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Theo, a nine-year-old child from Australia, tries to spar against former sumo wrestler Towanoyama in the sumo ring at Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka in Tokyo, Japan on June 30, 2023.
Wrestling for Takasago stable for twenty years from 1964 to 1984, his highest rank was sekiwake. Takamiyama set a number of longevity records in sumo, including most tournaments ranked in the top makuuchi division, and most consecutive top division appearances. In July 1972, he became the first foreign-born wrestler to win the top division ...
The sumo team was banned from competing the remaining sumo events after "poor sportsmanship" following a gold medal win in the men's lightweight in which the winning wrestler, Abdelrahman El-Sefy, celebrated his win in an excessive manner and Ōsunaarashi angrily arguing with officials.
In 2016, he appeared as a figure skating sumo wrestler in a television advertisement for GEICO. [7] In 2017 he promoted a new variety of mandarin orange called the "Sumo Citrus" in Lindsay, California. [8] He featured as a model for the Subaru car company. He appeared in a video for Vice Media showing the diet of a sumo wrestler. [9]
London’s Royal Albert Hall, the gilded concert venue known for an annual “Rule Britannia” singalong, is preparing to host a different kind of spectacle: Sumo wrestling. Camera shutters ...
The first national championship for amateur women's sumo was held in 1997. The rules are identical to men's amateur sumo, with the exception that the wrestlers wear leotards under a mawashi, and the matches last a maximum of three minutes instead of five minutes like the ones in men's amateur sumo. [10]
Musashimaru was the last Hawaiian wrestler in sumo, ending a dynasty that began with Takamiyama in 1964 and at one point in 1996 saw four from the islands ranked in the top division. [8] During his career he had won a total of twelve top division championships, one more than Akebono, and also won over 700 top division bouts, one of only six ...