This year, a banzuke organization meeting was held for the Sumo Spring Tournament in March, and Takakage Wakakage, an experienced sekiwake who won the Makushita championship in his first tournament, will be returning to Juryo.

The ranking organization meeting for the Spring Tournament this March was held on the 31st at the Kokugikan in Ryogoku, Tokyo.



As a result, no new wrestlers were promoted to Juryo


, except for Takakage Wakakage of Arashio Stable, who won the Makushita title in his first tournament, and


37-year-old Kita*Hari of Yamabiki Stable, who went on to win with 4 wins and 3 losses.

Four players have been promoted to jūryō again:

Miyagino


Stable's Hakuoho, who has returned from injury and has a record of 6 wins and 1 loss,


and Sakaigawa Stable's experienced jūryō player Hiroshi Ima .

Of these, Takakage Wakakage injured his right knee at last spring's tournament, where he was a sekiwake in Higashi, and had to take a break from the tournament.After that, he underwent surgery and missed three tournaments in a row.

Since the summer tournament of 2018, he has fallen from the position of sekitori, which he had held for nearly six years, but he returned to the Kyushu tournament last year, where he won 5 wins and 2 losses in the sixth makushita tournament in the east. They took the lead in Makushita, and with their characteristic tough attacks from below, they won a number of wins, winning all seven matches.

In addition, Kita*Harima, the second makushita player in the west, won against Juryo's Tenkukai on the 14th day of the first tournament and went on to win 4 wins and 3 losses, the first time in 21 tournaments since the Autumn Tournament in 2020. I decided to promote him to Juryo.

He was promoted to jūryō at the age of 37 years, 6 months, and 29 days, making him the second-oldest player in the postwar period.

20-year-old Hakuoho showed an active role in competing for the championship at last year's Nagoya Tournament, which was his new debut, but he underwent surgery on his left shoulder and had to miss two consecutive tournaments starting with the Autumn Tournament.

His first place, which was the place of his return, was at the 5th block of Makushita in the west, where he had a good record of 6 wins and 1 loss.

The first day of the Grand Sumo Spring Tournament will be held on March 10th this year at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium.

*"Hari" is "Ishihen" and "Ban"