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SKIPPER: Takao Ninomiya
Takao Ninomiya
Name:
Takao Ninomiya
Age: 57
Nationality: Japan
Current Residence: 
Mie,japan
Sponsor/Team:
Kishu yacht shonendan
ISAF Ranking: 84
Takao Ninomiya won countless number of titles in his youth such as the first 470 All Japan Championship and the first J24 All Japan Championship.
He was also the first Japanese to win an international title when he won the Western Hemisphere Snipe Championship.
Today he takes his profession as a novelist, but also spends much time in fostering new sailing talents through his team, "Kishuu Sailing Boys " in Ise-okushima area.
Winning the Mitsubishi Rayoon Cup 2003 entitled him to compete in Nippon Cup 2003.
This is the second time for him to race in Nippon Cup.


2003 1st Japan Nationals Grade 2:Hayama, Japan
    2nd Nanba Memorial Grade 3:Hayama, Japan
2002   1st Christmas Match Grade 3:Hayama, Japan
2000   2nd Japan Nationals Grade 2:Gamagori,Japan
1997   1st Japan Nationals Grade 2:Gamagori,Japan