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A sumo wrestler from Ukraine is one of three new promotions by the Sumo Association to the second-highest jūryō division for the November 2024 tournament. 20-year-old Aonishiki, a third-place finisher in the 2019 World Junior Sumo Championships, moved to Japan in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the six tournaments since his ...
19 July 2020: 15 March 2021: 7 months and 24 days: Tokisakae: Maegashira 6 Fujiseiun: 21: 10 May 2021: 15 November 2021: 6 months and 5 days: Kamito: Juryo 6 10 Akiseyama: 20: 10 March 2008: 25 July 2008: 4 months and 15 days: Surugatsukasa: Maegashira 12 Tsurugishō: 20: 9 March 2014: 25 July 2014: 4 months and 16 days: Hienriki: Maegashira 6 ...
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.
A pictorial banzuke from the April 1788 basho. A banzuke for onsen (諸国温泉効能鑑, Shokoku onsen kōnō-kan), issued February 1851 (Kaei 4). The rankings on the banzuke are decided by an assembly composed of 20 sumo judges and three supervisors who gather a few days after each official tournament. The assembly assigns ranks to over 600 ...
Takerufuji continued his winning streak with an eighth consecutive victory over Ryūden, becoming the first newly promoted makuuchi wrestler to win that many in 13 years (since Kaisei's debut in 2011), [21] as well as the first such wrestler in modern sumo history to lead a grand sumo tournament alone at the halfway point. [22]
Takanoyama Shuntarō (born 21 February 1983 as Pavel Bojar) is a former sumo wrestler from Prague, Czech Republic.He is the first man from the Czech Republic to join the professional sport in Japan. [2]
All sumo wrestlers are classified in a ranking hierarchy (banzuke), which is updated after each tournament based on the wrestlers' performance. Wrestlers with more wins than losses go up while those with negative records are demoted. The top division is Makuuchi and the second division is Juryo. At the pinnacle of sumo hierarchy is yokozuna.
Shirokuma took the jūryō division title at the July 2024 tournament for his third professional sumo championship, winning his Day 15 contest to avoid a three-way playoff. The result saw him promoted to the top division for the September tournament.