Kiyokuni Katsuo

Kiyokuni Katsuo (Japanese清 国 胜雄; born November 20, 1941 in Ogachi (today: Yuzawa ), Akita Prefecture as Tadao Satō (佐藤 忠雄) ) is a former Japanese sumo wrestlers and sports official. Kiyokuni is an uncle of wrestler Tamanoshima.

Kiyokuni was already as a teenager, a keen Judoka. Through a schoolmate who was a nephew of the former yokozuna Terukuni, which sought at this time for his young wrestlers stall Isegahama - Beya, he could not imagine this and was invited to Tokyo and taken there under contract. He denied in September 1956 as Wakaikuni Tadao (若い 國 忠雄) his first official battle. In January 1962 he took the name Umenosato Tadao (梅ノ里 忠雄) and in May the name Kiyokuni Tadao (清 国 忠雄). He was a comparatively lighter wrestler - he weighed at that time less than 100 kilograms - and was only in 1963 become the sekitori, ie reach juryo Division. Thereafter, however, enough for him three basho to break through into the Makuuchi division.

In March 1964, Kiyokuni, even if only temporarily, sekiwake. In May, he took the name Kiyokuni Katsuo, joined in March 1965 back to Kiyokuni Tadao and in November 1967 back to the name Kiyokuni Katsuo. He hovered in the years between the lower and the upper ranks sanyaku maegashira positions until he found his form from about 1968 and in July 1969 even reached its ( single ) tournament victory. Then he was appointed Ozeki and could hold that title until his retirement in late 1974. In total, he completed 62 tournaments in the Makuuchi and won three awards for special achievement ( Shukun -Sho ) and four technicians prices ( Gino -Sho ). Following his wrestlers career, he took over in 1977 his old Ringer stable than Oyakata ( equerry ) and was elected in 1978 in the director board of the Sumōverbands.

In September 2004, the news magazine Shukan Post has referred to him as it reported on alleged doping and prearranged fights. The association stated that an investigation had not confirmed the claims of the magazine. Isegahama Oyakata, who had also referred in the magazine today's Japanese wrestler as "a bunch of sissies ," his directorship was relieved.

• Sumo Wrestler (Japan)
• Japanese
• Born in 1941
• Man
• Pseudonym