Takahama Tatsurō
| Hamanishiki Tatsurō | |
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| 濵錦 竜郎 | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Tatsurō Takahama November 23, 1976 Kumamoto, Japan |
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 127.5 kg (281 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Oitekaze |
| Record | 360-365-30 |
| Debut | March 1999 |
| Highest rank | Maegashira 11 (March, 2002) |
| Retired | March, 2012 |
| * Up to date as of Feb 2012. | |
Hamanishiki Tatsurō (born November 23, 1976 as Tatsurō Takahama) is a former sumo wrestler from Kumamoto, Japan. A former amateur champion, he made his professional debut in 1999. His highest rank was maegashira 11, which he reached in 2002. He was mostly ranked in the makushita and sandanme divisions from 2005 until his retirement in 2012. He became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association upon his retirement and was the head coach of Kasugayama stable from 2012 until 2016.
Takahama practised amateur sumo at Nihon University and joined the professional sport in March 1999. He made his debut alongside Kotomitsuki and Takamisakari. He began wrestling under his own name but upon promotion to the second highest jūryō division in July 2000 he adopted the shikona or fighting name of Hamanishiki.
After five tournaments in jūryō he made his debut in the top makuuchi division in May 2001. However he was unable to progress higher than the lower maegashira ranks and fell back to the second division in September 2002. In November 2004, ranked at the very bottom of jūryō, he produced a disastrous 1-14 record and was demoted to the third makushita division, where he had begun his career. He reverted to his own surname in November 2005 but this did little to change his fortunes. He missed two tournaments through injury in November 2006 and January 2007 and was demoted once more, to the fourth sandanme division.
He managed to return to the makushita division after a good 6-1 performance in January 2008, and he followed up with a 5-2 score in March and 4-3 in May, which took him to makushita 26 for the July 2008 tournament, his highest rank since September 2006, before his injury. He returned to the Hamanishiki name in July 2009.
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