Yamato Gō
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| Personal information | ||
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| Birth name | George Kalima | |
| Date of birth | December 17, 1969 | |
| Place of birth | Hawaii, USA | |
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 21⁄2 in) | |
| Weight | 191 kg (420 lb) | |
| Career* | ||
| Heya | Magaki | |
| Record | 251-198-24 | |
| Debut | November, 1990 | |
| Highest rank | Maegashira 12 (March, 1997) | |
| Retired | September, 1998 | |
| Yusho | 1 (Jonokuchi) | |
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* Career information is correct as of July 2007. |
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Yamato Go (born 17 December 1969 as George Kalima) is a former sumo wrestler from Oahu, Hawaii, United States. His highest rank was maegashira 12.
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[edit] Career
He was a schoolfriend of future yokozuna Akebono. He made his professional debut in November 1990, joining Magaki stable. His brother, Glenn, joined two months later, competing under the name of Onami. Yamato reached the salaried sekitori ranks in March 1995 when he was promoted to the juryo division. He reached the top makuuchi division in January 1997, the first wrestler from his stable to do so since it was re-established in 1983. He chalked up a winning record of 8-7 in his debut and was ranked there for seven tournaments. He was forced to sit out the March 1998 tournament with a life-threatening bout of pneumonia which sent him down to juryo. Still not fully recovered in May, he turned in a disastrous 1-14 record and fell to the unsalaried makushita division. Just before the July tournament he was hit by a car and was forced to withdraw once again. This sent him down to the bottom of makushita. After a 5-2 score in September he decided to retire rather than face another long struggle back up the rankings, and started up his own restaurant, Kama'āina's, in Tokyo's Roppongi district.[1]
Although Yamato never rose high enough in the rankings to face a yokozuna in tournament competition, he once defeated Takanohana eight times in a row in training.[1]
[edit] Top division record
| January Hatsu basho, Tokyo |
March Haru basho, Osaka |
May Natsu basho, Tokyo |
July Nagoya basho, Nagoya |
September Aki basho, Tokyo |
November Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka |
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| 1997 | West Maegashira #14 8–7 |
West Maegashira #12 7–8 |
West Maegashira #14 7–8 |
West Maegashira #15 6–9 |
(Jūryō) | East Maegashira #12 7–8 |
| 1998 | East Maegashira #14 7–8 |
Sat out due to injury | (Jūryō) | (Makushita) | (Makushita) | 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 |
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Panek, Mark (2006). Gaijin Yokozuna. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-3043-1.
- ^ Rikishi in Juryo and Makunouchi (English). szumo.hu. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
