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Takahisa Fujinami

By 20/10/2021No Comments
Date of birth: 13/01/1980

Birthplace: Mie – Mie – Japan

Weight: 68 kg

Height: 171 cm

Hobbies: Music and Tennis

Nationality: Japanese

Years as Repsol rider: 18 (including 2021)

Honours

First competition:  Spain 1996

First World Championship podium: San Marino 1997

First World Championship victory: Germany 1997

World Championship titles: 1

Sporting career

1993 Runner-up of Japan class B
1994 3rd in the Trial Championship of Japan class A
1995 Champion of Japan
1996 7th in the World Championship
1997 4th in the World Championship
1998 5th World Championship
Champion of Japan
1999 Champion of Japan
Runner-up in the World Championship
2000 5th Trial Indoor Championship
Champion of Japan
Runner-up in the World Championship
2001 Champion of Japan
Runner-up in the World Championship
2002 Runner-up in the World Championship
2003 3rd Spanish Championship
5th Trial Outdoor Championship
Runner-up in the World Championship of Trial Natural
2004 Trial World Champion
Runner-up in the World Championship ofTrial Indoor
2005 5th Trial Outdoor Championship
Runner-up in the World Championship
2006 5th Trial Outdoor Championship
Runner-up in the World Championship
2007 3rd Trial Outdoor Championship
4th Trial Indoor Championship
2008 3rd Trial Outdoor Championship
4th Trial Indoor Championship
2009 3rd Trial Outdoor Championship
4th Trial Indoor Championship
2010 3rd Trial Outdoor Championship
6th Trial Indoor Championship
2011 3rd Trial Outdoor Championship
5th Trial Indoor Championship
2012 5th Trial Outdoor Championship
4th Trial Indoor Championship
2013 5th Trial Outdoor Championship
5th X-Trial Championship
2014 5th Trial Outdoor Championship
6th X-Trial Championship
2015 5th Trial Outdoor Championship
2016 3rd Trial Outdoor Championship
2017 5th Trial Outdoor Championship
2018 6th Trial Outdoor Championship
2019 3th Trial Outdoor Championship
2020 7th Trial Outdoor Championship

Biography

From Japan to Trial World Championship

The World Championship title in 2004 was the well-deserved reward to the tenacity and talent of Takahisa Fujinami, who after dominating Japan’s national championships took the leap to the World Championship to achieve international success.

The Repsol rider has participated in all specialities, so he has balanced on anything with two wheels. Before starting with motorbike trial and be Japan’s class B runner-up at 13, he was bicycle trial World Champion. Since he was very young and in any speciality, the Japanese rider showed extraordinary capabilities that allowed him to rise very quickly, with a fantastic track record since his first title in Japan in 1995.

His first great result in the World Championship was a seventh place in 1996. A year later, he jumped to the fourth position. The runner-up place in 2000 confirmed him as one of the great riders. Completely adapted to European and Spanish life, this Japanese of the eternal smile was able to develop his capabilities and repeated the runner-up place two years, in the shadow of the untouchable Doug Lampkin. The fact to meet in several competitions and be later team mate of the British star allowed him to improve his capacity and ambition until he achieved a well-deserved World Title in 2004.

In 2005, he signed a second position in the championship, ahead of his team mate and seven times World Champion Doug Lampkin. During that Indoor season the Montesa Cota 4RTs with 4-stroke engine had their debut and a year later -2006- despite achieving four victories, more than any of his rivals, he repeated the runner-up position. In 2007 he finished fourth in the Trial Indoor World Championship and third in the outdoor competition. He obtained the same results both in 2008 and 2009, in which he gathered 27 podiums -5 Indoor and 22 outdoor- and a victory in the United States in 2008.

2010 – 2021