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He has been a play-by-play announcer since 1999, and since 2016 he has covered sumo tournament news, including host of the program Grand Sumo Preview and color commentator on Grand Sumo Highlights. [1] [3] [5] He is one of a roster of English-language play-by-play announcers for sumo tournaments that air live on NHK.
While Kotonowaka lost out on the makuuchi championship, the win in his scheduled Day 15 match gave him a total of 33 wins in the last three tournaments at the san'yaku ranks, which is the de facto standard to earn promotion to sumo's second-highest rank of ōzeki.
His victory on Day 15 avoided the need for a playoff with the winner of the day's final match, new ōzeki Asanoyama, who defeats sekiwake Shodai (11-4). Asanoyama finishes sole runner-up on 12–3. Terunofuji is also awarded his first Technique Prize, and shares the Outstanding Performance Award with Mitakeumi and komusubi Daieisho (11-4 ...
He is currently the longest-serving commentator on Grand Sumo Highlights. [9] In 2007, Mihara was appointed as one of the anchors of NHK Newsline . [ 3 ] He also served as NHK's English-language speed skating commentator during the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and baseball commentator. [ 10 ]
16: Yokozuna Terunofuji withdraws on the fifth day of the January tournament after suffering a first-day loss to Wakatakakage and conceding a gold star to Tobizaru on Day 4. It is his 13th absence in 21 tournaments at sumo's highest rank. [6] Later that day, Japanese media learn through sources at the Sumo Association that Terunofuji has ...
The championship is determined by the wrestler with the highest win–loss score after fifteen bouts, held at a rate of one per day over the duration of the 15-day tournament. In the event of a tie a play-off is held between the wrestlers concerned. [2] Names in bold mark an undefeated victory (a zenshō-yūshō).
The jūryō championship is decided in a playoff, with top-ranked Gōnoyama defeating 19-year-old Ochiai to clinch his second championship in sumo. It is the first time since 15-day tournaments began in 1949 that the jūryō championship is decided in a playoff between two wrestlers with 14–1 records. [50]
Akiseyama Mitsuhiko (Japanese: 明瀬山 光彦, born July 18, 1985 as Mitsuhiko Fukao (深尾 光彦, Fukao Mitsuhiko)) is a former Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Kasugai, Aichi. An amateur sumo competitor while studying at Nihon University , he made his professional debut in January 2008.