Tamarikidō Hideki
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Tamarikidō Hideki (born April 19, 1974) is a former
sumo is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by th ...
wrestler born in Edogawa,
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. Though born in Japan, he is a
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and a member of Mindan. His highest rank was ''
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'' 8. A former amateur champion, he turned professional in 1997, reaching the top ''
makuuchi , or , is the top division of Professional sumo divisions, the six divisions of professional sumo. Its size is fixed at 42 wrestlers (''rikishi''), ordered into five ranks according to their ability as defined by their performance in previous ...
'' division in 2001. He had many injury problems throughout his career, missing over 100 matches, and last fought in ''makuuchi'' in 2003. He announced his retirement in January 2010.


Career

He was born in
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, and is a third generation Korean-Japanese. He was a teammate of Takanohana at the Meidai Nakano High School's sumo club. He was also a former amateur sumo champion at
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, and was considered extremely promising. He came third in the All Japan Sumo Championships. He made his professional debut in March 1997 at the bottom of the third ''
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'' division. He was a runner-up in his first tournament but had a few setbacks before finally reaching the second highest ''
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'' division in September 1999. Tamarikidō made his debut in the top ''
makuuchi , or , is the top division of Professional sumo divisions, the six divisions of professional sumo. Its size is fixed at 42 wrestlers (''rikishi''), ordered into five ranks according to their ability as defined by their performance in previous ...
'' division in January 2001. He has spent eleven tournaments in the top division in total, the last in November 2003 when he had to withdraw after winning only two bouts. 2004 was a disastrous year for him as a knee injury in May meant he missed nearly all his matches and fell to the fourth ''
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'' division. It was subsequently discovered that due to the lack of treatment of earlier injuries, his
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was completely worn away. He began his comeback in 2005, winning the ''
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'' division championship in March of that year. He eventually managed to return to the ''jūryō'' division in March 2006, and having fallen to ''sandanme'' 80, he was the lowest ranking former top division wrestler ever to regain ''
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'' status. He had climbed as high as ''jūryō'' 4 by the November 2006 tournament. However, he was demoted back to the unsalaried ranks after the September 2007 tournament when he managed only a 3–12 score at ''jūryō'' 12. He continued to slide down the rankings, with four consecutive ''
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'' scores of 3–4 from November 2007 to May 2008. After recording only one win in November 2008 he was demoted back to the ''sandanme'' division for the January 2009 tournament. He made an immediate return to the third division with a 6–1 score.


Retirement from sumo

Tamarikidō retired after the January 2010 tournament, with a final day defeat to
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leaving him with a 1–6 record. His ''
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'', or retirement ceremony, was held in June at the
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. He stayed in sumo as a coach at Kataonami stable under the ''
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'' name Araiso Oyakata. In June 2013 he switched to the Nishonoseki name after it was vacated by the retiring stablemaster Kongō. In 2014 he swapped elder names with Matsugane Oyakata, the former '' ōzeki'' Wakashimazu, and joined the renamed Nishonoseki stable. In August 2020 it was announced that he had tested positive for
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, although he had not been displaying symptoms and was not believed to have been in close contact with other sumo personnel during the most recent tournament.


Fighting style

Tamarikidō preferred to fight on the opponent's ''
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'', and his favoured grip was (somewhat unusually) ''morozashi'', or double hand inside. His most common winning ''
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'' was ''yori-kiri'', a straightforward force out.


Career record


See also

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Glossary of sumo terms The following words are terms used in sumo wrestling in Japan. A B C D E F G H ...
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List of sumo tournament second division champions This is a list of wrestlers who have won the sumo second division ''jūryō'' championship since 1909, when the current championship system was established. These official tournaments are held exclusively in Japan. The wrestler who has won the mo ...
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List of past sumo wrestlers This is a list of prominent past wrestlers (either retired or deceased) in the sport of professional sumo. They are listed in order of the year and tournament month that they made their professional debuts. The information listed below was gleaned ...
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List of sumo elders This is a list of toshiyori, elders of the Japan Sumo Association (JSA). More accurately called "elder stock" or ''toshiyori kabu,'' these names are a finite number of licenses that can be passed on, and are strictly controlled by the JSA. They all ...


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tamarikido Hideki 1974 births Living people Japanese people of Korean descent Japanese sumo wrestlers People from Edogawa, Tokyo Sumo people from Tokyo Zainichi Korean sumo wrestlers Meiji University alumni