Kotomitsuki Keiji
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| real name | Tamiya Keiji |
| Born | April 11, 1976 |
| place of birth | Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture |
| size | 1.82 m |
| Weight | 159 kg |
| Career | |
| Heya | Sadogatake |
| Career record | 571–367–50 492–343–50 (Makuuchi) |
| debut | March 1999 |
| Highest rank | Ōzeki (July 2007) |
| Tournament victories | 1 (Makuuchi) 1 each in Juryo and Makushita |
| resignation | July 2010 |
Kotomitsuki Keiji , Japanese琴 光 喜 啓 司, proper Tamiya Keiji , 田 宮 啓 司 (born April 11, 1976 in Okazaki , Aichi Prefecture ) is a former Japanese sumo wrestler .
Kotomitsuki moved in March 1999 from the university sumo to professional sport. As a former student at Nihon University , he had already won 27 amateur sports titles. His greatest international success was the amateur world heavyweight title, which he won as the head of the Japanese team in 1999 against the German Jörg Brümmer.
In May 2000, after being promoted to the Makuuchi Division , he had to forego participating in the tournament due to a training injury to his ankle and was therefore immediately relegated. Since November 2000 he has been a permanent fixture in the highest league of Japanese sumo. At his first basho he managed an outstanding 13-2 kachi-koshi and won all three special prizes, which also earned him an immediate promotion to the Sekiwake rank.
There Kotomitsuki could not keep his high level constant for a long time, despite several top results, the most outstanding of which was the tournament victory in the Aki Basho 2001, so that he did not achieve a higher rank and temporarily slipped out of the sanyaku ranks again . Despite the changeability of his successes, Kotomitsuki was always an opponent that should not be underestimated for most of his colleagues.
In 2007 he finally succeeded in shedding the reputation of the "eternal sekiwake": After two good results - albeit almost only against lower maegashiras - in the Natsu Basho (12-3) and Nagoya Basho (13-2, special prizes Kanto -Sho and Gino-Sho ), Kotomitsuki was promoted to Ōzeki on July 25, 2007 . So after 5 years a Japanese was again named ozeki.
Since he was involved in illegal betting and denied this in a conversation with the sumo association, he was expelled from the sumo association in June 2010.
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| SURNAME | Kotomitsuki, Keiji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tamiya Keiji |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese sumo wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Okazaki , Aichi Prefecture , Japan |