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Three are promoted for the first time. One is 23-year-old Kusano , a former Nihon University student who is a National Student Sumo champion and subsequent makushita tsukedashi entrant into the sport. The others are 21-year-olds Wakanoshō and Ōtsuji , both of whom had placed third in the National Junior High School Sumo championships.
Wrestlers can be listed in the order of their rank as of the most current January/Hatsu 2025 banzuke, by clicking the 'Current rank' sorting button.; The East side of the banzuke is regarded as more prestigious than the West side and those ranked on the East will generally have had a slightly better record in the previous tournament than those with the same rank on the West.
1984 in sumo - Wakashimazu takes home his 1st and 2nd yusho, Kitanoumi wins his 24th and final yusho, Takanosato wins 4th and final yusho as well, surprise maegashira 12 Tagaryū claims a yusho, Chiyonofuji claims 10th yusho. 1983 in sumo - Both Chiyonofuji and Takanosato win 2 yusho, with Kotokaze and Hokuten'yū winning the other two ...
The sumo tournament held in Nagoya every July is scheduled to move from the older Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium (Dolphins Arena) to the new IG Arena starting in 2025, [9] which the Japan Sumo Association will refer to as the Aichi International Arena.
23: The Sumo Association releases the banzuke for the first grand sumo tournament of 2025, to be held in January in Tokyo's Ryōgoku Kokugikan. The tournament will see two ōzeki, Kotozakura and Hōshōryū, vying for promotion to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna.
Mark Jones, a former Spruce Creek football player, will compete in the amateur sumo championship in Japan.
On the morning of January 29, 2025, the full board of the Sumo Association accepted the council's recommendation and unanimously promoted Hōshōryū to yokozuna. [97] Hōshōryū is the sixth Mongolian to be promoted to sumo's highest rank, and the first wrestler to be promoted to yokozuna since Terunofuji in July 2021. [2]
Rishikis from Japan's Sumo Kyokai, Daisuke Kitanowaka, right, and Akira Fukutsuumi pose for a photo call outside of London's Royal Albert Hall in London, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024 where the UK's ...