Kotonishiki Katsuhiro, Date of Birth

    

Kotonishiki Katsuhiro

Sumo wrestler

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1968

Profession: rikishi

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Kotonishiki Katsuhiro

  • Kotonishiki Katsuhiro (born June 8, 1968 as Hideyuki Matsuzawa) is a former sumo wrestler from Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
  • He began his career in 1984, reaching the top makuuchi division in 1989.
  • He won two top division tournament titles from the maegashira ranks (the only wrestler ever to do so), the first in 1991 and the second in 1998.
  • His highest rank was sekiwake, which he held 21 times.
  • He earned eighteen special prizes during his career, second on the all-time list, and defeated yokozuna eight times when ranked as a maegashira.
  • He retired in 2000 and after a long stint as a sumo coach at Oguruma stable, took the vacant elder name Asahiyama and branched out to form his own stable of the same name.

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