Akinomaki 39,595 Posted August 21 (edited) On Sept, 7th and 8th in Krotoszyn, Poland - the 2020 world championships were scheduled for there, postponed to 2021 and cancelled. The 3rd All Japan weight division championships on May 12th at the Yasukuni shrine were the preliminaries for team Japan - in the focus was light weight winner Kazuki Wauke 和宇慶一騎, active police officer from Okinawa, age 31, Kyushu Institute of Information Sciences graduate o the other seniors from corporate sumo For Heavy weight Kousei Takeuchi 竹内宏晟 (25), who works for Shima city, his hometown https://www.city.shima.mie.jp/kakuka/seisakusuishin/hisyo/shichoshitsu/shicho_no_ugoki/2024/2024_5/6652.html Light heavy weight from the Sodick sumo club, world championships and games veteran Hayato Miwa (29) https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000005.000142070.html open weight: 2023 amateur yokozuna Shun Ikeda (22), now also at Sodick middle weight (2nd from the left): defending champion Kazuhiko Ryuyama, who works for Setouchi town http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2024/05/13/kiji/20240513s00005000235000c.html the juniors http://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2024/05/13/kiji/20240513s00005000211000c.html light weight Norifumi Tajima, Gifu agric., middle weigh Jonoshin Mitsuhashi, Tottori Johoku, heavy weight Haruto Asada, Wakayama Minoshima 2nd year and Nishide for open weight women: o o all team members Edited August 22 by Akinomaki 2 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Koorifuu 867 Posted August 22 6 hours ago, Akinomaki said: Jonoshin Mihashi At risk of being wrong, but reading the katakana, isn't it Mitsuhashi? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
I am the Yokozuna 173 Posted August 22 17 hours ago, Akinomaki said: Kazuki Wauke What are the chances of this given name being Walke, he seems mixed blood. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Koorifuu 867 Posted August 22 1 hour ago, I am the Yokozuna said: What are the chances of this given name being Walke, he seems mixed blood. They'd likely use katakana on his legal name instead of kanji if that had (recent) western origins, but that's not the case. Unless it's already from a few generations back, in which case, admittedly, I don't know how that would work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rokudenashi 290 Posted August 22 (edited) 8 hours ago, I am the Yokozuna said: What are the chances of this given name being Walke, he seems mixed blood. It isn’t, Wauke is a relatively uncommon Okinawan surname, concentrated in Uruma city and the surrounding area https://myoji-yurai.net/sp/searchResult.htm?myojiKanji=和宇慶 Edited August 22 by rokudenashi 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katooshu 3,108 Posted August 26 Wauke had some openweight success as well, and beat now pro Ishizaki (little bro) at the Kokutai last year. I think he made it to the round of 16? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 39,595 Posted September 5 Team Japan left for Poland yesterday at 22:50h from Narita o The 2nd day with adult competition is day 1 of the basho, so there will be not much interest, neither on the forum, nor in the Japanese media (and usually the juniors get the medals) http://www.ifs-sumo.org/ live streams should appear here https://www.youtube.com/user/sumo5931/streams - nothing on schedule yet 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 39,595 Posted September 6 (edited) On 05/09/2024 at 07:41, Akinomaki said: live streams should appear here https://www.youtube.com/user/sumo5931/streams - nothing on schedule yet Like I thought, local sumo will provide a live stream https://www.youtube.com/@SumoPoland-qy7lg/streams - if there will be one with English comments remains to be seen Edited September 6 by Akinomaki Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 39,595 Posted September 6 Day 2 Apparently a private channel intends to provide English commentary - day 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 39,595 Posted September 8 (edited) The English commentary stream not that it gives more information, but the proper hall announcements of Katrina Watts are less disturbed by the commentators - everything else is just what you see anyway - no on screen information Day 1 except the Japanese ambassador, nobody cared to talk in English Edited September 8 by Akinomaki Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 39,595 Posted September 8 As usual, the Japanese team gets the gold medals on day 1, all 8 juniors won individual gold medals, plus one each for both team events going to Japan o 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 39,595 Posted September 9 (edited) As expected, nothing for day 2 in the Japanese media, though the team won the gold medal, the women silver and open weight gold for Ikeda. The IFS linked the day 1 Polish stream, else has no results. A bit more information are in the auto-generated subs from the Polish streams, which appear a day later. The highlight from day 1, in clear English on the English stream auto-subs, is from the speech of IFS president Minami: <01:48:52.320> it is great hope of international small Federation to bring the peace to the world with power of smoke today <01:49:16.870> Edited September 9 by Akinomaki 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Akinomaki 39,595 Posted September 9 (edited) 5 hours ago, Akinomaki said: As expected, nothing for day 2 in the Japanese media, though the team won the gold medal, the women silver and open weight gold for Ikeda. The IFS linked the day 1 Polish stream, else has no results. In the late news, Sponichi reported the medals, also bronze for Miwa and Takeuchi in the 2 heaviest categories. Wauke lost the first bout and later also the repêchage, he had a silver medal in 2010 in the juniors - now gold with the team also for him. Ryuyama is the only one without medal this time. o o in addition the women won gold medals in the 3 lighter categories and 2 bronze, I guess that will be in the news tomorrow Edit: local news (Kanazawa gakuin-dai location) had it a bit earlier o Edited September 9 by Akinomaki Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
