Kotoyūki
| 琴勇輝 一巖 Kotoyūki Kazuyoshi |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Yūki Enomoto April 2, 1991 Kagawa Prefecture, Japan |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 176 kg (388 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Sadogatake |
| Current rank | see below |
| Debut | March, 2008 |
| Highest rank | Sekiwake (May, 2016) |
| Championships | Jūryō (1) |
| Special Prizes | 1 (Outstanding Performance) |
| Gold Stars | 1 (Harumafuji) |
| * Up to date as of Feb 27, 2017. | |
Kotoyūki Kazuyoshi (琴勇輝 一巖?) (born April 2, 1991 as Yūki Enomoto) is a sumo wrestler from Japan. He made his professional debut in 2008. After being a regular jūryō wrestler who made occasional trips to the top makuuchi division for a few years, through 2015 he has become a top division regular. He has one gold star for defeating a yokozuna. His highest rank to date is sekiwake. He wrestles for Sadogatake stable.
Born in Marugame in Kagawa prefecture, Enomoto was interested in sumo from a very young age and joined a sumo club in his area. None of the junior high schools in his area had a sumo club, so he asked an acquaintance who was a sumo coach to help him to transfer to a school in Shōzu that did have a sumo club. In high school as a first year he participated in a Shikoku-wide amateur sumo tournament and in the young men's individual class he took the championship. He also made the best sixteen in an inter-high school competition and was chosen as one representative for the high school Japan team in an international competition. His successes in high school and amateur sumo garnered him invitations from many sumo stables, but after participating in a training camp with Sadogatake stable while the stable was in Kyūshū for the November tournament, he made his decision and dropped out of high school in that same year to join this stable.
Enomoto first stepped onto the pro sumo dohyō in May 2008. Though he was born in Marugame City, he chose to list Shōzu, where he went to junior and senior high school, and where he got most of his sumo experience, as his hometown. He found success early on, recording five straight tournaments with five or more wins out of seven bouts until he finally had his first losing tournament in his makushita division debut in March 2009. After this tournament he changed his ring name to his current one. He struggled in makushita, posting more losing tournaments then winning one over the next ten tournaments before finally finding his stride in the January 2011 tournament. From this tournament record of 5-2 at makushita 45, he would score two consecutive winning tournaments, which would propel him for the first time into the salaried ranks of the jūryō division. He was the first wrestler from Kagawa prefecture since 2004 to reach sekitori status and the first ever from Shōzu. Though he lost his first four jūryō bouts, he bounced back winning nine bouts, seven of them consecutively to post a very strong debut record of 9-6. He had two winning tournaments following this, and when he was ranked jūryō 1 for the March 2012 tournament he needed only a winning tournament to attain promotion to the top-tier makuuchi division, but with stiff competition at this level he had a 6–9 record. In the following May tournament, though he managed a 4–1 start, on the sixth day, in a loss to Takarafuji he fell off the dohyō and injured his right knee, forcing him miss four days. He came back for the last five days, but only had one more win. He was back in form for the next tournament however, and in this and the following tournament posted consecutive 9-6 records. In the second of these tournaments, he won eight of those nine wins on the last eight days of the tournament. This earned him makuuchi promotion for the first time in his career for the January 2013 tournament.
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