Tochiōzan Yūichirō

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栃煌山雄一郎
Tochiōzan Yūichirō
Personal information

Birth name	Yūichirō Kageyama
Date of birth	March 9, 1987 (1987-03-09) (age 21)
Place of birth	Kōchi, Japan
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	149 kg (330 lb)
Career*
Heya	Kasugano
Current rank	Maegashira 5
Record	137-86-5
Debut	January 2005
Highest rank	Maegashira 4 (May 2007)
Yusho	1 (Sandanme)
Special Prizes	Fighting Spirit (1), Technique (1)
* Career information is correct as of May 2008.

Tochiōzan Yūichirō (born March 9, 1987 as Yūichirō Kageyama) is a sumo wrestler from Kochi Prefecture, Japan. His highest rank has been maegashira 4.

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

[edit] Career

Regarded as one of the most promising Japanese rikishi,^[1] Tochiōzan entered professional sumo under his family name Kageyama in 2005, making his ring debut at the March tournament. He rose through the divisions quickly, winning the third lowest sandanme division championship in November of that same year. In September 2006 at the age of 19 he became a salaried sekitori wrestler when he entered jūryō, the second highest division, adopting the ring name Tochiōzan.

He made his debut in the top makuuchi division in March 2007, where he was in contention for the championship until the 14th day. He finished with a strong 11-4 record and won the Fighting Spirit award. Promoted to maegashira for the May tournament, he faced all the top ranked wrestlers for the first time and faltered with a 6-9 record, suffering the first tournament in his career where he had more losses than wins (make-koshi).^[2] At the July tournament the same year he suffered a dislocated shoulder on the tenth day and was forced to withdraw. Ranked at maegashira 13 in September, he defeated his rival from his high school sumo days, Gōeidō, for the first time in his professional career but he finished the tournament with a disappointing 7-8 score, losing his last five bouts. He remained at the bottom of the division for the next few tournaments, struggling with lower back pain, but returned to form in March 2008, finishing with 11-4 and winning the Technique award. He struggled once again in May however, losing his first eight bouts before staging a partial recovery to finish on 5-10.

[edit] Top division record

Tochiōzan Yūichirō^[3]
	January Hatsu basho, Tokyo	March Haru basho, Osaka	May Natsu basho, Tokyo	July Nagoya basho, Nagoya	September Aki basho, Tokyo	November Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
2007	x	East Maegashira #14 11–4 F	West Maegashira #4 6–9	East Maegashira #7 4–6–5	West Maegashira #13 7–8	East Maegashira #15 7–8
2008	East Maegashira #15 8–7	East Maegashira #12 11–4 T	East Maegashira #5 5–10	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