List of years in sumo

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The following is a list of year in sumo articles listed in chronological order from the most recent. Each gives an overview of the happenings in sumo for each year listed. The highlights below refer only to top division championships.

2010s

2017 in sumo - Kisenosato is promoted to yokozuna

2016 in sumo - Kotoshogiku and Goeido win the first championships by Japanese-born wrestlers in ten years

2015 in sumo - Hakuhō wins a record-breaking 33rd top division championship

2014 in sumo - Kakuryū wins first championship and is promoted to yokozuna

2013 in sumo - Sokokurai becomes the first expelled wrestler to be reinstated

2012 in sumo - Baruto and Kyokutenhō win their first championships. Harumafuji becomes yokozuna

2011 in sumo - A match-fixing scandal leads to the cancellation of the March tournament

2010 in sumo - Asashōryū retires after an alleged nightclub brawl, several wrestlers are suspended for illegal baseball gambling, Hakuhō goes on record postwar winning streak

2000s

2009 in sumo - Harumafuji's 1st championship, Hakuho has 3 championships and all-time record of 86 wins out of 90 in one year

2008 in sumo - Asashōryū returns, Kotoōshū first European champion, marijuana scandals begin

2007 in sumo - Hakuho is promoted to yokozuna, Asashōryū is first suspended yokozuna, Tokitsukaze stable hazing scandal

2006 in sumo - Asashōryū's general dominance continues, Hakuho wins first championship

2005 in sumo - Asashōryū is first to sweep all championships in his "grand slam" year

2004 in sumo - Asashōryū just misses all championship sweep, Kaiō wins 5th and last championship

2003 in sumo - Takanohana and Musashimaru retire, Asashōryū debuts as yokozuna

2002 in sumo - Takanohana out most of year due to injury, Asashōryū wins first of many championships

2001 in sumo - number of wrestlers win championships in spite of injury, Kotomitsuki wins his only and all 3 special prizes

2000 in sumo - 3 wrestlers win championships for first time, Akebono wins his last

1990s

1999 in sumo - Musashimaru dominates, Chiyotaikai and Dejima win their first championships

1998 in sumo - between them, the Futagoyama brothers dominate, Kotonishiki becomes only wrestler to win two championships at maegashira rank

1997 in sumo - Futagoyama wrestlers continue championship dominance

1996 in sumo - Takanohana takes 4 championships, and stablemate Takanonami one for a near year sweep

1995 in sumo - Takanohana takes 4 championships to dominate; his brother Wakanohana takes 1

1994 in sumo - Musashimaru wins 1st championship, Takanohana achieves necessary criteria for promotion to yokozuna

1993 in sumo - Akebono becomes first foreign-born yokozuna, has most dominant year at 4 championships, Futagoyama brothers take one each

1992 in sumo - Asahifuji retires leaving no yokozuna for the next eight months, championships are split Takahanada* 2, Akebono 2, and 1 each for Konishiki and Mitoizumi

1991 in sumo - Hokutoumi and Asahifuji win their last championships, Kotonishiki wins his first, Kirishima and Kotofuji win their only championships

1990 in sumo - championships split at two each between Ōzeki Asahifuji, and yokozunas Hokutoumi and Chiyonofuji, the second win would be Chiyonofuji's last

*Takahanada would later become the 2nd Takanohana.

1980s

1989 in sumo Chiyonofuji and Hokutoumi vie for dominance at three and two championships respectively, Konishiki gets first tournament win

1988 in sumo Asahifuji has first win, Chiyonofuji takes the last four tournaments and record for longest bout winning streak in modern sumo history - later surpassed by Hakuho

1987 in sumo - Hokutoumi and Onokuni are promoted to yokozuna; Futahaguro is forced to retire

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List of years in sumo Wikipedia

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