Toshimitsu Obata, also known as Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, was a sumo wrestler.
He was the dominant yokozuna in sumo during the 1970s. Kitanoumi was promoted to yokozuna at the age 21, becoming the youngest ever to achieve sumo's top rank, and he remained a yokozuna for a record 63 tournaments. He won 24 tournament championships during his career and was one of a series of truly great yokozuna who came from Hokkaido
He still holds the record for most bouts won as a yokozuna (670), was the 55th yokozuna and had the fifth-most grand sumo tournament wins in history. Following his retirement in 1985 at the age of 31, he established the Kitanoumi stable. He was chairman of the Japan Sumo Association from 2002 until 2008, and from 2012 until his death.
Kitanoumi was from S...
Toshimitsu Obata, also known as Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, was a sumo wrestler.
He was the dominant yokozuna in sumo during the 1970s. Kitanoumi was promoted to yokozuna at the age 21, becoming the youngest ever to achieve sumo's top rank, and he remained a yokozuna for a record 63 tournaments. He won 24 tournament championships during his career and was one of a series of truly great yokozuna who came from Hokkaido
He still holds the record for most bouts won as a yokozuna (670), was the 55th yokozuna and had the fifth-most grand sumo tournament wins in history. Following his retirement in 1985 at the age of 31, he established the Kitanoumi stable. He was chairman of the Japan Sumo Association from 2002 until 2008, and from 2012 until his death.
Kitanoumi was from Sobetsu, Hokkaido. He debuted as a sumo wrestler at the age of 13, appearing at the New Year’s Grand Sumo Tournament in January 1967 from the Mihogaseki stable.
He was promoted to the second-tier juryo division in the summer tournament in 1971 at age 17, and in 1972, he was elevated to the top makuuchi division in the January tournament at the age of 18.
He passed away on November 20, 2015 at the age of 62 as a result of rectal cancer and multiple organ failure.
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