Chiyoōtori
| Chiyoōtori Yūki | |
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| 千代鳳 祐樹 | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Kinoshita Yūki October 11, 1992 Shibushi, Kagoshima, Japan |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 170 kg (370 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Kokonoe |
| Current rank | see below |
| Debut | May, 2008 |
| Highest rank | Komusubi (May, 2014) |
| Championships | 1 (Jūryō) 1 (Jonidan) |
| * Up to date as of June 26, 2017. | |
Chiyoōtori Yūki (born 11 October 1992 as Yūki Kinoshita) is a sumo wrestler from Shibushi, Kagoshima, Japan. Making his professional debut in 2008, he reached the komusubi rank in 2014. He is the younger brother of fellow professional sumo wrestler Chiyomaru.
As a youngster and student, Kinoshita was active in swimming and also judo, in which he has a black belt. However, he also participated in sumo less regularly, and in his sixth year of primary school he reached the best sixteen in a national children's amateur sumo tournament. He had visited a Kokonoe stable event in Kyūshū in his primary school years, and his older brother Chiyomaru was already a wrestler with the stable, so upon his graduation from middle school an invitation was arranged through intermediaries and he joined his brother as a member of this stable.
He joined Kokonoe stable in May 2008. He did well from this period, recording all winning tournaments. However, in November of this year he suffered a cruciate ligaments rupture. This serious injury forced him to miss most of the next several tournaments, but he was back in full form by the July 2009 tournament. He was back to his winning ways and after a 6-1 in his first tournament back in the jonokuchi division, he took the championship in the following September 2009 tournament in jonidan with a 7-0 perfect record. It is a tradition that Kokonoe wrestlers adopt a ring name on their promotion to sandanme division. Kinoshita did this, and also following the additional Kokonoe tradition that its wrestler's ring names begin with Chiyo, he took the ring name of Chiyoōtori. He would struggle for a year and a half in sandanme but on his promotion to the third division makushita in January 2011 he found his stride, taking mostly winning tournaments.
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