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The Emperor's Cup has been awarded to the winner of top division tournaments since 1925. This is a list of wrestlers who have won the top division (makuuchi) championship in professional sumo since 1909, when the current championship system was established.
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The table below lists the runners up in the top makuuchi division at official sumo tournaments or honbasho since the six tournaments per year system was instituted in 1958. The runner up is determined by the wrestler(s) with the second highest win–loss score after fifteen bouts, held at a rate of one per day over the duration of the 15-day ...
Makuuchi (幕内), or makunouchi (幕の内), is the top division. It is fixed at 42 wrestlers who are ranked according to their performance in previous tournaments. At the top of the division are the four ranks of "titleholders", or "champions" called the san'yaku, comprising yokozuna, ōzeki, sekiwake and komusubi.
Yūshō (優勝, victory, championship [1]) is the term for a championship in Japanese. This article focuses on championships in the sport of professional sumo. Kotoōshū, winner of the May 2008 yūshō, receives the Emperor's Cup. It is awarded in each of the six annual honbasho or official tournaments, to the wrestler who wins the most bouts.
won first officially recognized sumo top division championship: Tamatsubaki Kentaro: 1897-1 1916-1 Sekiwake Ikazuchi: at 158 cm, the shortest wrestler in history: Ōnishiki Daigorō: 1898-11 1922-1 Yokozuna Asahiyama: active in Osaka sumo: Ōkido Moriemon: 1899-9 1914-1 Yokozuna Minato: only yokozuna who spent his whole career in Osaka sumo
Four-time komusubi, jūryō champion, equalled second-fastest rise to top division since 1958: Hōshōryū 豊昇龍: West Ōzeki 1 2017-11 Tatsunami May 22, 1999 (age 25) Ulaanbaatar: Sixth Mongolian to be promoted to sumo's highest rank, known for throwing and tripping techniques, the nephew of Asashōryū. Ichiyamamoto 一山本
Hōshōryū won his first title in the top division in July 2023, which subsequently promoted him to the rank of ōzeki. After finishing as the runner-up at the November 2024 tournament, Hōshōryū won his second top-division title in January 2025 and was promoted to professional sumo's highest rank, becoming the 74th yokozuna. [1] [2]