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After that, he enrolled at Sanbongi Agricultural High School along Nishikifuji, [8] and there he notably won the individual competition at the 2012 Gifu National Athletic Sumo Championships. [2] While still an amateur, he and his team would visit the Kindai University sumo club, where Ōnoshō was thus trained by his senior Tokushōryū , among ...
Ōhō began sumo in elementary school, where he did reasonably well in tournaments despite having what he later admitted was a lazy attitude due to buying into his family legacy. [2] He attended Saitama Sakae High School which is famous for its sumo program. He was a high school classmate of future sekitori Kotoshōhō, [3] Kotonowaka and ...
He was finally recruited and attended Kashiwa High School in Chiba Prefecture, along future professional sumo wrestlers Ōshōma and Asahakuryū. [7] There, he first joined the wrestling club, saying he was afraid of sumo, [5] but in his first year he took part in a school trip and visited the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and became interested ...
The tournament is a private event, and only clubs that have received an invitation may take part. [1] The event is an amateur sumo competition. Competitors are between 5 and 15 years old, [1] and are divided into 7 divisions (ranging from first grade to sixth grade and junior high school).
Sumo (Japanese: 相撲, Hepburn: sumō, Japanese pronunciation:, lit. ' striking one another ') [1] is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by throwing, shoving or pushing him down).
Kizaki started sumo wrestling in elementary school in his native Okinawa. While in elementary school, he trained with high school students at Chūbu Norin High School, where his uncle was the sumo coach. In his second year of junior high school he placed in the top 16 in the National Junior High School Sumo Tournament. [2]
When he was in junior high school, he won a mathematical olympiads in his hometown. [3] [4] He also practiced freestyle wrestling and bökh for only one year before coming to Japan. [5] In November 2015, he took part in an amateur sumo tournament in Ulaanbaatar and was noticed by teachers who came to scout promising talents.
Ishida has a background as a sumo wrestler, having competed at amateur level at Tottori Jōhoku High School, a senior high school known for its sports program. There he was a senior to future professional sumo wrestlers Takerufuji and Rōga .