Shigeru Matsui

Honestly, motorboat racing doesn't get nearly enough credit outside Japan, and Shigeru Matsui is exactly the kind of figure who deserves more attention. Born in Osaka in 1969, he's a kyotei racer — one of those athletes who earns a living by threading a propeller-driven hull around tight buoys at terrifying speed on open water, where the margin between a podium finish and a capsize can be a fraction of a second. He has stacked up top-grade titles, including three wins in the season-ending Prize King Final, which honestly suits the archetype — all craft, no noise. A career spent on the water rather than under stadium lights, but the competition is brutally real. That's a kind of respect I don't hand out lightly.

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Shigeru Matsui is a Japanese motorboat racing athlete born on November 11, 1969, in Osaka Prefecture. He competes in the professional circuit of kyotei, the high-speed boat racing sport uniquely popular in Japan. A native of Osaka, he has built his career on the water, where split-second timing and engine mastery define success. Born in Suita, he debuted in May 1989 as racer No. 3415 and has won the Grand Prix (then the Prize King Final) in 1999, 2006 and 2009 among his SG titles.

Name (English)

Shigeru Matsui

Name (Japanese)

松井繁

Reading

まつい しげる

Born

November 11, 1969 (age 56)

Origin

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Motorboat Racing Athlete

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rooster

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E4%BA%95%E7%B9%81
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11529183

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Motorboat Racing Athlete

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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