Kisenosato Yutaka

Kisenosato Yutaka (born July 3, 1986 as Yutaka Hagiwara (萩原 寛 Hagiwara Yutaka)) is a 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. His highest rank to date is ōzeki, which he reached in January 2012. He earned three kinboshi or gold star defeats of yokozuna in his career leading up to ōzeki, tying him for third with Toyonoshima on the list of active kinboshi winners after Aminishiki and Takayasu. He has been runner-up in a tournament on eight occasions, but has yet to win his first top division championship or yūshō.

Early life and sumo background

Though Hagiwara was a fan of watching sumo from a young age, he was on his schools' baseball teams in primary and junior high school. He eventually gave up when he realized he was only excelling because of his size. On a chance meeting with then head of Naruto stable, the former yokozuna Takanosato, the head of the stable convinced Hagiwara's initially skeptical parents that he was a great candidate for sumo. Hagiwara eventually joined the stable upon finishing junior high school.

2017

2017 (MMXVII) will be a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2017th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 17th year of the 3rd millennium, the 17th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.

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