Ura Kazuki
| Ura Kazuki | |
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| 宇良 和輝 | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Kazuki Ura June 22, 1992 Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 113 kg (249 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Kise |
| University | Kwansei Gakuin University |
| Current rank | see below |
| Debut | March 2015 |
| Highest rank | Maegashira 10 (May 2017) |
| Championships | 1 (Jonokuchi) |
| * Up to date as of May 1, 2017. | |
Ura Kazuki, (born 22 June 1992 as Kazuki Ura) is a sumo wrestler born in Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan. After winning a gold medal in sumo at the 2013 World Combat Games, he made his professional debut in 2015, wrestling with the Kise stable and he won the jonokuchi division championship in his first tournament. He reached the top makuuchi division in March 2017. He is currently at his highest rank, of maegashira 10, in May 2017.
While attending the School of Education, Kwansei Gakuin University, Ura was a member of the sumo club. He competed in sumo at the 2013 World Combat Games at Saint Petersburg, Russia, winning a gold medal in the lightweight division. In February 2015, he announced his intention to enter the Kise stable as a professional sumo, and after his first bouts in March, made his tournament debut in the May basho, winning the jonokuchi division.
He made rapid progress through the lower ranks, and achieved the rank of jūryō prior to the May 2016 tournament, and in recognition of Ura becoming the first among their alumni to achieve the rank of sekitori (the two highest divisions in sumo), he was given a keshō-mawashi by Kwansei Gakuin University. In that tournament, he was noted for having used a rare winning technique (kimarite), koshinage, a hip throw. At the January 2017 tournament, he employed another rare winning technique, using tasukizori (reverse backward body drop) to win his bout against fellow jūryō wrestler, Amakaze. Since 1955 when winning techniques were first announced, this was the first recorded instance of this kimarite being used in sumo's upper divisions.
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