National Middle school championships 2023

[Akinomaki 40,161]

The 34th National prefectures Middle school student sumo championships take place tomorrow in the kokugikan - last year the sumo federation had a live stream, nothing on schedule yet.

the team from Saga pref. o

Hitachi Noji from Hakone town for Kanagawa pref.

o

 

The 53rd National Middle school sumo championships (zenchuu) are on Aug. 18th/19th in  Kochi pref https://sumou.zenchuu.jp/

[Akinomaki 40,161]

On 05/08/2023 at 14:20, Akinomaki said:

The 34th National prefectures Middle school student sumo championships take place tomorrow in the kokugikan - last year the sumo federation had a live stream, nothing on schedule yet.

the sumo federation has posted only digest videos this time

open class best 16 (Toyoda not in it) till the individual final

the winner from Oita, Renta Ogawa

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for light weight from best 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq2LAI1r9lg

runner-up Tamashiro from Okinawa o

3rd from Tottori, 1st year Hashimaragata (center) - katakana name, but doesn't look the usual Mongolian style

with Tottori results: http://www.nnn.co.jp/articles/-/114577

team best 16 tournament

1st round https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KpL7VG53Ns

qf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sXG_zyPUSY

sf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ffJ78NIPY

final Saitama-Osaka 3-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGy6Fh2FfWk

runner-up Osaka - mostly from Neyagawa (like Goeido) http://kitakawachi-sumo.com/notice_detail.php?id=55

team 3rd Kagoshima, they lost to Saitama, with (Toyoda's rival) Shigemura (2nd from the left), who finished best 8 in the individuals o

the teams were at sumo-beya again this year - Kanagawa and Fukuoka at Musashigawa-beya https://musashigawa.com/archives/14418

the Ehime team at Futagoyama-beya https://nomura-j.esnet.ed.jp/plugin/blogs/show/1/2/735

 

The pairings for the preliminary 3 rounds of the zenchu on Friday https://sumou.zenchuu.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/個人予選組み合せ.pdf

- for the teams: https://sumou.zenchuu.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/団体予選組み合わせ.pdf

Looks like the sumo federation will have no live stream there either. The final rounds to decide the middle school yokozuna will be aired on NHK-E on the 22nd https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/ZV2ZY9WK2G/

Edited December 11, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,161]

Day 1 of the zenchu - results https://sumou.zenchuu.jp/eventresult/

Individuals aggregated results https://sumou.zenchuu.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/高知全中個人予選集計表.pdf

Toyoda advanced with 3-0, Shigemura likewise. Same for 2 (presumably) Mongolians from Meitoku gijjuku, the local Kochi stronghold, and 2 from Tottori.

Local TV spots

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A zenchu YT channel is pretending to have a low-res live stream, but it looks like a fake channel

Edited August 18, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,161]

Last year Toyoda helped Kashiwa win the team title, beating Shigemura's Koniya team from Amami-Oshima in the sf, this year Kashiwa lost to them in the qf, and Shigemura did beat his old rival - last year they didn't meet. The Koniya team from Kagoshima won the team title 2-1 against the Takanosu team from Akita, after beating the Tottori team in the sf. Shigemura won all his bouts in the team best 32 tournament. https://sumou.zenchuu.jp/result_2023/団体決勝トーナメント対戦表/

Individual results should appear soon

[Akinomaki 40,161]

Now we'll see Kotomitsuki II (but maybe not directly after middle school), his son won in the final against Shigemura, who lost by isami-ashi. Middle school yokozuna Aiki Tamiya (175cm, 150kg) is now at Omiya west middle school in Saitama, 3rd year. https://sumou.zenchuu.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/高知全中個人決勝T対戦表結果.pdf

He also won with the Saitama team at the earlier prefecture championships, his school had no team here.

Edit: Toyoda isn't in the best 32, the result from the earlier round today isn't up yet

Edited August 19, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Katooshu 3,182]

Congrats to little Kotomitsuki, who is a spitting image of dad, but man I feel sorry for Shigemura. To be runner-up last year, then runner-up again this year - losing by isamiashi of all things - has got to be painful.

[Akinomaki 40,161]

On 19/08/2023 at 23:38, Katooshu said:

Congrats to little Kotomitsuki, who is a spitting image of dad

o

Still no results of the first 2 rounds on day 2, but Toyoda was paired against Tamiya in the first round, so that was it for him https://sumou.zenchuu.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/高知全中個人決勝トーナメント１，２回戦.pdf

spectator video from day 1

 

Edited August 21, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,161]

3rd in the team event: Tottori club o

local news from Kochi had focused on the ace from Meitoku, Anand Aditya, who also did the athletes oath (in all news spots above) o

he only made it to the best 16

Edited August 22, 2023 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,161]

The preliminary 3 rounds of the individuals at the zenchu

low-res

[Akinomaki 40,161]

On 19/08/2023 at 09:37, Akinomaki said:

Last year Toyoda helped Kashiwa win the team title, beating Shigemura's Koniya team from Amami-Oshima in the sf, this year Kashiwa lost to them in the qf, and Shigemura did beat his old rival - last year they didn't meet. The Koniya team from Kagoshima won the team title 2-1 against the Takanosu team from Akita, after beating the Tottori team in the sf.

The Koniya team with Shigemura on the 25th had a yusho parade at home in Setouchi town o

 

The winner of the earlier prefectures tournament Renta Ogawa from Oita lost to Tamiya in the sf. o

[Akinomaki 40,161]

Toyoda Rinnosuke (14, 166cm, 114kg) and other amateur rikishi from the Kashiwa Hakurikikai team had a training camp at his hometown on Tokunoshima, from the 1st to the 4th. Rival Shigemura and his Koniya team, the individuals runner-up and team winners this time at the zenchu, were invited to a joint keiko session, but due to a typhoon the ship couldn't come. Toyoda this year won the Kanto championships and still hopes for a good result at the Hakuho cup - future plans: "I aim for yokozuna, but first I'll go to high school" http://amamishimbun.co.jp/2023/09/02/45881/

[Katooshu 3,182]

 Grow taller Rinnosuke. His sumo is quite good, but he's starting to get dwarfed by opponents. I'm surprised he's even 166cm.

Edited September 4, 2023 by Katooshu

[Akinomaki 40,161]

I have no idea why the sumo federation isn't posting any video this year, they scrapped their old live channel, emptied the one with videos and reposted a whole bunch of streams on the live channel recently.

The same low-res channel as above posted all videos now though: Individuals final tournament, including the first 2 rounds, for which at last results were posted on the zenchu site https://sumou.zenchuu.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/高知全中個人決勝トーナメント１・２回戦果.pdf - Tamiya-Toyoda at 9:40m

team final tournament

team preliminaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERLPmw_RT-E

[Akinomaki 40,161]

On 04/09/2023 at 23:45, Akinomaki said:

Toyoda Rinnosuke (14, 166cm, 114kg) and other amateur rikishi from the Kashiwa Hakurikikai team had a training camp at his hometown on Tokunoshima, from the 1st to the 4th. Rival Shigemura and his Koniya team, the individuals runner-up and team winners this time at the zenchu, were invited to a joint keiko session, but due to a typhoon the ship couldn't come. Toyoda this year won the Kanto championships and still hopes for a good result at the Hakuho cup - future plans: "I aim for yokozuna, but first I'll go to high school"

Rinnosuke dreams to become yokozuna, but also wants to get a teacher's license and become a coach like his sensei at the Hakurikikai, who is a 2nd father to him - he wants to have others like him leave the island and gambarize at sumo.

o

- so his path is clear: he's already in Kashiwa, so Nittaidai Kashiwa high and then Nittaidai to get a teacher's license like Nakamura - I expect both Onosato and him to be a good coaches as oyakata once, but I have no expectation that they make it to yokozuna

[Akinomaki 40,161]

On 29/08/2023 at 23:02, Akinomaki said:

On 19/08/2023 at 09:37, Akinomaki said:

Last year Toyoda helped Kashiwa win the team title, beating Shigemura's Koniya team from Amami-Oshima in the sf, this year Kashiwa lost to them in the qf, and Shigemura did beat his old rival - last year they didn't meet. The Koniya team from Kagoshima won the team title 2-1 against the Takanosu team from Akita, after beating the Tottori team in the sf.

The Koniya team with Shigemura on the 25th had a yusho parade at home in Setouchi town

The Koniya team together with Asian/World middle weight champion Ryuyama received one Kagoshima governor sports award for 2023. Shigemura goes on to Osaka Kindai attached high school, aiming for high school yokozuna, Masuyama and the middle school Ryuyama to Kagoshima Jitsugyo high school, all 3 aiming for the team yusho. o

 

Toyoda Rinnosuke also continues to high school (should be Nittaidai Kashiwa high, like Hoshoryu) and apparently then into ozumo (not Nittaidai) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3gl0z9mbxA