Mitoryū Takayuki

Mitoryū Takayuki (Japanese: 水戸龍 聖之, born April 25, 1994 as Baasansuren Turbold (Mongolian: Баасансүрэнгийн Төрболд)) is a Mongolian professional sumo wrestler from Ulaanbaatar. He began his professional sumo career in 2017 at the age of twenty three. His highest rank to date has been Jūryō 4. He wrestles for the Nishikido stable.

Mitoryū Takayuki
水戸龍 聖之
Mitoryū in 2018
Personal information
BornBaasansuren Turbold
(1994-04-25) April 25, 1994
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Height1.87 m (6 ft 1 12 in)
Weight183 kg (403 lb; 28 st 11 lb)
Career
StableNishikido
UniversityNihon University
Current ranksee below
DebutMay, 2017
Highest rankJuryo 4 (January, 2020)
* Up to date as of January 24, 2021.

Early life and education

Growing up in Mongolia Turbold was a great athlete participating in many different sports like judo, basketball, darts, and speed skating. He was especially good at speed skating having the ability to win at the district level. For high school Turbold studied abroad in Japan at Tottori Johoku, this is where he started training in sumo. After graduating from high school he entered Nihon University and their sumo club. In his third year at the university he won the All-Japan Sumo Championship giving him the title of amateur Yokozuna (the first foreigner to do so). The following year he served as the club captain, and won the National Student Sumo Championship and giving him the title of Student Yokozuna (also the first foreigner to do so).

Career

After graduating from university Turbold entered Nishikido stable, recruited by former sekiwake Mitoizumi. His amateur success granted him Makushita tsukedashi status, allowing him skip the lower divisions and start at Makushita 15. He started his career with a makekoshi or losing record but quickly rebounded with three consecutive winning records. After this string of winning records he was given sekitori status by being promoted to the jūryō division. He was the first sekitori produced by his stable since its founding in 2002. He started off his jūryō debut with a winning 8–7, he followed this up with another winning record although he had to withdraw the last four days with he injury. The next tournament he was unable to achieve a winning record managing only a 6–9 record. He rebounded to with a 8–7 winning record the following tournament but suffered only his third losing record with a 7–8 finish. He rebounded yet again to get his highest winning record yet with a 9–6 finish.

Fighting style

Mitoryū is a yotsu-sumo wrestler, preferring grappling techniques to pushing and thrusting. His most common winning kimarite is a straightforward yori kiri, or force out, and he uses a migi-yotsu grip on the mawashi or belt, with his right hand inside and left hand outside his opponent's arms.

Career record

Mitoryū Takayuki[1]
Year in sumo January
Hatsu basho, Tokyo
March
Haru basho, Osaka
May
Natsu basho, Tokyo
July
Nagoya basho, Nagoya
September
Aki basho, Tokyo
November
Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
2017 x x Makushita tsukedashi #15
34
 
West Makushita #23
52
 
East Makushita #14
61
 
East Makushita #4
61
 
2018 East Jūryō #13
87
 
West Jūryō #10
843
 
West Jūryō #9
69
 
West Jūryō #11
87
 
West Jūryō #10
78
 
East Jūryō #12
96
 
2019 West Jūryō #9
69
 
East Jūryō #12
96
 
East Jūryō #9
78
 
East Jūryō #9
96
 
East Jūryō #6
69
 
West Jūryō #9
96
 
2020 West Jūryō #4
69
 
East Jūryō #7
411
 
West Jūryō #14
Tournament Cancelled
000
West Jūryō #14
105P
 
East Jūryō #8
69
 
East Jūryō #11
87
 
2021 West Jūryō #10
87
 
x x x x x
Record given as win-loss-absent    Top Division Champion Top Division Runner-up Retired Lower Divisions

Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique     Also shown: =Kinboshi(s); P=Playoff(s)
Divisions: Makuuchi Jūryō Makushita Sandanme Jonidan Jonokuchi

Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna Ōzeki Sekiwake Komusubi Maegashira

See also

References

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