{"id":1348918,"date":"2026-01-25T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukrainian-sumo-wrestler-daniil-yavgusishin-won-the-hatsu-basho-tournament-and-the-emperors-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:12:41","slug":"ukrainian-sumo-wrestler-daniil-yavgusishin-won-the-hatsu-basho-tournament-and-the-emperors-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukrainian-sumo-wrestler-daniil-yavgusishin-won-the-hatsu-basho-tournament-and-the-emperors-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian sumo wrestler Daniil Yavgusishin won the Hatsu Basho tournament and the Emperor’s Cup."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian sumo wrestler Danylo Yavgusishin, known by the ring name Arata Aonishiki, won the Hatsu Basho, the first of six grand sumo tournaments in Japan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

LB.ua<\/a> writes about this.<\/p>\n

In the tournament’s 15th bout, the Ukrainian ozeki defeated Kotozakura, bringing his total to 12 victories. Meanwhile, sumo wrestler Atamifuji also won, matching Yavgusishin’s record, so the title would be decided in a playoff.<\/p>\n

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In a head-to-head battle that lasted 13 seconds, Aonishiki emerged victorious. Thus, Daniil Yavgusishin became the victor of the Hatsu Basho and received the Emperor’s Cup.<\/p>\n

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The Vinnytsia native became the third European to win the Hatsu Basho. The previous winners were Estonian Baruto in 2012 and Georgian Tochinoshina in 2018.<\/p>\n

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As a reminder, in November 2025, Yavgusishin won the Kyushu Basho and achieved the rank of ozeki, the second-highest rank in sumo. To achieve the highest rank, yokozuna, Aonishiki needs to win another makuuchi tournament. If successful, he could become the first European yokozuna in sumo history. <\/p>\n

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Ukrainian sumo wrestler Danylo Yavgusishin, known by the ring name Arata Aonishiki, won the Hatsu Basho, the first of six grand sumo tournaments in Japan. LB.ua writes about this. In the tournament’s 15th bout, the Ukrainian ozeki defeated Kotozakura, bringing his total to 12 victories. Meanwhile, sumo wrestler Atamifuji also won, matching Yavgusishin’s record, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1348914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1348918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1348914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}