Hakurozan Yūta

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白露山佑太
Hakurozan Yūta
Personal information

Birth name	Batraz Feliksovich Boradzov
Date of birth	February 6, 1982 (1982-02-06) (age 26)
Place of birth	Russia
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	137 kg (300 lb)
Career*
Heya	Kitanoumi, formerly Hatachiyama
Current rank	Maegashira 15
Record	226-210-0
Debut	May 2002
Highest rank	Maegashira 2 (July 2006)
* Career information is correct as of May 2008.

Hakurozan Yūta (born February 6, 1982 as Batraz Feliksovich Baradzov, Russian: Батраз Феликсович Борадзов, in Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in the Russian Federation) is a sumo wrestler. The highest rank he has reached is maegashira 2. His older brother is also a sumo wrestler, under the name of Rohō of Ōtake stable.

1 Career
2 Top division record
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Career

Hakurozan began wrestling at the age of 14, winning the world junior championship aged 16. He started sumo aged 18, winning the Moscow over 100kg championship.

He came to Japan in February 2002 with his brother. They had intended to join the same stable, but sumo regulations limit the number of foreign wrestlers to one per stable, so Batraz joined Hatachiyama stable while Soslan entered Ōtake stable. As with his brother, his shikona contains the character 露, which can mean Russia. Hatachiyama stable folded upon the death of its stablemaster, former ōzeki Hokutenyū, and Hakurozan is now a member of the Kitanoumi stable.

Hakurozan fought his first bout in May 2002, rising to jūryō in September 2004, and makuuchi in July 2005. After a 10-5 result in May 2006 he reached maegashira 2, but a disastrous 2-13 the following tournament took him down to maegashira 10. He clung on to his top division status with an 8-7 mark at maegashira 14 in January 2007, but a poor 5-10 record in March meant he was demoted back to jūryō for the May 2007 tournament. He achieved nine wins there, which was enough to earn promotion to the top division in July. However, hampered by chronic knee problems, he could manage only three wins in the November 2007 tournament and was demoted to the second division once again. Scraping by with two 8-7 marks in the first two tournaments of 2008, he returned to makuuchi at maegashira 15 in May. Once again he could not maintain his top division ranking, only managing to win four matches.

Hakurozan often relies on sidestepping at the tachi-ai, like his brother. He frequently employs pull-down techniques such as hataki-komi and hiki-otoshi.^[1]

[edit] Top division record

Hakurozan Yūta^[2]
	January Hatsu basho, Tokyo	March Haru basho, Osaka	May Natsu basho, Tokyo	July Nagoya basho, Nagoya	September Aki basho, Tokyo	November Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
2005	x	x	x	West Maegashira #14 8–7	East Maegashira #12 7–8	East Maegashira #13 10–5
2006	East Maegashira #4 4–11	East Maegashira #12 9–6	West Maegashira #8 10–5	East Maegashira #2 2–13	West Maegashira #10 5–10	West Maegashira #14 7–8
2007	West Maegashira #14 8–7	East Maegashira #13 5–10	(Jūryō)	East Maegashira #12 6–9	East Maegashira #15 9–6	West Maegashira #12 3–12
2008	(Jūryō)	(Jūryō)	East Maegashira #15 4–11	x	x	x
Record given as win-loss-absent Championship Retired Demoted from makuuchi Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique Also shown: ★=Kinboshi Divisions: Makuuchi — Jūryō — Makushita — Sandanme — Jonidan — Jonokuchi Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna — Ōzeki — Sekiwake — Komusubi — Maegashira