Interhigh 2025

[Akinomaki]

The countdown board for the Chugoku region interhigh was installed and started on the 22nd, 100 days before the event. Sumo is held in Tottori city, from Aug. 8th till 10th. https://www.koukousoutai.com/2025soutai/event/index.php?xpref=2#event201

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Edited April 25, 2025 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki]

On 26/04/2025 at 00:39, Akinomaki said:

Sumo is held in Tottori city, from Aug. 8th till 10th. https://www.koukousoutai.com/2025soutai/event/index.php?xpref=2#event201

the pairings for the preliminaries are on site now - individuals: https://www.koukousoutai.com/2025soutai/configbox/tottori/kojinsenyosentaisenhyou.pdf

Interhigh preparations at Kibogaoka high (Fukuoka)

[Akinomaki]

11 minutes ago, Katooshu said:

Any word of whether this will be streamed?

Interhigh TV always streams it, the detailed schedule is already on site: https://inhightv.sportsbull.jp/competition/11

Maybe not all of the preliminaries will be shown though

[Akinomaki]

No videos of the stream remain (openly) on the Interhigh TV site, (much) later they should appear in the archive

Official results and photos are again on the sponsor site, Yomiuri shimbun https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/interhigh/result/2025/summer/216/

at  https://zutto-sports.com/inter-high2019-sumo#toc13

and the official record site https://kirokukensaku.net/0IH25/discipline_120_20250809.html

The tournament graph for the decider for the individuals final tournament of the best 32 https://www.koukousoutai.com/2025soutai/articlebox/tottori/鳥取市/20250808164417.pdf

Kotomitsuki II, Saitama Sakae's Tamiya

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Yehor won all 3 preliminary bouts, looks like he might get a sdTD qualification in this his 3rd year (Edit: maybe not, he has to beat Tottori's Chuluunbaatar first)

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Yomiuri had an article about his preparations last month

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4 Mongolians in the decider for the best 32, from Kaiyo high, Tottori Johoku and 2 from Meitoku Gijuku

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More pics

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Yomiuri gallery http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/slides/s/2025inhighsumo/

Edited August 8, 2025 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki]

My internet went down at the start of the final tournament and my recording broke up. Now I'll have to wait for a week or so to get the archive videos, and they are tedious to watch, because they split it into many parts. No pics now either, I have them only on my main PC.

No tsukedashi for Yehor, when I saw that he got local ace Chuluunbaatar as hurdle into the final tournament, I gave up on him. The Tottori Johoku Mongolian is the only foreigner to reach the semifinals, with the sdTD qualification.

High school yokozuna is Sawada from Meguro Nichidai attached high school, winning in the final against Saitama Sakae's MatsuNagamatsu. 

The last sdTD goes to Kaida from Adachi Shinden.

One Tokyo only sf, one Saitama vs. Tottori 

https://kirokukensaku.net/0IH25/detail_20250809_12002020800.html

Kotomitsuki II lost in the qf, but there is yet the kokuspo to get to sdTD. Sawada has the chance to upgrade to msTD at the All Japan in December.

Edit: the autocorrect on my mobile is really annoying. First I get sf changed to something else, which I noticed, but next qf was changed into sf, which the thing had just learned, and that went unnoticed at first 

Edited August 9, 2025 by Akinomaki

[Akinomaki]

2 new channels with full coverage of the individuals tournament today

youtube.com/@陽つぶ子/search?query="令和7年度全国高等学校総合体育大会インターハイ相撲選手権大会"

youtube.com/@相撲の家庭教師·スポーツトレー/search?query="2025年インターハイ相撲"

High school yokozuna Sawada (3rd year)

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final against 2nd year Nagamatsu, the younger brother of Wakaikazuchi - he wants to join his brother, in the future = he won't use the sdTD this time and try again in 3rd year

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qf loser Tamiya (2nd year)

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1st round of the final tournament - Tottori's Asada lost

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[Akinomaki]

22 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

Sawada has the chance to upgrade to msTD at the All Japan in December.

3rd year Ikki Sawada 澤田 一輝  (176cm, 140kg) - so far his name was given with the simple version 沢 of Sawa - is from Misato, Saitama, has started with sumo in 4th grade, trained at the Kashiwa and Iruma sumo youth clubs, 3rd at a Kanto tournament and best 32 at a national select tournament are his best results so far. The sumo club of  Meguro Nichidai attached high school consists of only him and another 3rd year. He has declared that he won't go on to Nichidai, but use his tsukedashi - first trying for the best 8 at the All Japan to follow Fukuzaki as  msTD.

the tsukedashi o

only heavily bandaged Kaida is also 3rd year - no word from him yet about plans to use the sdTD chance

Tamiya's loss to him in the qf

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the other 2 are 2nd years

Chulun's loss to Nagamatsu in the sf

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the final 

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[Akinomaki]

Tottori Johoku won their 6th title, after 3 years again, beating Kanazawa Kogyo 4-1 in the final, starting with a loss. Kanazawa defeated Saitama Sakae in the sf 4-1. https://kirokukensaku.net/0IH25/discipline_120_20250810.html

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They won their sf 3-2 against Toyama's Takaoka Koryo

[Kintamayama]

So, all of these guys are high school students??

[Akinomaki]

More impressions from today - the main: Hakuho was watching

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finals first round, a win for Kurobane high

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the final - the decisive win for 3-1

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more winner team photos

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team tournament till the sf

the final

 

the lower categories - 80kg

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winner in 100kg: the younger brother of sumo traitor Hanada, the ex-amateur yokozuna

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[Yamanashi]

6 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

winner in 100kg: the younger brother of sumo traitor Hanada, the ex-amateur yokozuna

An odd snapshot -- looks like he's headed for a Piledriver.

[Kintamayama]

19 hours ago, Akinomaki said:

 100kg: the younger brother of sumo traitor Hanada, the ex-amateur yokozuna

The Sumo Traitor: He chose the NFL over a promising career in Sumo and is currently chasing his dream in America. Hidetora Hanada (23, Colorado State University), is a former member of the Nippon Sport Science University sumo team, was the 2020 amateur Yokozuna, and is currently aiming to play in the NFL as an American football player.

This was the first time his older brother, who has been living in the United States since last year, had come to Japan to cheer him on, and he turned that into motivation, saying, "I thought I'd give it my all today." Watching an amateur sumo tournament for the first time since moving to the United States, He (the sumo traitor..) commented, "It's been a while. I miss the unique thrill of the Inter-High." He also praised his younger brother, saying, "I rushed over from the States because I wanted to cheer him on for the last time. I didn't realize he'd grown so big, so I was surprised. It was the culmination of his efforts, and I was so proud of him." The Traitor won a total of seven titles during his high school years, including the World Junior Championships, but in the Inter-High School Championships, he was defeated by Byambasuren (current Yokozuna Houshouryuu) of Nippon Sport Science University Kashiwa in his first year and finished in the top eight, lost to Suzuki Yuto (current Makushita Fujinoyama) in his second year and finished in the top 16, and in his third year he was defeated in the semi-finals by Kusano Naoya (current Makuuchi Kusano) of Buntoku in his third year and came in third, so he never won a championship. "I wasn't able to win, so I'm jealous that my younger brother did," he said with a laugh.

Traitor!

Edited August 11, 2025 by Kintamayama

[hypnoowl]

29 minutes ago, Kintamayama said:

Traitor!

Boo!

 

[Yamanashi]

9 hours ago, hypnoowl said:

Boo!

 

"The Wampaku of pu-tressence!!"

[Akinomaki]

The videos from the event are now in the archive on Interhigh TV https://inhightv.sportsbull.jp/competition/11

[Akinomaki]

8 members of the winning Tottori Johoku team (18 club members) - those with medals from team or individuals, 7 were in the team yusho photos - Chulun not, reported the yusho to the governor of Tottori today. It was the 2nd yusho at home after 2016

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- here they won against Kanazawa Kogyo, who won the next national tournaments

Captain Inoue: we'll aim for the yusho at the kokuspo as well

news clips

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https://news.ntv.co.jp/category/society/nk0dfa4c700fa748d388c77b9409200ee8

 

Edited September 11, 2025 by Akinomaki