Kisenosato Yutaka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kisenosato Yutaka

Japanese sumo wrestler

Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1986

Place of Birth: Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Profession: rikishi

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Kisenosato Yutaka

  • Kisenosato Yutaka (born July 3, 1986, as Yutaka Hagiwara (?? ?, Hagiwara Yutaka)) is a retired sumo wrestler from Ibaraki, Japan.
  • He made his professional debut in 2002, and reached the top makuuchi division in 2004 at the age of just 18.
  • After many years in the junior san'yaku ranks, he reached the second highest rank of ozeki in January 2012.
  • He earned three kinboshi or gold star defeats of yokozuna in his career leading up to ozeki and nine special prizes.
  • He scored more than 20 double-digit winning records at the ozeki rank.
  • In 2016, he secured the most wins in the calendar year, the first wrestler to do so without winning a tournament in that year.After being a runner-up in a tournament on twelve occasions, he broke through at the January 2017 tournament, winning his first top division championship or yusho with a 14–1 record and subsequently was promoted to yokozuna, the first Japanese born wrestler to reach sumo's highest rank since Wakanohana in 1998.
  • He had been a candidate four times previously (July 2013, January 2014, July 2016 and September 2016), but in each case he failed to achieve the necessary number of wins.
  • Kisenosato won his first tournament as a yokozuna in March 2017, but suffered a left chest muscle injury in the process and was not able to complete another tournament until September 2018.
  • His eight straight missed tournaments was a record for a yokozuna.
  • In January 2019, he announced his retirement from sumo.
  • He is now an elder of the Japan Sumo Association under the name of Araiso.

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