Mienoumi Tsuyoshi

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三重ノ海剛司
Mienoumi Tsuyoshi
Personal information

Birth name	Ishiyama Gorō
Date of birth	February 4, 1948 (1948-02-04) (age 60)
Place of birth	Matsusaka, Mie
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+¹⁄₂ in)
Weight	135 kg (300 lb)
Career*
Heya	Dewanoumi
Record	695-525-56 (1 draw)
Debut	July, 1963
Highest rank	Yokozuna (September, 1979)
Retired	November, 1980
Yusho	3 (Makuuchi) 1 (Sandanme)
Special Prizes	Outstanding Performance (5) Fighting Spirit (1) Technique (3)
Gold stars	5 (Wajima (2), Kitanoumi, Kotozakura, Kitanofuji)
* Career information is correct as of August 2007.

Mienoumi Tsuyoshi (三重ノ海剛司, born February 4, 1948 as Ishiyama Gorō (石山五郎)^?) is a former champion sumo wrestler, the 57th yokozuna of the sport. He was born in Mie prefecture, Japan.

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

[edit] Career

His first bout was in July 1963, aged just 15. He was promoted to jūryō division in March 1969, and makuuchi, the top division, in September 1969. In July of the following year, he reached the rank of komusubi, defeating two yokozuna (Taihō and Tamanoumi) and receiving his first prize (shukunshō). He was promoted to sekiwake the following September. He won his first makuuchi tournament in November 1975 and was promoted to ōzeki the following January. He lost a majority of bouts in the next two tournaments, resulting in an automatic demotion back to sekiwake, but a good result of 10 wins to 5 losses in the next tournament was sufficient to restore him to ōzeki.

In September 1979 he was finally promoted to yokozuna. The 97 tournaments it took him to do so is the slowest ever progress to sumo's top rank. He won the second and third tournaments as yokozuna, but after this had several absences due to injury and illness, fighting a full fifteen bouts in only four tournaments as yokozuna, before retiring in November 1980. He has the lowest win-loss ratio of any post-war yokozuna.

[edit] After retirement

Upon retirement Mienoumi took the name of Musashigawa Oyakata and established Musashigawa stable in 1981. By 2000 it had become one of the strongest stables in sumo with a yokozuna, Musashimaru, and three ōzeki, Dejima, Musoyama and Miyabiyama. He also serves as a Director of the Japan Sumo Association. He performed an early kanreki dohyō-iri in 2007 (normally performed on a yokozuna's 60th birthday) to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of Musashigawa stable.

[edit] Top division record

Mienoumi^[1]
	January Hatsu basho, Tokyo	March Haru basho, Osaka	May Natsu basho, Tokyo	July Nagoya basho, Nagoya	September Aki basho, Tokyo	November Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
1969	x	x	x	x	East Maegashira #11 8–7	East Maegashira #5 8–7
1970	West Maegashira #3 4–11	West Maegashira #9 8–7	West Maegashira #6 11–4	West Komusubi 8–7 O	West Sekiwake 6–9	West Maegashira #1 5–10
1971	West Maegashira #3 6–9	West Maegashira #4 5–10	East Maegashira #11 10–5	West Maegashira #3 7–8	East Maegashira #4 10–5 F	West Komusubi 11–4 T
1972	East Sekiwake 8–7	West Sekiwake 8–7	West Sekiwake 9–6	East Sekiwake 5–2–8	East Maegashira #1 4–11	East Maegashira #7 8–7
1973	West Maegashira #3 11–4 O★	West Komusubi 10–5 T	West Sekiwake 8–7	West Sekiwake 4–11	West Maegashira #2 8–7 ★	West Maegashira #1 4–11
1974	East Maegashira #6 8–7	West Maegashira #3 8–7	East Maegashira #1 5–9–1	West Maegashira #5 5–10	West Maegashira #10 11–3–1draw	East Maegashira #2 5–10
1975	West Maegashira #6 10–5 O★★	East Maegashira #1 11–4 O★	West Sekiwake 9–6	East Sekiwake 8–7	East Sekiwake 11–4	East Sekiwake 13–2 OT
1976	East Ōzeki 8–7	West Ōzeki 2–6–7	East Ōzeki 2–8–5	West Sekiwake 10–5	East Ōzeki 9–6	East Ōzeki 8–7
1977	East Ōzeki 8–7	West Ōzeki 8–7	East Ōzeki 5–10	East Ōzeki 8–7	West Ōzeki 7–8	West Ōzeki 9–6
1978	East Ōzeki 10–5	West Ōzeki 8–7	East Ōzeki 11–4	East Ōzeki 9–6	East Ōzeki 10–5	East Ōzeki 10–5
1979	East Ōzeki 11–4	East Ōzeki 10–5	East Ōzeki 13–2	East Ōzeki 14–1	East Yokozuna 11–4	West Yokozuna 14–1
1980	East Yokozuna 15–0	East Yokozuna 1–4–10	West Yokozuna 10–5	West Yokozuna 4–6–5	Sat out due to injury	West Yokozuna 0–3–retired
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