Mitoryū Takayuki

In this Japanese shikona name, the surname is Mitoryū.

Mitoryū Takayuki
水戸龍 聖之
File:Mitoryu Takayuki20220718.jpg Mitoryū in 2022
Personal information
Born	Baasansuren Turbold (1994-04-25) April 25, 1994 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Height
Weight	186 kg (410 lb; 29 st 4 lb)
Career
Stable	Nishikido
University	Nihon University
Current rank	see below
Debut	May, 2017
Highest rank	Maegashira 15 (January, 2023)
Championships	1 (Jūryō)
* Up to date as of 22 January 2023.

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 maegashira 15. He wrestles for the Nishikido stable.

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

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Mitoryu during his jūryō debut, January 2018

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 a 9–6 finish.

He reached jūryō 4 in January 2020. In July 2020 at the rank of jūryō 14 he produced a 10–5 record, losing a playoff for the yūshō or championship to Akua. He won his first jūryō championship in July 2021 with a 12-3 record, and reached jūryō 1 in the following September 2021 tournament, narrowly missing out on promotion to the top makuuchi division.

He was forced to sit out the January 2022 tournament after a member of Nishikido stable tested positive for COVID-19.

In September 2022 Mitoryū reached the top division for the first time at maegashira 16.

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

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 3–4	West Makushita #23 5–2	East Makushita #14 6–1	East Makushita #4 6–1
2018	East Jūryō #13 8–7	West Jūryō #10 8–4–3	West Jūryō #9 6–9	West Jūryō #11 8–7	West Jūryō #10 7–8	East Jūryō #12 9–6
2019	West Jūryō #9 6–9	East Jūryō #12 9–6	East Jūryō #9 7–8	East Jūryō #9 9–6	East Jūryō #6 6–9	West Jūryō #9 9–6
2020	West Jūryō #4 6–9	East Jūryō #7 4–11	West Jūryō #14 Tournament Cancelled 0–0–0	West Jūryō #14 10–5–P	East Jūryō #8 6–9	East Jūryō #11 8–7
2021	West Jūryō #10 8–7	East Jūryō #9 5–10	West Jūryō #10 9–6	West Jūryō #6 12–3 Champion	East Jūryō #1 2–7–6	East Jūryō #9 8–7
2022	East Jūryō #7 –1–14	East Jūryō #7 10–5	East Jūryō #3 7–8	West Jūryō #4 9–6	East Maegashira #16 5–10	West Jūryō #3 9–6
2023	West Maegashira #15 7–8	East Maegashira #17 –	x	x	x	x
Record given as win-loss-absent    Top Division Champion 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

• List of sumo tournament second division champions
• List of active sumo wrestlers
• List of non-Japanese sumo wrestlers
• List of heaviest sumo wrestlers

External links

• Mitoryū Takayuki's official biography (English) at the Grand Sumo Homepage