Hakurozan
| Hakurozan Yūta | |
|---|---|
| 白露山 佑太 | |
| Personal information | |
| Born | Batraz Feliksovich Boradzov February 6, 1982 Russia |
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 137 kg (302 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Kitanoumi, formerly Hatachiyama |
| Record | 233-218-0 |
| Debut | May 2002 |
| Highest rank | Maegashira 2 (July 2006) |
| Retired | September, 2008 |
| * Up to date as of September 2008. | |
Hakurozan Yūta (born February 6, 1982 as Batraz Feliksovich Boradzov Russian: Батраз Феликсович Борадзов, in Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia–Alania in the Russian Federation) is a former sumo wrestler. The highest rank he reached was maegashira 2. His older brother is also a former sumo wrestler, under the name of Rohō of Ōtake stable. In September 2008 both were dismissed from professional sumo after testing positive for cannabis.
Hakurozan began wrestling at the age of 14, winning the world junior championship aged 16. He started sumo aged 18, winning the Moscow over 100 kg championship.
He came to Japan in February 2002 with his brother. They had intended to join the same stable, but sumo regulations limit the number of foreign wrestlers to one per stable, so Batraz joined Hatachiyama stable while Soslan entered Ōtake stable. As with his brother, his shikona contains the character 露, which can mean Russia. Hatachiyama stable folded upon the death of its stablemaster, former ōzeki Hokutenyū, and Hakurozan joined the Kitanoumi stable.
Hakurozan fought his first bout in May 2002, rising to jūryō in September 2004, and makuuchi in July 2005. After a 10-5 result in May 2006 he reached maegashira 2, but a disastrous 2-13 the following tournament took him down to maegashira 10. He clung on to his top division status with an 8-7 mark at maegashira 14 in January 2007, but a poor 5-10 record in March meant he was demoted back to jūryō for the May 2007 tournament. He achieved nine wins there, which was enough to earn promotion to the top division in July. However, hampered by chronic knee problems, he could manage only three wins in the November 2007 tournament and was demoted to the second division once again. Scraping by with two 8-7 marks in the first two tournaments of 2008, he returned to makuuchi at maegashira 15 in May. Once again he could not maintain his top division ranking, only managing to win four matches.
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