Miyabiyama Tetsushi

雅 山 哲士
Miyabiyama Tetsushi

Personal data
real name	Takeuchi Masato
Born	July 28, 1977
place of birth	Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture
size	1.87 m
Weight	185 kg
Career
Heya	Musashigawa
Career record	654-582-68 599-563-68 (makuuchi)
debut	July 1998
Highest rank	Ōzeki (July 2000)
Tournament victories	2 each in Juryo and Makushita
resignation	March 2013

Miyabiyama Tetsushi ( Japanese 雅 山 哲士 , proper Takeuchi Masato ( 竹 内 雅人 ); born July 28, 1977 in Mito , Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese sumo wrestler .

Career

As a former university athlete , Miyabiyama began his career in professional sumo in the Makushita Tsukedashi special rank in the Makushita Division. In this and the superordinate Jūryō division he already won two tournaments before he made his debut in the Makuuchi division in March 1999 and worked his way up relatively straightforward. In 2000 he was already a sanyaku and was able to deliver a number of promising results, so that he was promoted to Ōzeki in the summer of that year . At that time he was sometimes traded as the upcoming yokozuna .

But even in his first basho in the new rank Miyabiyama could only achieve a make-koshi of 6-9, and his tournament results remained rather poor for an ozeki until an ankle injury heralded the final relegation. He also had to have an operation on his right shoulder because of a chronic problem, so that he was out of two tournaments and then found himself a maegashira . Since then he has mostly belonged to the top of this rank. Occasional high kachi-koshi have brought him back below the sanyaku ranks several times; His previously inadequate ability to continuously deliver a performance commensurate with this level made him fall behind again and again sooner or later.

Miyabiyama was a very powerful rikishi in the beginning, but his strength and speed have decreased for some time. Instead, he has gained body fat percentage. He is very bulky even for a sumo wrestler.

In the meantime it looked as if Miyabiyama could build on his old achievements again. A 10-5 as Komusubi in March 2006, he was able to follow another strong tournament and finish with 14-1 which gave him the chance to be promoted back to ozeki with another good result. But it was only enough for a 10–5. Although he had arithmetically enough wins at the tournament in Nagoya (10) to be able to become ozeki, a promotion was not awarded. His services continued to decline in the following years and he sank in the mediocrity of the sekitori and rose in between in the Jūryō division . After he held the rank of Komusubi again in January 2012 , he could hardly achieve more than 5 wins per tournament and finally rose again to the Jūryō division after the Hatsu Basho 2013. When he after a 3-12 result at the Haru Basho 2013 in Osaka relegation arithmetically, as No. 9 of the Jūryō Division East, could hardly escape, he announced after the last day of the tournament, where he was able to book a victory that he was no longer wants to continue his career in makushita and thus resigns. He will continue to belong to the Sumo Association as Futagoyama-Oyakata .

Web links

Commons : Miyabiyama Tetsushi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Info page of the Japanese Sumo Association