Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Duk da wannan koma baya, an zaɓi Kanakuri don shiga wasannin Olympics na 1916, wanda daga baya aka soke shi saboda Yaƙin Duniya na I. Duk da haka, Kanakuri ya yi gasa a wasannin Olympics na 1920 da aka gudanar a Antwerp, Belgium, inda ya gama tseren marathon
a cikin sa'o'i 2, mintuna 48 da dakika 45.4 kuma ya zama na 16. Daga baya Kanakuri ya shiga wasannin Olympics na 1924, inda ya kasa gama tseren. An kuma san Kanakuri da rawar da ya taka wajen kafa wasan tsere na Hakone Ekiden a shekarar 1920. Daga shekara ta 2004, an ba da babbar kyauta a cikin wannan tseren don girmama shi.