenth in Pro Ski 785 MOD, on a Kawasaki in both with Kawasaki Motors Corp. U.S.A. on his sponsor line. The full name and the factory Kawasaki are the archive's grounds for reading him as the profiled rider.
Sources: 1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 1200 MOD; 1996 World Finals Pro Ski 785 MOD
1997 · Likely
PWI's report of Jet Jam '97, held at Anaheim in August 1997, places Rob Flores third in Ski Closed Course on a Kawasaki, behind Jeff Jacobs and Chris Fischetti. Reading him as the 1996 racer rests on the name and the Kawasaki, an inference.
Sources: PWI Jet Jam '97 races and results
1999 · Likely
On the association's overall results for the 1999 Skat-Trak World Finals, ROB FLORES is fifteenth in Pro Ski 785 SS with 14 points. That this is the Kawasaki rider of 1996 and the Vintage Ski winner of 2017 is the archive's reading of the name and the class, an inference.
Sources: 1999 World Finals results
2004 · Likely
The association's 2004 Pro Ski overall sheet lists boat 88, FLORES, ROB, whose sponsor cell, printed across two lines, reads RACESKI.COM, Vista Palms Racing, Factory Pipe; its heat sheet has him third in the first heat of Pro Ski Superstock. Race number 88 is the archive's link to the 2017 winner, an inference.
Sources: 2004 World Finals Pro Ski overall; 2004 World Finals pro sheet 1
2010 and 2011 · Likely
On the association's Aquascore pages for the 2010 and 2011 World Finals, Rob Flores is seventh and then fourth on a Kawasaki in the section each page's class list makes GP Ski, with RACESKI.COM and HYDRO TURF on his sponsor line both years. The class is read from the list's order and the tie from the sponsor line, both inferences.
Sources: 2010 World Finals page 1009; 2011 World Finals page 1008
Recognition
The association's hall of fame roster lists Rob Flores among its 2014 inductees, and its post of 22 June 2014 naming the year's four describes him, in the hall's words, as a world and national champion and a factory racer. The archive reads both as this racer on the name.
Sources: IJSBA hall of fame page; IJSBA post hall inductees June 2014
Names as printed
ROB FLORES (1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 1200 MOD); FLORES, ROB (2004 World Finals Pro Ski overall)
Elsewhere in the archive
- History chapter: The IJSBA and the World Finals
- History chapter: Vintage classes and the 2025 rule vote
- Event: IJSBA World Finals
- Organisation: International Jet Sports Boating Association
- Era: The makers and their machines
- Era: The rule book years
What the archive has not read (1)
- No held document is a result sheet for the national titles and the 1996 tour round the October 1996 profile describes, nor for the 1993 and 1995 World Finals it mentions (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19), so none of them is a title here.
Documents cited on this page
- 2017 World Finals Saturday results (ijsba.com): 2017 Blowsion World Finals Results, Saturday 7 October (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2017-10-07; sanctioning body, high. The association's posted results for the Saturday of the 2017 World Finals, read on 22 September 2026.
- 2018 World Finals Vintage Ski table (web.archive.org): 2018 Blowsion World Finals Complete Results, 2019 World Finals Announced (IJSBA post of 9 October 2018, Wayback capture), the Vintage Ski table, International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2018-10-09; sanctioning body, high. A second excerpt of the association's complete results post for the 2018 World Finals: its Vintage Ski table, with number, make and two moto placings per rider.
- PWI October 1996 Rob Flores profile (web.archive.org): Profile: Pro Runabout 1200/Pro Ski racer Rob Flores, Double Trouble, by Keith Bush (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, October 1996, online archive page, Wayback capture of 2 December 1996), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1996-10; enthusiast media, medium. The magazine's profile of a Kawasaki team rider racing runabout and ski classes on the 1996 tour, with the writer's account of his earlier seasons. The issue month is read from the archive address. Medium. The held copy is an excerpt.
- 1996 World Finals Pro Runabout 1200 MOD (web.archive.org): Aquascore results, Closed Course, Pro Runabout 1200 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 event's own scored results for the class, as its scoring service posted them: each rider's final place, motos, qualifying rounds, make and sponsors, one cell to a line. High as the results document.
- 1996 World Finals Pro Ski 785 MOD (web.archive.org): Aquascore results, Closed Course, Pro Ski 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 1996 World Finals stand-up class page from the event's scorer, thirty riders with final place, motos, heats, make and sponsors. High.
- 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 Ski overall (web.archive.org): 2004 World Finals, Pro Ski overall points (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2004; sanctioning body, high. Pro Ski overall points by boat, name, hometown and sponsors, with three motos and the sum. One rider who rode all three motos is missing from this overall, so the sheet is read with the moto sheets.
- 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.
- 2010 World Finals page 1009 (web.archive.org): 2010 quakysense World Finals, results page 1009.HTM (Aquascore results, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2010; sanctioning body, high. A single day's Aquascore printout carried on the association's own site. The page lists its seven classes and then prints seven result sections in the same order, none captioned, so each section's class follows from its place in that list. Each entry lists the rider, home town, make, placing and sponsor lines. What is held here is an excerpt.
- 2011 World Finals page 1008 (web.archive.org): 2011 quakysense World Finals, results page 1008.htm (Aquascore results, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2011; sanctioning body, high. One day's results from the association's own site: four classes listed, four sections in that order with no caption, each entry a name, a hometown, a make, a placing and sponsor lines. The class of a section is read from its position in the list; the association's results release, reprinted by OzPWC, prints the same winner beside the class name.
- 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.
- IJSBA post hall inductees June 2014 (ijsba.com): IJSBA Summer Solstice Update (IJSBA news post dated 22 June 2014), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2014-06-22; sanctioning body, high. The association's summer update naming the four people chosen from the public's nominations for its 2014 hall of fame, each with a one-line description in the association's words, and setting the ceremony for 11 October at the London Bridge Resort. High for whom the association inducts; each description is the hall's account. The held copy is an excerpt.
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