Hasegawa Katsuhiro
| Hasegawa Katsutoshi | |
|---|---|
| 長谷川 勝敏 | |
| Personal information | |
| Born | Katsutoshi Hasegawa July 20, 1944 Hokkaidō, Japan |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 127 kg (280 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Sadogatake |
| Record | 678-577-15 |
| Debut | March 1960 |
| Highest rank | Sekiwake (January 1969) |
| Retired | May, 1976 |
| Championships | 1 (Makuuchi) 1 (Juryo) 1 (Makushita) |
| Special Prizes | Outstanding Performance (3) Fighting Spirit (3) Technique(2) |
| Gold Stars | 9 Sadanoyama (2) (2) Kashiwado (2) Kitanofuji (2) Wajima |
| * Up to date as of August 2012. | |
Hasegawa Katsutoshi (born 20 July 1944) is a former sumo wrestler from Sorachi, Hokkaidō, Japan. He began his professional career in 1960, reaching the top division in 1965. He won eight special prizes for his achievements in tournaments and earned nine gold stars for defeating yokozuna. He won a tournament championship or yūshō in 1972 and was a runner-up in two other tournaments. His highest rank was sekiwake. He retired in 1976 and became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association, working as a coach at Sadogatake stable until his retirement in 2009.
Hasegawa joined professional sumo in March 1960 at the age of 15, recruited by the former sekiwake Kotonishiki. Unusually, he fought under his own surname for his entire career (he is the only top division wrestler from Sadogatake stable not to have adopted a shikona or fighting name with the prefix "Koto"). He made the jūryō division in January 1963 and was promoted to the top makuuchi division two years later in January 1965.
Hasegawa quickly rose up the ranks, defeating his first yokozuna () in September 1965 and earning his first special prize, for Technique. In the following tournament in November he made his debut in the titled san'yaku ranks at komusubi. He was runner-up to yokozuna Taihō in the May 1967 tournament. He reached sekiwake for the first time in January 1969 and held the rank for eight straight tournaments.
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