39th Wampaku sumo 2024

[Akinomaki 40,666]

On Aug 4th in the kokugikan - live stream:

PR by Onosato, who was there as 5th and 6th year

[Katooshu 3,265]

A very animated Ukrainian just won the 4th grade title 

[Akinomaki 40,666]

This year with wampaku rikishi from Mongolia and the Ukraine - and in 4th year Ukrainian Yevgen Grizkow(?) グリツコフ エフゲン made it to yokozuna

pairings: https://drive.google.com/file/u/0/d/188XVR0rO9eZpwDDmuyAcwoUXB6CqmW1K/

Edited August 4, 2024 by Akinomaki

[aderechelsea 125]

I love "modern times", "nowadays", or however you call today. We can watch the future of sumo online so easily

Years ago we would ask Martina if she could take pics of our lower div "adoptees" too see how they look-evolve.

Lovely stuff

[Akinomaki 40,666]

Not only last year's 4th and 5th year yokozuna did a dohyo-iri to start the event - with team members as attendants and gyoji, before the quarter-finals the 24 participants did a makuuchi doyho-iri - a sanyaku dohyo-iri: qf losers are komusubi, sf losers sekiwake and final losers ozeki. And these top 8 wampaku rikishi of each year also did the sekitori salt throwing in their qf -final bouts. And to have the ozumo relation of this event complete (opposed to the clean amateur touch of the primary school student championships), members (one as gyoji) of last year's winning team did a yumitori-shiki to conclude the tournament.

[Bunbukuchagama 739]

13 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Yevgen Grizkow(?) グリツコフ エフゲン

Should rather be Evgeny Gritskov (Евгений Грицков) or something close to it. 

[Akinomaki 40,666]

The full results are now on the site, downloadable as exec files https://www.wanpaku.or.jp/tournament/result2024.html

The page lists the team result as last year's, but it is correct - it's no extra competition, just the teams with the most points in the individual competition

For primary school, there is still a multitude of national tournaments: next the 21st National Youth sumo championships on Oct. 20th, the post-Corona renewed tournament in the Tachikawa Tachihi Arena (thus girls can compete), but still counted as the old event, which had no individual competitions.

Finally the All Japan primary school championship tournament for determine the 3 primary school yokozuna, together with the All Japan in the kokugikan on Dec.1st.

Edited August 12, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki 40,666]

On 04/08/2024 at 23:23, Bunbukuchagama said:

Should rather be Evgeny Gritskov (Евгений Грицков) or something close to it. 

Євген Грицков it is, a search with Сумо and your proposal produced a find: https://dumka.media/rus/sport/1723122886-harkovskiy-podrostok-vzyal-zoloto-na-sorevnovaniyah-v-yaponii

-> Евгений Грицков, Evgeny Gritskov - the original source https://t.me/KharkivSportCity list him as Євген Грицков, my Yevgen was closer, Gritzkow is the German way to write his name

Edited August 12, 2024 by Akinomaki

[Koorifuu 1,003]

@Bunbukuchagama can correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect it's fundamentally the same name but in different languages, like i.e  Peter, Petr, Pyotr.

As in Євген (usually romanised to Yevhen, apparently) is the Ukrainian form of the name whilst Евгений (Evgeny) is the Russian form.

Edited August 12, 2024 by Koorifuu

[Bunbukuchagama 739]

1 hour ago, Koorifuu said:

it's fundamentally the same name but in different languages, like i.e  Peter, Petr, Pyotr

Yes, it is. Євген is specifically Ukrainian, Евгений из Russian (and much more common in general).