Kotomitsuki Keiji

Kotomitsuki Keiji, Japanese琴 光 喜 启 司, prop, Keiji Tamiya ,田 宫 启 司(* April 11, 1976 in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture) is a former Japanese sumo wrestler.

Kotomitsuki joined in March 1999 from the Hochschulsumō in professional sports. As a former student of Nihon University, he had been able to win 27 titles in amateur sport before. His biggest international success was the amateur world title in the heavyweight division, where he was able to win as head of the Japanese team in 1999 against the German Jörg Brümmer.

In May 2000, he had after the rise in the Makuuchi division refrain from participation in the tournament due to a training injury on ankle and therefore immediately rose again. Since November 2000 he is a permanent fixture in the top division of the Japanese sumo. In his first basho he made an outstanding 13-2 kachi- koshi - and won all three special prizes, which also earned him an immediate promotion on the sekiwake rank.

There Kotomitsuki was its high level despite several top results, as their tournament victory in Aki - Basho been most outstanding 2001 may apply, long time constant, so that he did not reach a higher rank, and at times slipped out again from the Sanyakurängen. Despite the vicissitudes of his success Kotomitsuki presented but always for most of his colleagues, a not to be underestimated opponent dar.

In 2007 he finally succeeded, the reputation of the "eternal sekiwake " store: After two good results - even if almost only against lower Maegashiras - Natsu Basho - (12-3 ) and Nagoya Basho (13-2, special prices Kanto Sho and Gino -Sho ) was Kotomitsuki promoted to ozeki on 25 July 2007. Thus, a Japanese ozeki was appointed after 5 years.

Since he was involved in illegal betting and had denied in an interview with the Sumo Association, he was expelled in June 2010 from the Sumoverband.